Muhammad A Badarneh
Biographic Data
| ID | 659622 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Muhammad A Badarneh |
| GIVEN NAMES | Muhammad A |
| FAMILY NAME | Badarneh |
| SIGNATURE | BADARNEH M A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Jordan University of Science and Technology |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4765-0938 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 42 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
‘All we are concerned with is saving the country’: National salvation, othering, and victimhood in Arabic public political resignations
The present study investigates the underexplored topic of public political resignation speeches in contemporary Arabic discourse. The study takes as a case the resignation speech of the former Lebanese Prime Minister Hassan Diab, which he delivered in the aftermath of the catastrophic Beirut port explosion in August 2020. Adopting positioning theory, the analysis showed that this resignation speech was predicated on four storylines: saving the co…
Where have you been hiding this voice?’: Judges’ compliments on the TV talent show Arab Idol
This study explores compliments given by judges to contestants on the TV talent show Arab Idol . A total of 120 comments from the third season 2014–2015 were analyzed for compliment types, structures, lexicon, and supportive remarks. Spenser-Oatey’s ( 2000 , 2002 , 2005a , 2005b , 2008 ) rapport management theory was employed to determine how judges managed rapport with contestants through compliments. The analysis shows that the majority of judg…
Criticizing for the public interest and aligning with others: How Jordanians constructed their online criticisms of lockdown breaches during the Covid-19 pandemic
This study examines the speech act of criticizing in online comments on the COVID-19 lockdown breaches in Jordan in 2020. Drawing on speech act theory and the face-saving perspective of politeness, the study investigates the strategies used to criticize these breaches. The analysis of 356 online comments revealed that Jordanians used ten strategies to criticize these lockdown breaches: Insulting, Appealing to the divine, Intertextuality, Rhetoric…
Sacrifice, suffering and memory: The discursive construction of secular martyrdom in contemporary Arab discourse
A Cognitive Analysis of White Colour Metaphorization in Algerian Arabic
This study explores the use of white verbal colour metaphors in the Algerian context. It seeks to unravel how the use of conceptual metaphors symbolises white colour. Data informants were eight native speakers of the dialect under scrutiny, and the corpus of the study consisted of 14 verbal metaphors. The researcher adopted Lakoff and Johnsons’s Conceptual Metaphor Theory (1980) and Charteris Black’s Critical Metaphor Analysis (2004) to analyse d…
Self-Defence Discourse in Collectivist Cultures: The Case of Jordanian Tribes Defending Their Members Against Public Accusations of Corruption
This study examines how tribes in Jordan defend their members accused of corruption. The data come from three major public statements by three large tribes in response to highly publicized accusations of corruption. Using positioning theory, the analysis shows that this collectivist discourse is centered on self-glorification; stressing loyalty, belonging, and national identity; invoking religious narratives; and attacking accusers. It relies hea…
Car bumper stickers in Jordan as a site of carnivalesque transgression and degradation
The present study investigates how car bumper stickers in Jordan are exploited as public texts and spaces to communicate transgressive messages about the self and the other. Using Bakhtin’s notions of the carnival and the carnivalesque, eighty-four ethnographically collected bumper stickers were analyzed. The analysis of data shows that this public form of communication is exploited by Jordanian drivers and car owners as a site of carnivalesque t…
Invoking divine blessing: The pragmatics of the congratulation speech act in university graduation notebooks in Jordan
This study explores the speech act of congratulation in university graduation notebooks, a new communicative context in Jordan. Using the concept of the pragmeme as a situated speech act, a total of 1064 congratulatory messages, found in 35 notebooks, were analyzed. The analysis demonstrated that the cultural concept of baraka ‘blessing’ plays a central role in the Arabic congratulation speech act. Embedded in its production are other speech acts…
‘Like a donkey carrying books’: Intertextuality and impoliteness in Arabic online reader responses
This study aims to show how intertextuality is exploited as an impoliteness resource in online reader comments on the website of a London-based pan-Arab Arabic-language daily newspaper. Analysis of 140 reader responses containing impolite references shows that readers called upon and appropriated the language and imagery of impolite and culturally salient prior texts from four sources to perform impoliteness: traditional scriptures, historical te…
Discourses of defense: Self and other positioning in public responses to accusations of corruption in Jordan
Public accusations of corruption leveled against public figures and institutions in Jordan have recently become a prominent feature of public discourse in the country. Informed by positioning theory as an analytical framework, this study focuses on public responses to such accusations through a discourse analysis of two major apologetic statements, or apologiae, issued in Jordan in 2018 and 2019: one by a controversial former royal court chief an…
