Jihad M Hamdan
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 176221 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Jihad M Hamdan |
| PRENOMES | Jihad M |
| SOBRENOME | Hamdan |
| ASSINATURA | HAMDAN J M |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Jordan |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8952-6310 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 18 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 11 |
| OBRAS COMO AUTOR | 18 |
| OBRAS COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1999 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
The Status of Arabic DaaD /dʕ/ in the Speech of Jordanian Youth
The present study examines the current status of Arabic DaaD /dʕ/ in the speech of Jordanian university students. Data are collected through an articulation test and a reading aloud task. The results show that although rural and Bedouin speakers are more likely to adhere to their own dialectal variants in both informal and formal contexts, both genders are increasingly influenced by the urban dialect, with females leading the change. From a socio…
Conceptual metaphors in Jordanian newspaper socio-political discourse during the Arab Spring
This study aims at identifying and analyzing the metaphors used to describe socio-political concepts in Jordanian Arabic newspapers in the context of the Jordanian protests during the Arab Spring. The analysis also includes the pragmatic functions that these metaphors serve in this context. To this end, a corpus of sociopolitical newspaper opinion articles published in 2011 and 2012 (i.e., the first wave of the Arab Spring) and 2018 and 2019 (i.e…
Framing the Bisht
This study investigates how Arab and non-Arab online news sources covered the bisht moment during the 2022 FIFA World Cup final. The study's corpus consists of 10 English-language online news reports, evenly split: 5 from Arab and 5 from non-Arab sources, collected from their official websites, to ensure diverse cultural representation and prevent bias. Using Machin and Mayr’s (2012) Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis (MCDA) framework and Van…
A corpus-based study of corruption metaphors
This study examines the metaphors used to depict corrupt individuals in the context of the Jordanian Hirak protest movement during the Arab Spring (2011–2012). This analysis was conducted using the lens of a Critical Metaphor Analysis (CMA) approach. To this end, a specialized corpus of socio-political articles was built from two mainstream Jordanian newspapers: Al-Rai and Addustour. The corpus was examined using WordSmith Tools, which support Ar…
A Visual Analysis of Male Characters in Disney Animated Movies
This study investigates the visual features of male characters of nine Disney animated movies taken from the last three decades 1990-1999, 2000-2009 and 2010-2019. Aley and Hahn’s (2020) framework of men’s portrayal (developed from Goffman, 1976) is applied. The qualitative analysis reveals that the physical appearance of Disney male characters has changed over time. Body image changed from an unrealistic large body with big muscles to a realisti…
On the Pragmatic Functions of the Idiomatic Expression ‘Tamam’ in Jordanian Arabic
This study investigates the pragmatic functions of the idiomatic expression Tamam (lit. ‘complete’) as used by university students who speak Jordanian Arabic (JA). To this end, the researchers developed an electronic questionnaire that contained 14 different situations/contexts, each illustrating one pragmatic function as identified and determined by the researchers. The questionnaire was distributed electronically via the WhatsApp application to…
A Joke Off-hand
Based on a sample of 75 Jokes extracted from YouTube clips which belong to a comic program called ‘A Joke Off-hand’, different Jordanian male age-groups are shown to highly welcome, appreciate, and interact with joke telling in public. The topics of jokes are varied, mainly involving hash-addict (26.66%), marriage (16%), body defects (6.66%), and school (6.66%) jokes. The total absence of political jokes and the very few sexual and religious joke…
Covid-19 Conceptual Metaphors in Jordanian Political Discourse
Conceptual Metaphors are part of human cognition and are essential to human knowledge and experience. The study reported here examines the COVID-19 conceptual metaphors underlying the metaphoric language employed by Jordanian government officials during two periods in 2020, namely from February to May and September to December. To this end, a corpus of official statements (n=213) reported in Al-Rai ‘The Opinion’, an Arabic daily mainstream newspa…
Language Policy and Planning in Algeria
This paper discusses the Berber language situation in Algeria in a language policy and planning context. It comprises two main parts. The first provides a general account of the linguistic profile of Algeria coupled with a historical context of the Berber language and Algerian Arabic. In order to develop a deeper understanding of the present issue, the second section is devoted to the Berber language planning, and the socio-political context of i…
Strategies of Facebook users in offering condolences on a death anniversary
This paper explores the most frequently used strategies by Jordanian Facebook users when commenting on the death anniversary status of Wasfi al-Tal, a former prime minister of Jordan, who was assassinated in 1971. The corpus comprises 530 comments. The findings reveal the use of nine strategies, e.g., praying for God’s mercy, praying for God’s mercy annexed to wishing the deceased an abode in paradise, praying for God’s mercy in combination with …
Comprehension of Idioms by Jordanian Arabic-Speaking Children
The Effects of ‘Face’ on Listening Comprehension
Newspaper Stories on HIV/Aids in Jordan
