Tariq Elyas
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 652004 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Tariq Elyas |
| NOMBRES | Tariq |
| APELLIDO | Elyas |
| FIRMA | ELYAS T |
| AFILIACIONES | King Abdulaziz University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2898-7391 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 41 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 40 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 40 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2014 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
‘You Gotta Snipe the Ride While You’re Awake’
This article approaches gig driving both as precarious work and a ‘semiotic surveillance mechanism’ that describes how platform interfaces and drivers’ discourse jointly produce the appearance of choice while making labor increasingly visible, calculable, and governable. Empirically, the article analyzes five Arabic-language YouTube videos produced by Egyptian inDrive drivers, supplemented by a rider-app walkthrough conducted in Cairo to contextu…
Modelling Divergent Thinking as a Mediator Between Artificial Intelligence Cognitive Stimulation and EFL Learners’ Cognitive Creativity
Research on AI-supported EFL learning has largely focused on learning outcomes, with limited attention to the cognitive mechanisms underlying creativity and the role of AI experience in shaping this process. This study examined how AI cognitive stimulation relates to EFL learners’ cognitive creativity, as measured by divergent thinking, with attention to the conditioning role of AI experience. Using a quantitative, correlational, cross-sectional …
How Are Saudi Women Represented in the Media? A Multimodal Discourse Analysis of 91st Saudi National Day Videos
The Axiology of Postdigital Memory
Non-discrete care
This article examines Vezeeta, a leading Egyptian medical aggregator app, as a platformized site in which healthcare is reorganised through neoliberal discourse and interface governance. Drawing on Chouliaraki and Fairclough's dialectical-relational (DR) approach to critical discourse analysis, the study foregrounds the principle of non-discreteness, treating discourse as different from – yet inseparable from – material practice and institutional…
Anchored, hybrid, and prestigious
This study investigates the functions and symbolic roles of English in the linguistic landscape of Diyarbakır, a multilingual city in southeastern Türkiye, to show how English circulates across regional urban ecologies. Drawing on 300 signs from three socio-spatially distinct districts, the analysis examines how English is mobilized across language combinations, communicative purposes, and commercial–cultural domains. The findings reveal a patter…
Creativity in Saudi English
This paper explores the Saudi English (SauE) variety in stand-up comedy within the framework of World Englishes (WEs). Data for the study were collected from Saudi stand-up comedy performances available on YouTube. Situated within the field of sociolinguistics, the study employed a qualitative research methodology. NVivo software was utilized to code and analyze patterns across 33 video clips featuring 14 Saudi performances. The study offers valu…
Mediating the algorithm
This study examines how Egyptian inDrive driver-bloggers make platform work intelligible and actionable by producing YouTubed ‘vernacular theorization’, as discourse-in-action. Drawing on six Arabic-language YouTube videos, it analyses how drivers interpret and operationalize key interface cues—such as rider profile labels, ratings and trip history, ‘fair price’ prompts, counter-offer affordances, commission triggers and acceptance/refusal feedba…
The Representation of Women in Egyptian Proverbs
Central to cultural expression, social values, and mainstream ideologies, proverbs encapsulate the collective wisdom of their communities across different themes including gender. In patriarchal societies, the proverbial repertoire is instrumental in maintaining and legitimizing gender hierarchies and normalizing unequal power relations. This study examines the representation of women in Egyptian proverbs through the lens of Feminist Critical Dis…
Interactive resemiotization and Sacred Timespace
The International Fair and Museum of the Prophet’s Biography employs immersive, technologically enabled multimedia to depict socio-historical moments from the life of Prophet Muhammad and his companions in Medina (formerly Yathrib) following the sacred event of hijrah . Informed by this, the study develops a tripartite theoretical framework to analyze these depictions. Data are drawn from selected exhibits, including representations of ancient Me…
Humanitarian disaster and historical injustice
Visualizing ideology
Ideologies are the set of personal and cultural beliefs that an individual or a group holds. Movies, albeit a means of entertainment, have the power to provide a window into the deeply rooted ideologies of different cultures. Considering recent Saudi growth in the film industry, this study aims to shed light on some of the ideological representations portrayed in the Saudi movie Mandoob (Night Courier). The research employs a qualitative data col…
Semiotic and sociolinguistic perspectives on maqāmāt in the Islamic call to prayer
We examine the Islamic call to prayer (adhān) as an embodied, supra-linguistic sonic practice that continually remakes sacred space, time and ethical disposition. Bringing sonic geography into dialogue with Farabian music theory, Touma's analysis of the Arabic tone system and Agha's theory of enregisterment, the study treats the adhān's mode (maqām) as a spatio-temporal and semio-ethical medium. Methodologically, we draw on sound-walkthroughs, si…
Language Education in Saudi Arabia
Film Subtitling’s Challenges and Solutions