Acts of positioning in online reader comments on Jordanian news websites
Performing acts of impoliteness through code-switching to English in colloquial Jordanian Arabic interactions
This article investigates how English is exploited in naturally occurring interactions in colloquial Jordanian Arabic to perform acts of impoliteness, drawing on impoliteness model by Culpeper (1996), its subsequent modifications in Culpeper et al. (2003) and Culpeper (2005), and its alignment with Spencer-Oatey’s (2002) concept of rapport-management. Attack on face, specifically Quality Face, Social Identity Face, and Association Rights, through…
Performing acts of impoliteness through code-switching to English in colloquial Jordanian Arabic interactions
This article investigates how English is exploited in naturally occurring interactions in colloquial Jordanian Arabic to perform acts of impoliteness, drawing on impoliteness model by Culpeper (1996) , its subsequent modifications in Culpeper et al. (2003) and Culpeper (2005) , and its alignment with Spencer-Oatey’s (2002) concept of rapport-management. Attack on face, specifically Quality Face, Social Identity Face, and Association Rights, throu…
A semiotic analysis of political cartoons in Jordan in light of the Arab Spring
This paper provides a semiotic analysis of political cartoons published in Jordan prior to and during the 2013 elections. It seeks to depict the sociopolitical context after the 2011 Arab Spring and focuses on the changes to people’s practices and stances toward politics and politicians. The data consist of political cartoons by the Jordanian cartoonist Imad Hajjaj drawn during the parliamentary election campaigns in 2007, 2010, and 2013. This pa…
A Semiotic Analysis of Political Cartoons in Jordan in Light of the Arab Spring
This paper provides a semiotic analysis of political cartoons published in Jordan prior to and during the 2013 elections. It seeks to depict the sociopolitical context after the 2011 Arab Spring and focuses on the changes to people’s practices and stances toward politics and politicians. The data consist of political cartoons by the Jordanian cartoonist Imad Hajjaj drawn during the parliamentary election campaigns in 2007, 2010, and 2013. This pa…
Between tradition and modernity: The bargaining genre in women's clothing stores in Jordan
A semiotic analysis of intergeneric borrowings in print advertisements in Jordan
This paper presents a semiotic analysis of Arabic print advertisements in Jordan. In particular it investigates the phenomenon of intergeneric borrowings. The focus of the study is to provide interpretation of the connoted meanings of these borrowings in light of the sociocultural context that has given rise to them. It also aims to show how these borrowings and the other signs intersemiotically complement each other to achieve their communicativ…
The Pragmatics of Prophet-Praise Formulas in Jordan
This article explores the pragmatics of prototypically religious prophet-praise formulas as used in everyday interactional settings in Jordan. Analysis of naturally occurring data shows that formulas of this type serve various pragmatic functions-place-holding during hesitations, seeking protection from envy, marking success, and intensifying the basic message of the utterance. Imperative and interrogative versions are used to terminate a disrupt…
Public Complaints and Complaint Responses in Calls to a Jordanian Radio Phone-in Program
This study investigates complaints and complaint responses in interactions between local citizens and the hosts of a live two-hour radio phone-in in Jordan devoted to receiving and handling complaints of a public nature. Using Brown and Levinson’s (1987) politeness model, the study examines the functions and patterns of complaints and the types of responses elicited from the hosts. Findings indicate that callers attempt to promote solidarity with…
Carnivalesque politics: A Bakhtinian case study of contemporary Arab political humor
This paper is a case study of contemporary Arab political jokes in the light of Bakhtinian theory of carnival and the carnivalesque. According to this analysis, these political jokes represent a variety of texts whose topics revert around “glorifying”, mocking, parodying, scatologizing, and ultimately betraying the ruler. These types of political jokes reflect a textual representation of the life cycle of the oppressive ruler, which begins with c…
Intertextual borrowings in ideologically competing discourses: The case of the Middle East
This study examines ideologically driven intertextual borrowings in political discourse in light of political events related to the Middle East. Its primary concern is to explore the ideological struggle and power relations governing the production of political text. For this purpose, this study analyses a variety of texts on the Middle East in both Arabic and English. These texts are analyzed through a multi-dimensional approach of Critical Disc…
Divine Will and its Extensions: Communicative Functions of maašaallah in Colloquial Jordanian Arabic