The study reported here explored the HIV/AIDS-related lexicon in two mainstream Arabic dailies in Jordan over a period of 21 years. Throughout the time period, the most frequently used term to refer to HIV/AIDS was al-eidz, the Arabicized acronym for 'AIDS'. Both Jordanian and Western media tended to emphasize the role of religion and social values in the fight against HIV/AIDS. The data also showed a significant attitudinal shift, over time, tow…
English in the Jordanian Context
The paper explores the status of English in Jordan as reflected in newspaper job advertisements (ads) published in 1985, 1995 and 2005, and English language documents in the educational domain. The study shows a steady increase in the percentage of English ads paralleled with a steady decrease in the percentage of Arabic ads. Further, it reports a significant increase in the percentage of ads that make English proficiency a precondition for emplo…
The Semantics of –ship and -hood from a Foreign Language Learner’s Perspective
This paper reports on the findings of a large-scale study on how a group of EFL learners at university interact with the semantics of -ship and –hood. The data are elicited through a written task consisting of sixteen sentences, each containing a word that is normally suffixed with –ship or –hood. The subjects are asked to judge whether each sentence is error-free or faulty. If they decide that a certain sentence is erroneous, they are requested …
The Treatment of Binomials in Monolingual and Bilingual Dictionaries
The paper is intended to be a contribution to lexicographical research. In particular it reports on the findings of an exploratory study on how dictionaries treat binomials, e.g. bread and butter, bolts and nuts, etc. A set of 40 binomials from a preliminary larger list of pairs are selected on the basis of their frequency of occurrence in the British National Corpus (BNC). These binomials are looked up in five paper-based dictionaries: three mon…
"Synchronous online chat" English
This study aims to investigate the linguistic features of e-English, relying on a large corpus of authentic IRC and Yahoo Messenger chat sessions (both public and private). The study concludes that economy is a salient attribute of e-English. Among the other major linguistic features that were detected in this study are: sentences are characteristically short and simple, many words are distorted and truncated in familiar and unfamiliar ways, abbr…
Interacting With Words and Dictionaries
This paper reports the findings of a case study that investigated how 50 Jordanian Arab university students of English interacted with words and dictionaries while reading a specialized text in linguistics. 1 The data was obtained through dictionary use records and structured interviews. The results showed that most of the look-ups were for ‘general’ words. Meaning and pronunciation were the prime purposes of dictionary use. Moreover, the overwhe…
English in the Jordanian Context
The paper explores the status of English in Jordan as reflected in newspaper job advertisements (ads) published in 1985, 1995 and 2005, and English language documents in the educational domain. The study shows a steady increase in the percentage of English ads paralleled with a steady decrease in the percentage of Arabic ads. Further, it reports a significant increase in the percentage of ads that make English proficiency a precondition for emplo…
"Synchronous online chat" English
This study aims to investigate the linguistic features of e-English, relying on a large corpus of authentic IRC and Yahoo Messenger chat sessions (both public and private). The study concludes that economy is a salient attribute of e-English. Among the other major linguistic features that were detected in this study are: sentences are characteristically short and simple, many words are distorted and truncated in familiar and unfamiliar ways, abbr…
Comprehension of Idioms by Jordanian Arabic-Speaking Children
Interacting With Words and Dictionaries
This paper reports the findings of a case study that investigated how 50 Jordanian Arab university students of English interacted with words and dictionaries while reading a specialized text in linguistics. 1 The data was obtained through dictionary use records and structured interviews. The results showed that most of the look-ups were for ‘general’ words. Meaning and pronunciation were the prime purposes of dictionary use. Moreover, the overwhe…
Interacting With Words and Dictionaries
This paper reports the findings of a case study that investigated how 50 Jordanian Arab university students of English interacted with words and dictionaries while reading a specialized text in linguistics. 1 The data was obtained through dictionary use records and structured interviews. The results showed that most of the look-ups were for ‘general’ words. Meaning and pronunciation were the prime purposes of dictionary use. Moreover, the overwhe…
"Synchronous online chat" English
This study aims to investigate the linguistic features of e-English, relying on a large corpus of authentic IRC and Yahoo Messenger chat sessions (both public and private). The study concludes that economy is a salient attribute of e-English. Among the other major linguistic features that were detected in this study are: sentences are characteristically short and simple, many words are distorted and truncated in familiar and unfamiliar ways, abbr…
The Treatment of Binomials in Monolingual and Bilingual Dictionaries
The paper is intended to be a contribution to lexicographical research. In particular it reports on the findings of an exploratory study on how dictionaries treat binomials, e.g. bread and butter, bolts and nuts, etc. A set of 40 binomials from a preliminary larger list of pairs are selected on the basis of their frequency of occurrence in the British National Corpus (BNC). These binomials are looked up in five paper-based dictionaries: three mon…
