Waheed M A Altohami
Biographic Data
| ID | 6797360 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Waheed M A Altohami |
| GIVEN NAMES | Waheed M A |
| FAMILY NAME | Altohami |
| SIGNATURE | ALTOHAMI W M A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Prince Sattam Bin Abdulaziz University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8742-1366 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The digital gaze: A multimodal pragmatic analysis of evil-eye expressive strategies (EEEs) in Egyptian Arabic social media
Unspoken Scars: A Systemic Functional Linguistic Analysis of War Trauma and Its Ideological Representations in Kevin Powers’ The Yellow Birds
This study followed a systemic functional linguistics approach to demonstrate how war trauma is ideologically represented in Kevin Powers’ The Yellow Birds (2012). It aimed at exploring how Powers’ lexicogrammatical choices reveal the psychological, emotional, and social consequences of war as experienced by American soldiers in Iraq in 2003. Drawing upon Halliday’s ideational (transitivity), interpersonal (modality and power dynamics), and textu…
Class Identity Signaling through the Strategic Rebranding of Traditional Egyptian Food-Related Terms on Digital Platforms
This study investigates the way re-branding traditional Egyptian food-related terms is strategically used by an emerging socio-economic class to assert their class identity in digital milieus. Specifically, it analyzes the strategies employed for the Englishization and hybridization of culinary culture and examines the underlying socio-cultural motivations and dynamics driving such an innovative linguistic practice. Drawing on insights from socio…
Translating or Stealing? Probing the Limits of Cross-lingual Plagiarism Detection Systems in Literary Texts
This study compares three plagiarism detection systems (Rabin-Karp, KNN, and Word2Vec) to measure their effectiveness in detecting cross-lingual plagiarism in Arabic literary texts translated from English. The dataset consisted of an Arabic translation of Daly Walker’s ‘I am the Grass’ (2012) conducted by the authors and evaluated by three translators with experience of more than ten years. It is divided into 60 percent directly translated, 30 pe…
Self-Framing and Other-(Re)framing in Institutional Political Discourse: The Case of Donald Trump’s Final Speech Before the UN
The goal of this study is to provide a sociocognitive critical discourse analysis of Donald Trump’s 75th UNGA (The UN General Assembly) speech 2020 to demonstrate how Trump (re)framed America and other political actors. The study’s methodology has been divided into three stages: (a) identifying the speech’s macrostructures (major themes) embodying the speech’s global meanings, (b) analyzing the speech’s explicit and implicit local meanings, and (…
A multimodal investigation of EFL upper-intermediate learners’ conceptual metaphors of language learning with some psychological implications
Increased attention has been directed toward utilizing visual modes because linguistic modes cannot accurately depict L2 learners’ metaphorical conceptions of their language-acquisition experiences. The goal of this study was to investigate the mental images that Saudi EFL students may have in mind while learning a foreign language. To this end, both verbal and nonverbal metaphorical conceptions were investigated. An experimental group of 12 stud…
Exploring the efficacy and reliability of automatic text summarisation systems: Arabic texts in focus
This study compared the salient features of the three basic types of automatic text summarisation methods (ATSMs)—extractive, abstractive, and real-time—along with the available approaches used for each type. The data set comprised 12 reports on the current issues on automatic text summarisation methods and techniques across languages, with a special focus on Arabic whose structure has been largely claimed to be problematic in most ATSMs. Three m…
A cross-cultural linguistic analysis of the gendered representations of “Wife” in Egyptian Arabic and American English Proverbs
This study investigates how language, gender, and culture are intertwined in two purpose-built corpora of Egyptian Arabic and American English proverbs. It discusses the ideological representations of the potentially gendered term “wife” in such proverbs, as well as the cultural affinities and discrepancies around them. The study has methodically operated at three stages, drawing on theoretical insights from feminist critical discourse analysis a…
Exploring the referential range of etymologically-related lexical pairs in the language of the Qur’an: A cognitive-semantic approach
The present study conducts a cognitive-semantic analysis of etymologically-related lexical pairs in the language of the Qur’an. Based on objective selection criteria, the lexical pair rīĥ (a singular form literally meaning wind) and riyāĥ (a plural form literally meaning winds) has been claimed to be representative of the final data set, which includes 20 lexical pairs. Building on the theoretical underpinnings of descriptive semantics and frame …
Localization Quality Assessment for More Reliable E-Commerce Applications in Arabic
E-commerce software and applications are mainly designed to let business go globally with less cost and higher accessibility. The localization of such software and websites into several languages is intended for reaching the largest number of consumers through minimizing the impact of linguistic, cultural, and technical barriers. Such barriers are assumed to affect the quality of localization and accordingly the reliability of the e-commerce soft…
The Game-based Metaphorical Representations of the Arab Spring Revolutions in Journalistic Political Discourse
This paper explores how the Arab Spring Revolutions (ASRs) are metaphorically represented in journalistic discourse in a way that highlights or hides specific ideologies related to the political events and actors associated with the Egyptian and Tunisian revolutions over three years (2011-2013). Drawing on Charteris-Black's (2004) corpus-based approach of Critical Metaphor Analysis (CMA), the main political events and actors represented metaphori…
The Game-based Metaphorical Representations of the Arab Spring Revolutions in Journalistic Political Discourse