This study examines the communicative functions of the Arabic religious formula maašaallah in light of speech act theory, Gricean maxims, and Brown and Levinson's politeness model. Analysis of 500 instances of this formula in a variety of naturally occurring settings in colloquial Jordanian Arabic shows that the expression, as an extension of its semantic value of expressing divine will, is used as an invocation, a compliment, an expression of gl…
The pragmatics of diminutives in colloquial Jordanian Arabic
Gender metaphors in Middle Eastern politics and the Arab receiver
This study is based on the assumption that politicians, in their struggle for power and hegemony, deliberately use metaphors in their discourse to encode meanings derived from the patriarchal view on the roles women and men play in society, and hence leaving strong ideological effects on different participants. The aim of the study is to explore the cultural grounds of these metaphors and their connotations in different political situations. The …
Carnivalesque politics: A Bakhtinian case study of contemporary Arab political humor
This paper is a case study of contemporary Arab political jokes in the light of Bakhtinian theory of carnival and the carnivalesque. According to this analysis, these political jokes represent a variety of texts whose topics revert around “glorifying”, mocking, parodying, scatologizing, and ultimately betraying the ruler. These types of political jokes reflect a textual representation of the life cycle of the oppressive ruler, which begins with c…
Divine Will and its Extensions: Communicative Functions of maašaallah in Colloquial Jordanian Arabic
This study examines the communicative functions of the Arabic religious formula maašaallah in light of speech act theory, Gricean maxims, and Brown and Levinson's politeness model. Analysis of 500 instances of this formula in a variety of naturally occurring settings in colloquial Jordanian Arabic shows that the expression, as an extension of its semantic value of expressing divine will, is used as an invocation, a compliment, an expression of gl…
A semiotic analysis of political cartoons in Jordan in light of the Arab Spring
This paper provides a semiotic analysis of political cartoons published in Jordan prior to and during the 2013 elections. It seeks to depict the sociopolitical context after the 2011 Arab Spring and focuses on the changes to people’s practices and stances toward politics and politicians. The data consist of political cartoons by the Jordanian cartoonist Imad Hajjaj drawn during the parliamentary election campaigns in 2007, 2010, and 2013. This pa…
The pragmatics of diminutives in colloquial Jordanian Arabic
A Semiotic Analysis of Political Cartoons in Jordan in Light of the Arab Spring
This paper provides a semiotic analysis of political cartoons published in Jordan prior to and during the 2013 elections. It seeks to depict the sociopolitical context after the 2011 Arab Spring and focuses on the changes to people’s practices and stances toward politics and politicians. The data consist of political cartoons by the Jordanian cartoonist Imad Hajjaj drawn during the parliamentary election campaigns in 2007, 2010, and 2013. This pa…
Between tradition and modernity: The bargaining genre in women's clothing stores in Jordan
The Pragmatics of Prophet-Praise Formulas in Jordan
This article explores the pragmatics of prototypically religious prophet-praise formulas as used in everyday interactional settings in Jordan. Analysis of naturally occurring data shows that formulas of this type serve various pragmatic functions-place-holding during hesitations, seeking protection from envy, marking success, and intensifying the basic message of the utterance. Imperative and interrogative versions are used to terminate a disrupt…
A semiotic analysis of intergeneric borrowings in print advertisements in Jordan
This paper presents a semiotic analysis of Arabic print advertisements in Jordan. In particular it investigates the phenomenon of intergeneric borrowings. The focus of the study is to provide interpretation of the connoted meanings of these borrowings in light of the sociocultural context that has given rise to them. It also aims to show how these borrowings and the other signs intersemiotically complement each other to achieve their communicativ…
Gender metaphors in Middle Eastern politics and the Arab receiver
This study is based on the assumption that politicians, in their struggle for power and hegemony, deliberately use metaphors in their discourse to encode meanings derived from the patriarchal view on the roles women and men play in society, and hence leaving strong ideological effects on different participants. The aim of the study is to explore the cultural grounds of these metaphors and their connotations in different political situations. The …
Gender metaphors in Middle Eastern politics and the Arab receiver
This study is based on the assumption that politicians, in their struggle for power and hegemony, deliberately use metaphors in their discourse to encode meanings derived from the patriarchal view on the roles women and men play in society, and hence leaving strong ideological effects on different participants. The aim of the study is to explore the cultural grounds of these metaphors and their connotations in different political situations. The …
Intertextual borrowings in ideologically competing discourses: The case of the Middle East
