Sukayna Ali
Biographic Data
| ID | 6707491 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sukayna Ali |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sukayna |
| FAMILY NAME | Ali |
| SIGNATURE | ALI S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Jordan |
| ORCID | 0009-0003-7909-1143 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Euphemistic language and strategic communication in televised political election debates during Jordan’s 2024 elections
This study examines the use and pragmatic impact of euphemistic strategies in 15 televised debate episodes aired during the campaign period preceding Jordan’s 2024 parliamentary elections. Through a qualitative content analysis, it shows how Jordanian political party secretaries strategically manipulate language to discuss politically sensitive topics. The analysis shows that synonymy, circumlocution and metaphor were the most salient strategies.…
Bridging meaning and context
This study examines explicature construction in the English translation of the Qur’an, focusing on parenthetical insertions in the Hilali-Khan version. These additions make implicit meanings explicit, guiding readers through culturally and theologically dense material. Applying Huang’s (2014) framework, the analysis categorizes these insertions into five types: disambiguation, reference resolution, saturation, free enrichment, and ad hoc concept …
On the social meanings of avoiding fully-articulated explicatures and the role of pragmatics in utterance explication
The term ‘explicatures’ pertains to the inferential developments made of utterances with the objective of attaining a greater degree of clarity by the speaker (Sperber and Wilson 1986). It was first introduced by relevance theory to provide evidence that the explicit part of communication may contain a pragmatically inferred material, which facilitates communication and makes it more relevant (Carston. 2000. Explicature and semantics. UCL Working…
Sillinity as Survival
This paper explores the concept of “sillinity”, an intentional lighthearted absurdity, as a narrative strategy in Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and contemporary refugee memoirs: Atef Abu Saif’s Don’t Look Left: A Diary of Genocide (2024) and Yusra Mardini’s Butterfly: From Refugee to Olympian—My Story of Rescue, Hope, and Triumph (2018). While Twain’s novel is celebrated for its humor and satire, this study argues that its silli…
She Has The Heart!’ Communicative Strategies of the Linguistic Expressions of Illnesses in Jordanian Arabic and the Effect of Religion in Their Manifestation
This article explores how illnesses are linguistically expressed in Jordanian Arabic (JA). It also investigates the extent to which religion and social norms influence this expression. To this end, we collected authentic data from a number of interactions of JA speakers, particularly within interactive radio and TV programs addressing various life issues, where discussions about illness arise. A total of 834 linguistic expressions of illnesses we…
Subtitling Saudi Arabic slang into English
The aim of this study is to analyze Saudi Arabic slang expressions and examine their subtitling into English. The data utilized in this research consists of slang terms identified in the film titled “The Book of the Sun”, available on the streaming platform Netflix, along with their corresponding English translations. This study primarily examines three key dimensions of slang expressions: originality, conciseness, and humor. It also explores the…
TV simultaneous interpreting of proper nouns from English to Arabic in King Charles III’s speeches
This paper aims to explore the interpreting strategies which were employed by TV interpreters to render English proper nouns (PNs) into Arabic. The data of the study comprise PNs detected in King Charles III’s political speeches along with their Arabic renditions produced live by three TV interpreters working for Al Jazeera, Sky News Arabic, and France 24. The study embarks on a qualitative and quantitative approach to achieve its aim. Based on t…
An Analysis of Explicatures in English -Arabic Subtitles
This study examines the presence of explicatures in subtitling, with a specific focus on the prioritization of different areas of explicatures in English-Arabic subtitles of the American sitcom Friends on Netflix. Sperber and Wilson (1986) introduced the concept of explicatures, which pertains to developments made by communicators to the explicit content of their utterances. This study utilizes Relevance Theory (1986) and Huang's (2014) explicatu…
On The Social Use Of ‘Urban Ammani Arabic’ By Adult Female Speakers In The Amman Metropolitan Area
This article examines the significant phenomenon of the use of what we term "Urban Ammani Arabic" (UAA) by most adult female speakers in the Amman metropolitan area, particularly when this dialect differs from the one they acquire or use in their domestic environments. To explore this, 132 adult female speakers were selected to participate in both sociolinguistic and semi-structured interviews. These interviews aimed to uncover the metapragmatic …
Subtitling Arabic humour into English
This article examines how humour in Arabic stand-up comedies is translated into English in an audio-visual context. The study uses a case study of Arabic stand-up comedies streamed on Netflix, including Live from Beirut by Adel Karam and Comedians of the World/ Middle East. The shows which are subtitled into English involve a variety of Arab comedians speaking different dialects, including the Levant dialect (Lebanese, Jordanian, and Palestinian)…
On The Social Use Of ‘Urban Ammani Arabic’ By Adult Female Speakers In The Amman Metropolitan Area
This article examines the significant phenomenon of the use of what we term "Urban Ammani Arabic" (UAA) by most adult female speakers in the Amman metropolitan area, particularly when this dialect differs from the one they acquire or use in their domestic environments. To explore this, 132 adult female speakers were selected to participate in both sociolinguistic and semi-structured interviews. These interviews aimed to uncover the metapragmatic …
