Ayman Khafaga
Biographic Data
| ID | 9246162 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ayman Khafaga |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ayman |
| FAMILY NAME | Khafaga |
| SIGNATURE | KHAFAGA A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Suez Canal University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0463-9413 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Passivization and Negation as Markers of Gendered Ideology in Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid’s Tale
This study explores how passivization and negation function as ideological positioning markers of gendered ideology in Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale (1985). The study has three interrelated objectives: first, to investigate how the grammatical structures of passivization and negation linguistically encode and reinforce gendered subordination and power asymmetries in The Handmaid’s Tale; second, to analyze the ways in which the employment …
Requests as macro-speech act motivators in Qur’anic dialogues
Besides their linguistic nature of directivity that necessitates a verbal and/or physical response, requests can also function as linguistic motivators of macro-speech acts. Based on this assumption, this paper explores the extent to which requests in some Qur’anic dialogues not only elicit a response but also motivate a sequence of ancillary speech acts that forms a macro-speech act communicating one macro-proposition. This objective is primaril…
Imperatives as persuasion strategies in political discourse
This paper attempts to explore the extent to which imperatives, linguistically manifested in direct commands, attention-getters, and let-constructions, function as persuasion strategies in one of the speeches of President El-Sisi of Egypt. The main objective of this paper is to test the hypothesis that imperatives, irrespective of their type, do not necessarily require a verbal or physical response, as is the case with their ordinary semantic fun…
Beyond relational work: A psycho-pragmatic analysis of impoliteness in Shakespeare’s King Lear
This paper offers a psycho-pragmatic analysis of impoliteness in Shakespeare’s King Lear at the intradiegetic level of communication. The paper’s main objective is to explore the extent to which impoliteness assessment is influenced by both the psychological traits of interlocutors motivated by their reality paradigms and the fictional participation of discourse participants, which targets a deeper understanding of the association between impolit…
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 …
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Beyond relational work: A psycho-pragmatic analysis of impoliteness in Shakespeare’s King Lear
This paper offers a psycho-pragmatic analysis of impoliteness in Shakespeare’s King Lear at the intradiegetic level of communication. The paper’s main objective is to explore the extent to which impoliteness assessment is influenced by both the psychological traits of interlocutors motivated by their reality paradigms and the fictional participation of discourse participants, which targets a deeper understanding of the association between impolit…
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 …
Requests as macro-speech act motivators in Qur’anic dialogues
Besides their linguistic nature of directivity that necessitates a verbal and/or physical response, requests can also function as linguistic motivators of macro-speech acts. Based on this assumption, this paper explores the extent to which requests in some Qur’anic dialogues not only elicit a response but also motivate a sequence of ancillary speech acts that forms a macro-speech act communicating one macro-proposition. This objective is primaril…
Imperatives as persuasion strategies in political discourse
This paper attempts to explore the extent to which imperatives, linguistically manifested in direct commands, attention-getters, and let-constructions, function as persuasion strategies in one of the speeches of President El-Sisi of Egypt. The main objective of this paper is to test the hypothesis that imperatives, irrespective of their type, do not necessarily require a verbal or physical response, as is the case with their ordinary semantic fun…
Passivization and Negation as Markers of Gendered Ideology in Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid’s Tale
This study explores how passivization and negation function as ideological positioning markers of gendered ideology in Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale (1985). The study has three interrelated objectives: first, to investigate how the grammatical structures of passivization and negation linguistically encode and reinforce gendered subordination and power asymmetries in The Handmaid’s Tale; second, to analyze the ways in which the employment …
Psychology (4 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (3 works) · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (3 works) · Linguistics (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies (2 works) · Families in Therapy and Culture (2 works) · Social Psychology (2 works) · Speech act (2 works)