May Samir El-Falaky
Biographic Data
| ID | 6890022 |
|---|---|
| NAME | May Samir El-Falaky |
| GIVEN NAMES | May Samir |
| FAMILY NAME | El-Falaky |
| SIGNATURE | EL-FALAKY M S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Arab Academy for Science, Technology, and Maritime Transport |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
When the language of smoking says it all
Smoking is a social behaviour practised for several external (social) and internal (psychological) reasons. This paper examines the complex practice of smoking and its relationship with linguistic interaction, and psychological causes/responses by interpreting the act of smoking in Golda , the American film about the Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir during the 6th of October War between Egypt and Israel in 1973. The study utilises Kress and van …
A top-secret game
This paper examines categories and functions of interactive and interactional textual elements used in the contractual discourse of selling/purchasing 100 shares of the Suez Canal Company in 1947. The exchanged documents between the involved parties, the Egyptian (buyer) and the American (seller), are analyzed using Metadiscourse Analysis (MDA) as an approach to analyzing the textual resources used in the selected corpus. Game Theory is also used…
Recovering from cultural blindness
This paper extends Nartey’s model of Positive Discourse Analysis (PDA), examining the visual metaphors (VM) in the representations of Islamic identity. The paper highlights how hand-drawings operate as a positive discourse resisting negative accusations in hegemonic discourses about Islam. This PDA study is an intellectual proximity between semiotics, VMs and cultural studies. Through the constructed framework, I argue that PDA can utilize VMs to…
Recovering from cultural blindness
This paper extends Nartey’s model of Positive Discourse Analysis (PDA), examining the visual metaphors (VM) in the representations of Islamic identity. The paper highlights how hand-drawings operate as a positive discourse resisting negative accusations in hegemonic discourses about Islam. This PDA study is an intellectual proximity between semiotics, VMs and cultural studies. Through the constructed framework, I argue that PDA can utilize VMs to…
A top-secret game
This paper examines categories and functions of interactive and interactional textual elements used in the contractual discourse of selling/purchasing 100 shares of the Suez Canal Company in 1947. The exchanged documents between the involved parties, the Egyptian (buyer) and the American (seller), are analyzed using Metadiscourse Analysis (MDA) as an approach to analyzing the textual resources used in the selected corpus. Game Theory is also used…
Recovering from cultural blindness
This paper extends Nartey’s model of Positive Discourse Analysis (PDA), examining the visual metaphors (VM) in the representations of Islamic identity. The paper highlights how hand-drawings operate as a positive discourse resisting negative accusations in hegemonic discourses about Islam. This PDA study is an intellectual proximity between semiotics, VMs and cultural studies. Through the constructed framework, I argue that PDA can utilize VMs to…
When the language of smoking says it all
Smoking is a social behaviour practised for several external (social) and internal (psychological) reasons. This paper examines the complex practice of smoking and its relationship with linguistic interaction, and psychological causes/responses by interpreting the act of smoking in Golda , the American film about the Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir during the 6th of October War between Egypt and Israel in 1973. The study utilises Kress and van …
Discourse Analysis in Language Studies (2 works) · Linguistics and Discourse Analysis (2 works) · Semiotics (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 work) · Anthropology (1 work) · Business (1 work) · Computer Science (1 work) · Construal level theory (1 work) · Construct (python library (1 work)