This study examines ideologically driven intertextual borrowings in political discourse in light of political events related to the Middle East. Its primary concern is to explore the ideological struggle and power relations governing the production of political text. For this purpose, this study analyses a variety of texts on the Middle East in both Arabic and English. These texts are analyzed through a multi-dimensional approach of Critical Disc…
Divine Will and its Extensions: Communicative Functions of maašaallah in Colloquial Jordanian Arabic
This study examines the communicative functions of the Arabic religious formula maašaallah in light of speech act theory, Gricean maxims, and Brown and Levinson's politeness model. Analysis of 500 instances of this formula in a variety of naturally occurring settings in colloquial Jordanian Arabic shows that the expression, as an extension of its semantic value of expressing divine will, is used as an invocation, a compliment, an expression of gl…
The pragmatics of diminutives in colloquial Jordanian Arabic
Carnivalesque politics: A Bakhtinian case study of contemporary Arab political humor
This paper is a case study of contemporary Arab political jokes in the light of Bakhtinian theory of carnival and the carnivalesque. According to this analysis, these political jokes represent a variety of texts whose topics revert around “glorifying”, mocking, parodying, scatologizing, and ultimately betraying the ruler. These types of political jokes reflect a textual representation of the life cycle of the oppressive ruler, which begins with c…
Public Complaints and Complaint Responses in Calls to a Jordanian Radio Phone-in Program
This study investigates complaints and complaint responses in interactions between local citizens and the hosts of a live two-hour radio phone-in in Jordan devoted to receiving and handling complaints of a public nature. Using Brown and Levinson’s (1987) politeness model, the study examines the functions and patterns of complaints and the types of responses elicited from the hosts. Findings indicate that callers attempt to promote solidarity with…
The Pragmatics of Prophet-Praise Formulas in Jordan
This article explores the pragmatics of prototypically religious prophet-praise formulas as used in everyday interactional settings in Jordan. Analysis of naturally occurring data shows that formulas of this type serve various pragmatic functions-place-holding during hesitations, seeking protection from envy, marking success, and intensifying the basic message of the utterance. Imperative and interrogative versions are used to terminate a disrupt…
A semiotic analysis of intergeneric borrowings in print advertisements in Jordan
This paper presents a semiotic analysis of Arabic print advertisements in Jordan. In particular it investigates the phenomenon of intergeneric borrowings. The focus of the study is to provide interpretation of the connoted meanings of these borrowings in light of the sociocultural context that has given rise to them. It also aims to show how these borrowings and the other signs intersemiotically complement each other to achieve their communicativ…
A semiotic analysis of political cartoons in Jordan in light of the Arab Spring
This paper provides a semiotic analysis of political cartoons published in Jordan prior to and during the 2013 elections. It seeks to depict the sociopolitical context after the 2011 Arab Spring and focuses on the changes to people’s practices and stances toward politics and politicians. The data consist of political cartoons by the Jordanian cartoonist Imad Hajjaj drawn during the parliamentary election campaigns in 2007, 2010, and 2013. This pa…
A Semiotic Analysis of Political Cartoons in Jordan in Light of the Arab Spring
This paper provides a semiotic analysis of political cartoons published in Jordan prior to and during the 2013 elections. It seeks to depict the sociopolitical context after the 2011 Arab Spring and focuses on the changes to people’s practices and stances toward politics and politicians. The data consist of political cartoons by the Jordanian cartoonist Imad Hajjaj drawn during the parliamentary election campaigns in 2007, 2010, and 2013. This pa…
Between tradition and modernity: The bargaining genre in women's clothing stores in Jordan
Performing acts of impoliteness through code-switching to English in colloquial Jordanian Arabic interactions
This article investigates how English is exploited in naturally occurring interactions in colloquial Jordanian Arabic to perform acts of impoliteness, drawing on impoliteness model by Culpeper (1996), its subsequent modifications in Culpeper et al. (2003) and Culpeper (2005), and its alignment with Spencer-Oatey’s (2002) concept of rapport-management. Attack on face, specifically Quality Face, Social Identity Face, and Association Rights, through…
Performing acts of impoliteness through code-switching to English in colloquial Jordanian Arabic interactions
This article investigates how English is exploited in naturally occurring interactions in colloquial Jordanian Arabic to perform acts of impoliteness, drawing on impoliteness model by Culpeper (1996) , its subsequent modifications in Culpeper et al. (2003) and Culpeper (2005) , and its alignment with Spencer-Oatey’s (2002) concept of rapport-management. Attack on face, specifically Quality Face, Social Identity Face, and Association Rights, throu…
Acts of positioning in online reader comments on Jordanian news websites