Subtitling Arabic humour into English
This article examines how humour in Arabic stand-up comedies is translated into English in an audio-visual context. The study uses a case study of Arabic stand-up comedies streamed on Netflix, including Live from Beirut by Adel Karam and Comedians of the World/ Middle East. The shows which are subtitled into English involve a variety of Arab comedians speaking different dialects, including the Levant dialect (Lebanese, Jordanian, and Palestinian)…
Subtitling Arabic humour into English
This article examines how humour in Arabic stand-up comedies is translated into English in an audio-visual context. The study uses a case study of Arabic stand-up comedies streamed on Netflix, including Live from Beirut by Adel Karam and Comedians of the World/ Middle East. The shows which are subtitled into English involve a variety of Arab comedians speaking different dialects, including the Levant dialect (Lebanese, Jordanian, and Palestinian)…
Subtitling Saudi Arabic slang into English
The aim of this study is to analyze Saudi Arabic slang expressions and examine their subtitling into English. The data utilized in this research consists of slang terms identified in the film titled “The Book of the Sun”, available on the streaming platform Netflix, along with their corresponding English translations. This study primarily examines three key dimensions of slang expressions: originality, conciseness, and humor. It also explores the…
TV simultaneous interpreting of proper nouns from English to Arabic in King Charles III’s speeches
This paper aims to explore the interpreting strategies which were employed by TV interpreters to render English proper nouns (PNs) into Arabic. The data of the study comprise PNs detected in King Charles III’s political speeches along with their Arabic renditions produced live by three TV interpreters working for Al Jazeera, Sky News Arabic, and France 24. The study embarks on a qualitative and quantitative approach to achieve its aim. Based on t…
An Analysis of Explicatures in English -Arabic Subtitles
This study examines the presence of explicatures in subtitling, with a specific focus on the prioritization of different areas of explicatures in English-Arabic subtitles of the American sitcom Friends on Netflix. Sperber and Wilson (1986) introduced the concept of explicatures, which pertains to developments made by communicators to the explicit content of their utterances. This study utilizes Relevance Theory (1986) and Huang's (2014) explicatu…
On The Social Use Of ‘Urban Ammani Arabic’ By Adult Female Speakers In The Amman Metropolitan Area
This article examines the significant phenomenon of the use of what we term "Urban Ammani Arabic" (UAA) by most adult female speakers in the Amman metropolitan area, particularly when this dialect differs from the one they acquire or use in their domestic environments. To explore this, 132 adult female speakers were selected to participate in both sociolinguistic and semi-structured interviews. These interviews aimed to uncover the metapragmatic …
On the social meanings of avoiding fully-articulated explicatures and the role of pragmatics in utterance explication
The term ‘explicatures’ pertains to the inferential developments made of utterances with the objective of attaining a greater degree of clarity by the speaker (Sperber and Wilson 1986). It was first introduced by relevance theory to provide evidence that the explicit part of communication may contain a pragmatically inferred material, which facilitates communication and makes it more relevant (Carston. 2000. Explicature and semantics. UCL Working…
Sillinity as Survival
This paper explores the concept of “sillinity”, an intentional lighthearted absurdity, as a narrative strategy in Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and contemporary refugee memoirs: Atef Abu Saif’s Don’t Look Left: A Diary of Genocide (2024) and Yusra Mardini’s Butterfly: From Refugee to Olympian—My Story of Rescue, Hope, and Triumph (2018). While Twain’s novel is celebrated for its humor and satire, this study argues that its silli…
She Has The Heart!’ Communicative Strategies of the Linguistic Expressions of Illnesses in Jordanian Arabic and the Effect of Religion in Their Manifestation
This article explores how illnesses are linguistically expressed in Jordanian Arabic (JA). It also investigates the extent to which religion and social norms influence this expression. To this end, we collected authentic data from a number of interactions of JA speakers, particularly within interactive radio and TV programs addressing various life issues, where discussions about illness arise. A total of 834 linguistic expressions of illnesses we…
Euphemistic language and strategic communication in televised political election debates during Jordan’s 2024 elections
This study examines the use and pragmatic impact of euphemistic strategies in 15 televised debate episodes aired during the campaign period preceding Jordan’s 2024 parliamentary elections. Through a qualitative content analysis, it shows how Jordanian political party secretaries strategically manipulate language to discuss politically sensitive topics. The analysis shows that synonymy, circumlocution and metaphor were the most salient strategies.…
Bridging meaning and context
This study examines explicature construction in the English translation of the Qur’an, focusing on parenthetical insertions in the Hilali-Khan version. These additions make implicit meanings explicit, guiding readers through culturally and theologically dense material. Applying Huang’s (2014) framework, the analysis categorizes these insertions into five types: disambiguation, reference resolution, saturation, free enrichment, and ad hoc concept …
Linguistics (7 works) · Arabic (6 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Translation Studies and Practices (5 works) · Swearing, Euphemism, Multilingualism (4 works) · Art (3 works) · History (3 works) · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (3 works) · Explication (2 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (2 works)