The growing cultural consciousness and other needs emerging due to rapid globalization in contemporary times have led to an addition to the available literature in the translation subfield of film subtitling. This has created new challenges for the learners enrolled in translation courses. However, the problem specific to the subtitling of films is relatively less researched, especially concerning learners' perceptions and attitudes towards it. T…
Integrating Technology in Translating Laws from and into Arabic
Soundscapes of the Adhan, the Islamic Call-to-Prayer
Politicizing Covid-19 Lingua in Western and Arab Newspapers
‘I have survived and become more confident’
Promoting professional development of in-service language teachers is key to maintaining education quality. However, extant studies on test-based continuing professional development (CPD) for teachers do not emphasise primary school contexts in China, leading to difficulties in the professional development of this teacher group. Therefore, this paper reports the influences of CPD, based on the Teaching Knowledge Test (TKT) programme for in-servic…
Power and Gender in Saudi Hijazi Proverbs
English Features in Saudi Arabia
Saudi English has recently emerged as a new variety within the World Englishes framework. Many scholars have argued that there is still a gap in the literature and more studies on Saudi English are needed. This study hopes to contribute to the growing research interest in Saudi English studies. The current study aims to identify Saudi English syntactic characteristics classified in relation to noun phrase, verb phrase, prepositional phrase, and c…
Designing English language materials from the perspective of Global Englishes
Driven by a growing body of research on Global Englishes (GE) in English language education, this article showcases the integration of GE into language materials. The goal of the article is to propose a practical way of designing GE-based language materials from a critical ecological perspective. First, we discuss the recontextualization of GE in designing English language materials. Then, we present a critical ecological framework for designing …
Saudi English
A semiotic analysis of images of Saudi Women's rights in caricatures in light of Saudi Women's empowerment
Many caricaturists get the idea for their caricature from current issues of society. The philosophy of the caricature lies in the opinion it presents, which discusses society's goals, culture, and crises, and it is represented in an ironic way to deliver its visual message. The fight for women's rights, inequality, and discrimination are examples of issues concerning Saudi women that have been represented by several caricaturists. Hence, the aim …
Colors and Orientalism as associations
Media representations can have significant influence in shaping opinions and influence public response to certain communities or gender and ethnic representations around the world. Investigating semiotic representation in linguistic discourse as vehicles for meaning in culture has been a fruitful area of research over the past decades. This study explores how stereotypes of women feed into the representations of Saudi women in contemporary press …
English in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
This paper examines the history, politics and discourses around the (teaching of) English language in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA). In addition to discussing the issues and debates around English language, this paper also looks at whether and how English has been localised to suit the local needs and practices. Based on an analysis of English language textbooks used in KSA, the paper shows that Saudi English mostly follows and ascribes to th…
The representation(s) of Saudi women pre-driving era in local newspapers and magazines
The purpose of this paper is to investigate the online representation(s) of Saudi women in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, with respect to the use of language functions. It aims to identify the particular ways in which Saudi women are represented, as well as the ideologies behind the style of representation, specifically focusing on the timeframe of pre-driving era. As a case study, 17 articles from Saudi newspapers and magazines published online be…
Introduction to Gender in Language Education
How Is My English
Due to the spread of the English language in various domains and the fact that English is used as a global language, researchers and educators have started to rethink the models and aims of English language teaching in different settings. From the World Englishes (WE) perspective, this study investigated the attitudes of Chinese university students toward the localized variety of "China English," as well as the students' identity construction and…
A semiotic analysis of images of Saudi Women's rights in caricatures in light of Saudi Women's empowerment
Many caricaturists get the idea for their caricature from current issues of society. The philosophy of the caricature lies in the opinion it presents, which discusses society's goals, culture, and crises, and it is represented in an ironic way to deliver its visual message. The fight for women's rights, inequality, and discrimination are examples of issues concerning Saudi women that have been represented by several caricaturists. Hence, the aim …
Representations of Saudi Male’s Guardianship System and Women’s Freedom to Travel in Western Newspapers
There has been a tremendous interest in the Western media concerning the status of women in Saudi Arabia. The recent reform in women’s rights and guardianship system has Western media gone into motion frenzy. A few research has been done on the representation of Saudi women in Arabic newspapers, but there is a scarce of research in Western English newspapers to date. This article exercises a critical discourse analysis approach to investigate the…
Exploring the Phenomena of Online Dating Platforms Versus Saudi Traditional Spouse Courtship in the 21st Century