This paper explores how the Arab Spring Revolutions (ASRs) are metaphorically represented in journalistic discourse in a way that highlights or hides specific ideologies related to the political events and actors associated with the Egyptian and Tunisian revolutions over three years (2011-2013). Drawing on Charteris-Black's (2004) corpus-based approach of Critical Metaphor Analysis (CMA), the main political events and actors represented metaphori…
The Game-based Metaphorical Representations of the Arab Spring Revolutions in Journalistic Political Discourse
This paper explores how the Arab Spring Revolutions (ASRs) are metaphorically represented in journalistic discourse in a way that highlights or hides specific ideologies related to the political events and actors associated with the Egyptian and Tunisian revolutions over three years (2011-2013). Drawing on Charteris-Black's (2004) corpus-based approach of Critical Metaphor Analysis (CMA), the main political events and actors represented metaphori…
Localization Quality Assessment for More Reliable E-Commerce Applications in Arabic
E-commerce software and applications are mainly designed to let business go globally with less cost and higher accessibility. The localization of such software and websites into several languages is intended for reaching the largest number of consumers through minimizing the impact of linguistic, cultural, and technical barriers. Such barriers are assumed to affect the quality of localization and accordingly the reliability of the e-commerce soft…
A multimodal investigation of EFL upper-intermediate learners’ conceptual metaphors of language learning with some psychological implications
Increased attention has been directed toward utilizing visual modes because linguistic modes cannot accurately depict L2 learners’ metaphorical conceptions of their language-acquisition experiences. The goal of this study was to investigate the mental images that Saudi EFL students may have in mind while learning a foreign language. To this end, both verbal and nonverbal metaphorical conceptions were investigated. An experimental group of 12 stud…
Exploring the efficacy and reliability of automatic text summarisation systems: Arabic texts in focus
This study compared the salient features of the three basic types of automatic text summarisation methods (ATSMs)—extractive, abstractive, and real-time—along with the available approaches used for each type. The data set comprised 12 reports on the current issues on automatic text summarisation methods and techniques across languages, with a special focus on Arabic whose structure has been largely claimed to be problematic in most ATSMs. Three m…
A cross-cultural linguistic analysis of the gendered representations of “Wife” in Egyptian Arabic and American English Proverbs
This study investigates how language, gender, and culture are intertwined in two purpose-built corpora of Egyptian Arabic and American English proverbs. It discusses the ideological representations of the potentially gendered term “wife” in such proverbs, as well as the cultural affinities and discrepancies around them. The study has methodically operated at three stages, drawing on theoretical insights from feminist critical discourse analysis a…
Exploring the referential range of etymologically-related lexical pairs in the language of the Qur’an: A cognitive-semantic approach
The present study conducts a cognitive-semantic analysis of etymologically-related lexical pairs in the language of the Qur’an. Based on objective selection criteria, the lexical pair rīĥ (a singular form literally meaning wind) and riyāĥ (a plural form literally meaning winds) has been claimed to be representative of the final data set, which includes 20 lexical pairs. Building on the theoretical underpinnings of descriptive semantics and frame …
Self-Framing and Other-(Re)framing in Institutional Political Discourse: The Case of Donald Trump’s Final Speech Before the UN
The goal of this study is to provide a sociocognitive critical discourse analysis of Donald Trump’s 75th UNGA (The UN General Assembly) speech 2020 to demonstrate how Trump (re)framed America and other political actors. The study’s methodology has been divided into three stages: (a) identifying the speech’s macrostructures (major themes) embodying the speech’s global meanings, (b) analyzing the speech’s explicit and implicit local meanings, and (…
Unspoken Scars: A Systemic Functional Linguistic Analysis of War Trauma and Its Ideological Representations in Kevin Powers’ The Yellow Birds
This study followed a systemic functional linguistics approach to demonstrate how war trauma is ideologically represented in Kevin Powers’ The Yellow Birds (2012). It aimed at exploring how Powers’ lexicogrammatical choices reveal the psychological, emotional, and social consequences of war as experienced by American soldiers in Iraq in 2003. Drawing upon Halliday’s ideational (transitivity), interpersonal (modality and power dynamics), and textu…
Class Identity Signaling through the Strategic Rebranding of Traditional Egyptian Food-Related Terms on Digital Platforms
This study investigates the way re-branding traditional Egyptian food-related terms is strategically used by an emerging socio-economic class to assert their class identity in digital milieus. Specifically, it analyzes the strategies employed for the Englishization and hybridization of culinary culture and examines the underlying socio-cultural motivations and dynamics driving such an innovative linguistic practice. Drawing on insights from socio…
Translating or Stealing? Probing the Limits of Cross-lingual Plagiarism Detection Systems in Literary Texts
This study compares three plagiarism detection systems (Rabin-Karp, KNN, and Word2Vec) to measure their effectiveness in detecting cross-lingual plagiarism in Arabic literary texts translated from English. The dataset consisted of an Arabic translation of Daly Walker’s ‘I am the Grass’ (2012) conducted by the authors and evaluated by three translators with experience of more than ten years. It is divided into 60 percent directly translated, 30 pe…
The digital gaze: A multimodal pragmatic analysis of evil-eye expressive strategies (EEEs) in Egyptian Arabic social media
Linguistics (8 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Ideology (4 works) · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Arabic (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works)