‘Like a donkey carrying books’: Intertextuality and impoliteness in Arabic online reader responses
This study aims to show how intertextuality is exploited as an impoliteness resource in online reader comments on the website of a London-based pan-Arab Arabic-language daily newspaper. Analysis of 140 reader responses containing impolite references shows that readers called upon and appropriated the language and imagery of impolite and culturally salient prior texts from four sources to perform impoliteness: traditional scriptures, historical te…
Discourses of defense: Self and other positioning in public responses to accusations of corruption in Jordan
Public accusations of corruption leveled against public figures and institutions in Jordan have recently become a prominent feature of public discourse in the country. Informed by positioning theory as an analytical framework, this study focuses on public responses to such accusations through a discourse analysis of two major apologetic statements, or apologiae, issued in Jordan in 2018 and 2019: one by a controversial former royal court chief an…
Invoking divine blessing: The pragmatics of the congratulation speech act in university graduation notebooks in Jordan
This study explores the speech act of congratulation in university graduation notebooks, a new communicative context in Jordan. Using the concept of the pragmeme as a situated speech act, a total of 1064 congratulatory messages, found in 35 notebooks, were analyzed. The analysis demonstrated that the cultural concept of baraka ‘blessing’ plays a central role in the Arabic congratulation speech act. Embedded in its production are other speech acts…
A Cognitive Analysis of White Colour Metaphorization in Algerian Arabic
This study explores the use of white verbal colour metaphors in the Algerian context. It seeks to unravel how the use of conceptual metaphors symbolises white colour. Data informants were eight native speakers of the dialect under scrutiny, and the corpus of the study consisted of 14 verbal metaphors. The researcher adopted Lakoff and Johnsons’s Conceptual Metaphor Theory (1980) and Charteris Black’s Critical Metaphor Analysis (2004) to analyse d…
Self-Defence Discourse in Collectivist Cultures: The Case of Jordanian Tribes Defending Their Members Against Public Accusations of Corruption
This study examines how tribes in Jordan defend their members accused of corruption. The data come from three major public statements by three large tribes in response to highly publicized accusations of corruption. Using positioning theory, the analysis shows that this collectivist discourse is centered on self-glorification; stressing loyalty, belonging, and national identity; invoking religious narratives; and attacking accusers. It relies hea…
Car bumper stickers in Jordan as a site of carnivalesque transgression and degradation
The present study investigates how car bumper stickers in Jordan are exploited as public texts and spaces to communicate transgressive messages about the self and the other. Using Bakhtin’s notions of the carnival and the carnivalesque, eighty-four ethnographically collected bumper stickers were analyzed. The analysis of data shows that this public form of communication is exploited by Jordanian drivers and car owners as a site of carnivalesque t…
Criticizing for the public interest and aligning with others: How Jordanians constructed their online criticisms of lockdown breaches during the Covid-19 pandemic
This study examines the speech act of criticizing in online comments on the COVID-19 lockdown breaches in Jordan in 2020. Drawing on speech act theory and the face-saving perspective of politeness, the study investigates the strategies used to criticize these breaches. The analysis of 356 online comments revealed that Jordanians used ten strategies to criticize these lockdown breaches: Insulting, Appealing to the divine, Intertextuality, Rhetoric…
Sacrifice, suffering and memory: The discursive construction of secular martyrdom in contemporary Arab discourse
Where have you been hiding this voice?’: Judges’ compliments on the TV talent show Arab Idol
This study explores compliments given by judges to contestants on the TV talent show Arab Idol . A total of 120 comments from the third season 2014–2015 were analyzed for compliment types, structures, lexicon, and supportive remarks. Spenser-Oatey’s ( 2000 , 2002 , 2005a , 2005b , 2008 ) rapport management theory was employed to determine how judges managed rapport with contestants through compliments. The analysis shows that the majority of judg…
‘All we are concerned with is saving the country’: National salvation, othering, and victimhood in Arabic public political resignations
The present study investigates the underexplored topic of public political resignation speeches in contemporary Arabic discourse. The study takes as a case the resignation speech of the former Lebanese Prime Minister Hassan Diab, which he delivered in the aftermath of the catastrophic Beirut port explosion in August 2020. Adopting positioning theory, the analysis showed that this resignation speech was predicated on four storylines: saving the co…
Sociology (19 works) · Linguistics (17 works) · Philosophy (17 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (13 works) · Law (13 works) · Political science (13 works) · History (11 works) · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies (10 works) · Philosophy (10 works) · Politics (10 works)