While traditional Saudi Arabian courtship is rigidly structured according to a set of Islamic codes of conduct, over the past decade, Saudis have increasingly turned to unconventional means of finding and courting a potential spouse: matrimonial Web sites. This research explores the debate in the literature on computer meditated communication regarding whether online settings provide rich information about other users, as they show that online in…
Saudi English
Investigating the cultural signs and ideological representations in Masameer Saudi cartoon
This study is the first of its own, which provides a semiotic and a discursive analysis of the Saudi animated YouTube sitcom, entitled ‘Masameer’ (the Arabic word for ‘nails-metal spike’). Data were collected from the original YouTube channel of the show (Myrkott) and elaborated on 11 settings which contain three broad categories, namely: traditional treatments, social problems,ideological representation, and gender representations. Cultural sign…
A critical discourse analysis of Saudi Okaz newspaper front-page headlines
The present article aims to probe the language used in one Saudi newspaper, Okaz. It investigates the application of the critical discourse analysis on newspaper texts. Special attention was paid to front-page headlines. This study seeks to examine the textual features and the discursive features of Okaz newspaper. To achieve this goal, fourteen prints from Okaz were considered in the analysis. The findings revealed that language is used intellig…
English in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
This paper examines the history, politics and discourses around the (teaching of) English language in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA). In addition to discussing the issues and debates around English language, this paper also looks at whether and how English has been localised to suit the local needs and practices. Based on an analysis of English language textbooks used in KSA, the paper shows that Saudi English mostly follows and ascribes to th…
Exploring the Phenomena of Online Dating Platforms Versus Saudi Traditional Spouse Courtship in the 21st Century
While traditional Saudi Arabian courtship is rigidly structured according to a set of Islamic codes of conduct, over the past decade, Saudis have increasingly turned to unconventional means of finding and courting a potential spouse: matrimonial Web sites. This research explores the debate in the literature on computer meditated communication regarding whether online settings provide rich information about other users, as they show that online in…
A critical discourse analysis of Saudi Okaz newspaper front-page headlines
The present article aims to probe the language used in one Saudi newspaper, Okaz. It investigates the application of the critical discourse analysis on newspaper texts. Special attention was paid to front-page headlines. This study seeks to examine the textual features and the discursive features of Okaz newspaper. To achieve this goal, fourteen prints from Okaz were considered in the analysis. The findings revealed that language is used intellig…
Utilizing Matrimonial Web sites Among Saudi Users
Given that little research has been done on unconventional means of finding and courting a potential spouse via matrimonial Web sites, this emerging form of courtship, differs substantially from Western-style online dating. This research examines the impressions Saudi users intended to form when constructing their profiles on matrimonial Web sites, the characteristics these users seek in their potential spouses, and the acceptable Saudi script fo…
The construction of language teacher professional identity in the Global Englishes territory
Although teacher professional identity has been much discussed and reported in teacher education and language education, little empirical evidence addresses how language teachers construct their professional identities as legitimate English practitioners as they have witnessed and encountered the increasingly important role of English as a global lingua franca. To fill this void, this article reports on a narrative case study that investigates ho…
Representations of Saudi Male’s Guardianship System and Women’s Freedom to Travel in Western Newspapers
There has been a tremendous interest in the Western media concerning the status of women in Saudi Arabia. The recent reform in women’s rights and guardianship system has Western media gone into motion frenzy. A few research has been done on the representation of Saudi women in Arabic newspapers, but there is a scarce of research in Western English newspapers to date. This article exercises a critical discourse analysis approach to investigate the…
The representation(s) of Saudi women pre-driving era in local newspapers and magazines
The purpose of this paper is to investigate the online representation(s) of Saudi women in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, with respect to the use of language functions. It aims to identify the particular ways in which Saudi women are represented, as well as the ideologies behind the style of representation, specifically focusing on the timeframe of pre-driving era. As a case study, 17 articles from Saudi newspapers and magazines published online be…
Introduction to Gender in Language Education
Promoting Middle School Students' Engagement Through Incorporating iPad Apps in EFL/ESL Classes
The use of iPad and other handheld devices in classrooms is spreading. Their use can empower learners and expose them to a plethora of resources. Yet, when it comes to learning a foreign language, reasonably little has been done to empirically ascertain the influence of iPad apps on facilitating language learning as well as engaging language learners. Thus, this study endeavored to illumine the extent to which a selection of iPad applications, us…
The Impact of Covid-19 on Learning
As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, most learning around the world has been transferred online. Learners who previously engaged in traditional learning now face a new challenge, a distinctive rise in e-learning. This drastic change could impact their learning behavior and acceptance of the change. As a result, their learning engagement could be affected massively. The present study therefore explores learners’ level of engagement in online cour…
