Ahmad El-Sharif
Biographic Data
| ID | 5191944 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ahmad El-Sharif |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ahmad |
| FAMILY NAME | El-Sharif |
| SIGNATURE | EL-SHARIF A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Al al-Bayt University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7567-5147 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
When tanks speak
This study examines the Royal Tank Museum in Amman, Jordan, as a multimodal spatial text using a social semiotic framework. It explores how military displays are used as semiotic tools to convey national and educational narratives through the Museum’s architectural layout, spatial organization, and curatorial choices. The study investigates the representational meanings expressed by all the Museum exhibits by focusing on “participant” roles (repr…
How binding and bonding communicate interpersonal meanings in a children’s museum to address Jordan’s energy and water challenges
Museums’ structures, spaces, and exhibits are understood as semiotic resources that make spatial texts that communicate a discourse defined by the authorities of the museum or its curators. The current study follows a social-semiotic approach in analyzing the spatial discourse of the Children’s Museum in Amman. It demonstrates that interpersonal meanings are semiotically communicated to children visitors in the Museum by firstly establishing a “c…
A Spatial-Semiotic Narrative of the Martyr’s Memorial Site in Amman
Social semiotic approaches to spatial discourse analysis are employed to analyse the predefined arrangements of spaces and semiotic resources in three-dimensional spaces. These spaces and resources are recognized as spatial-texts that construct a discourse which communicates predefined meanings and ideologies. Aiming to advance the growing interest in spatial semiotics in different socio-cultural contexts, this study scrutinizes the spatial semio…
The Role of Sensory-Motor Experiences and Embodied Cognition in Container-Based Metaphors in the Language of Jordanian Congenitally-Blind Persons
Empirical research accentuates that blind persons’ command of conventional metaphors does not significantly differ from that of the sighted (Sak-Wernicka, 2017; Minervino et. al., 2018). Still, there are several propositions and theories regarding congenitally-blind persons’ ability of perceiving conceptual metaphors that are based on sensory modalities (e.g. UNDERSTANDING IS SEEING). On basis of Conceptual Metaphor Theory and with the aid of a c…
They Are Khawārij of Our Time
This study focuses on a discourse practice that metaphorically associates ISIS with an early Islamic sect known as the Kharijites. This practice constructs a discourse that calls back the background knowledge and memory of historical narratives and experiences that create conceptual frames that communicate meanings of war and atrocities. These meanings were used by King Abdullah II of Jordan to justify Jordan’s military participation against ISIS…
Idealising martyrdom and Jordanian militarism in the Martyr’s Memorial in Amman
Since its inauguration in 1977, the Jordanian Martyr’s Memorial and Museum (called in Arabic Sarh Al-Shaheed) has gained symbolic status as the national army-museum. Its immense and distinctive architectural design, the arrangement of spaces and exhibits allow it to host large collections of exhibits which illustrate the history of modern Jordan, and show the development of its armed forces, and commemorates the sacrifices of the Jordanian soldie…
Metaphors we believe by
Metaphorical language has an ideological function that needs to be investigated. In this paper, I show how some of the prophetic metaphors are deliberately used to represent a well-defined statement of beliefs that constructs Islamic doctrine based on early Arabs' beliefs and experiential knowledge. This statement is represented in terms of metaphors from the metaphoric domains of journeying, the heart, slavery or servitude, brotherhood, shepherd…
Idealising martyrdom and Jordanian militarism in the Martyr’s Memorial in Amman
Since its inauguration in 1977, the Jordanian Martyr’s Memorial and Museum (called in Arabic Sarh Al-Shaheed) has gained symbolic status as the national army-museum. Its immense and distinctive architectural design, the arrangement of spaces and exhibits allow it to host large collections of exhibits which illustrate the history of modern Jordan, and show the development of its armed forces, and commemorates the sacrifices of the Jordanian soldie…
Metaphors we believe by
Metaphorical language has an ideological function that needs to be investigated. In this paper, I show how some of the prophetic metaphors are deliberately used to represent a well-defined statement of beliefs that constructs Islamic doctrine based on early Arabs' beliefs and experiential knowledge. This statement is represented in terms of metaphors from the metaphoric domains of journeying, the heart, slavery or servitude, brotherhood, shepherd…
Idealising martyrdom and Jordanian militarism in the Martyr’s Memorial in Amman
Since its inauguration in 1977, the Jordanian Martyr’s Memorial and Museum (called in Arabic Sarh Al-Shaheed) has gained symbolic status as the national army-museum. Its immense and distinctive architectural design, the arrangement of spaces and exhibits allow it to host large collections of exhibits which illustrate the history of modern Jordan, and show the development of its armed forces, and commemorates the sacrifices of the Jordanian soldie…
A Spatial-Semiotic Narrative of the Martyr’s Memorial Site in Amman
Social semiotic approaches to spatial discourse analysis are employed to analyse the predefined arrangements of spaces and semiotic resources in three-dimensional spaces. These spaces and resources are recognized as spatial-texts that construct a discourse which communicates predefined meanings and ideologies. Aiming to advance the growing interest in spatial semiotics in different socio-cultural contexts, this study scrutinizes the spatial semio…
The Role of Sensory-Motor Experiences and Embodied Cognition in Container-Based Metaphors in the Language of Jordanian Congenitally-Blind Persons
Empirical research accentuates that blind persons’ command of conventional metaphors does not significantly differ from that of the sighted (Sak-Wernicka, 2017; Minervino et. al., 2018). Still, there are several propositions and theories regarding congenitally-blind persons’ ability of perceiving conceptual metaphors that are based on sensory modalities (e.g. UNDERSTANDING IS SEEING). On basis of Conceptual Metaphor Theory and with the aid of a c…
They Are Khawārij of Our Time
This study focuses on a discourse practice that metaphorically associates ISIS with an early Islamic sect known as the Kharijites. This practice constructs a discourse that calls back the background knowledge and memory of historical narratives and experiences that create conceptual frames that communicate meanings of war and atrocities. These meanings were used by King Abdullah II of Jordan to justify Jordan’s military participation against ISIS…
How binding and bonding communicate interpersonal meanings in a children’s museum to address Jordan’s energy and water challenges
Museums’ structures, spaces, and exhibits are understood as semiotic resources that make spatial texts that communicate a discourse defined by the authorities of the museum or its curators. The current study follows a social-semiotic approach in analyzing the spatial discourse of the Children’s Museum in Amman. It demonstrates that interpersonal meanings are semiotically communicated to children visitors in the Museum by firstly establishing a “c…
When tanks speak
This study examines the Royal Tank Museum in Amman, Jordan, as a multimodal spatial text using a social semiotic framework. It explores how military displays are used as semiotic tools to convey national and educational narratives through the Museum’s architectural layout, spatial organization, and curatorial choices. The study investigates the representational meanings expressed by all the Museum exhibits by focusing on “participant” roles (repr…
Sociology (6 works) · Linguistics (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Political science (4 works) · Semiotics (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · History (3 works) · Ideology (3 works) · Law (3 works)