English in Mena
The bibliography presented here aims to provide guide to research on the Englishes of the MENA region. It covers a range of studies published in original journal articles, books, and other research publications between 2010 and 2020 (10 years), with a focus on major works published internationally. This list complements the work of Mahboob (2013), and of Hillman, Selvi and Yazan (2020) in this special issue. Our hope is that this bibliography wil…
Translanguaging and ‘Culigion’ features of Saudi English
In Saudi Arabia and other Middle Eastern contexts, English has played an increasingly important role in such different areas as business, politics, popular culture, tourism, economics, education, and religion. Mahboob and Elyas (2014) argue that the social status of English is ideologically replete with economic, social, political, and religious overtones intertwined within the fabric of Saudi society. This has encouraged Mahboob and Elyas (2014)…
World Englishes in the Middle East and North Africa (Mena)
This special issue highlights the importance of world Englishes research in the Arabic‐speaking and non‐Arabic Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. Scrutiny of the world Englishes (WE) research literature suggests that the MENA region is largely understudied and undertheorized, and that there is a lacuna in research with reference to this topic. The use of English in this geopolitical region is diverse, and the spread of English has emerge…
Toward Critical Intercultural Literacy Enhancement of University Students in China From the Perspective of English as a Lingua Franca
The concept of intercultural communication has become a focus in English language teaching (ELT) against the backdrop of globalization, as English is now used as a lingua franca (ELF) among people with different first languages (L1s). However, the current linguistic landscape of ELF does not reflect well in ELT practices in which native speakerism ideology persists and curriculum design and teaching materials largely remain oriented to native spe…
Investigating the cultural signs and ideological representations in Masameer Saudi cartoon
This study is the first of its own, which provides a semiotic and a discursive analysis of the Saudi animated YouTube sitcom, entitled ‘Masameer’ (the Arabic word for ‘nails-metal spike’). Data were collected from the original YouTube channel of the show (Myrkott) and elaborated on 11 settings which contain three broad categories, namely: traditional treatments, social problems,ideological representation, and gender representations. Cultural sign…
How Is My English
Due to the spread of the English language in various domains and the fact that English is used as a global language, researchers and educators have started to rethink the models and aims of English language teaching in different settings. From the World Englishes (WE) perspective, this study investigated the attitudes of Chinese university students toward the localized variety of "China English," as well as the students' identity construction and…
English Features in Saudi Arabia
Saudi English has recently emerged as a new variety within the World Englishes framework. Many scholars have argued that there is still a gap in the literature and more studies on Saudi English are needed. This study hopes to contribute to the growing research interest in Saudi English studies. The current study aims to identify Saudi English syntactic characteristics classified in relation to noun phrase, verb phrase, prepositional phrase, and c…
Designing English language materials from the perspective of Global Englishes
Driven by a growing body of research on Global Englishes (GE) in English language education, this article showcases the integration of GE into language materials. The goal of the article is to propose a practical way of designing GE-based language materials from a critical ecological perspective. First, we discuss the recontextualization of GE in designing English language materials. Then, we present a critical ecological framework for designing …
Saudi English
A semiotic analysis of images of Saudi Women's rights in caricatures in light of Saudi Women's empowerment
Many caricaturists get the idea for their caricature from current issues of society. The philosophy of the caricature lies in the opinion it presents, which discusses society's goals, culture, and crises, and it is represented in an ironic way to deliver its visual message. The fight for women's rights, inequality, and discrimination are examples of issues concerning Saudi women that have been represented by several caricaturists. Hence, the aim …
Colors and Orientalism as associations
Media representations can have significant influence in shaping opinions and influence public response to certain communities or gender and ethnic representations around the world. Investigating semiotic representation in linguistic discourse as vehicles for meaning in culture has been a fruitful area of research over the past decades. This study explores how stereotypes of women feed into the representations of Saudi women in contemporary press …
Politicizing Covid-19 Lingua in Western and Arab Newspapers
‘I have survived and become more confident’
Promoting professional development of in-service language teachers is key to maintaining education quality. However, extant studies on test-based continuing professional development (CPD) for teachers do not emphasise primary school contexts in China, leading to difficulties in the professional development of this teacher group. Therefore, this paper reports the influences of CPD, based on the Teaching Knowledge Test (TKT) programme for in-servic…
Power and Gender in Saudi Hijazi Proverbs
Soundscapes of the Adhan, the Islamic Call-to-Prayer
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