The Semantics of –ship and -hood from a Foreign Language Learner’s Perspective
This paper reports on the findings of a large-scale study on how a group of EFL learners at university interact with the semantics of -ship and –hood. The data are elicited through a written task consisting of sixteen sentences, each containing a word that is normally suffixed with –ship or –hood. The subjects are asked to judge whether each sentence is error-free or faulty. If they decide that a certain sentence is erroneous, they are requested …
English in the Jordanian Context
The paper explores the status of English in Jordan as reflected in newspaper job advertisements (ads) published in 1985, 1995 and 2005, and English language documents in the educational domain. The study shows a steady increase in the percentage of English ads paralleled with a steady decrease in the percentage of Arabic ads. Further, it reports a significant increase in the percentage of ads that make English proficiency a precondition for emplo…
Newspaper Stories on HIV/Aids in Jordan
The study reported here explored the HIV/AIDS-related lexicon in two mainstream Arabic dailies in Jordan over a period of 21 years. Throughout the time period, the most frequently used term to refer to HIV/AIDS was al-eidz, the Arabicized acronym for 'AIDS'. Both Jordanian and Western media tended to emphasize the role of religion and social values in the fight against HIV/AIDS. The data also showed a significant attitudinal shift, over time, tow…
The Effects of ‘Face’ on Listening Comprehension
Comprehension of Idioms by Jordanian Arabic-Speaking Children
Language Policy and Planning in Algeria
This paper discusses the Berber language situation in Algeria in a language policy and planning context. It comprises two main parts. The first provides a general account of the linguistic profile of Algeria coupled with a historical context of the Berber language and Algerian Arabic. In order to develop a deeper understanding of the present issue, the second section is devoted to the Berber language planning, and the socio-political context of i…
Strategies of Facebook users in offering condolences on a death anniversary
This paper explores the most frequently used strategies by Jordanian Facebook users when commenting on the death anniversary status of Wasfi al-Tal, a former prime minister of Jordan, who was assassinated in 1971. The corpus comprises 530 comments. The findings reveal the use of nine strategies, e.g., praying for God’s mercy, praying for God’s mercy annexed to wishing the deceased an abode in paradise, praying for God’s mercy in combination with …
A Joke Off-hand
Based on a sample of 75 Jokes extracted from YouTube clips which belong to a comic program called ‘A Joke Off-hand’, different Jordanian male age-groups are shown to highly welcome, appreciate, and interact with joke telling in public. The topics of jokes are varied, mainly involving hash-addict (26.66%), marriage (16%), body defects (6.66%), and school (6.66%) jokes. The total absence of political jokes and the very few sexual and religious joke…
Covid-19 Conceptual Metaphors in Jordanian Political Discourse
Conceptual Metaphors are part of human cognition and are essential to human knowledge and experience. The study reported here examines the COVID-19 conceptual metaphors underlying the metaphoric language employed by Jordanian government officials during two periods in 2020, namely from February to May and September to December. To this end, a corpus of official statements (n=213) reported in Al-Rai ‘The Opinion’, an Arabic daily mainstream newspa…
A corpus-based study of corruption metaphors
This study examines the metaphors used to depict corrupt individuals in the context of the Jordanian Hirak protest movement during the Arab Spring (2011–2012). This analysis was conducted using the lens of a Critical Metaphor Analysis (CMA) approach. To this end, a specialized corpus of socio-political articles was built from two mainstream Jordanian newspapers: Al-Rai and Addustour. The corpus was examined using WordSmith Tools, which support Ar…
A Visual Analysis of Male Characters in Disney Animated Movies
This study investigates the visual features of male characters of nine Disney animated movies taken from the last three decades 1990-1999, 2000-2009 and 2010-2019. Aley and Hahn’s (2020) framework of men’s portrayal (developed from Goffman, 1976) is applied. The qualitative analysis reveals that the physical appearance of Disney male characters has changed over time. Body image changed from an unrealistic large body with big muscles to a realisti…
On the Pragmatic Functions of the Idiomatic Expression ‘Tamam’ in Jordanian Arabic
This study investigates the pragmatic functions of the idiomatic expression Tamam (lit. ‘complete’) as used by university students who speak Jordanian Arabic (JA). To this end, the researchers developed an electronic questionnaire that contained 14 different situations/contexts, each illustrating one pragmatic function as identified and determined by the researchers. The questionnaire was distributed electronically via the WhatsApp application to…
Framing the Bisht
This study investigates how Arab and non-Arab online news sources covered the bisht moment during the 2022 FIFA World Cup final. The study's corpus consists of 10 English-language online news reports, evenly split: 5 from Arab and 5 from non-Arab sources, collected from their official websites, to ensure diverse cultural representation and prevent bias. Using Machin and Mayr’s (2012) Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis (MCDA) framework and Van…
The Status of Arabic DaaD /dʕ/ in the Speech of Jordanian Youth
The present study examines the current status of Arabic DaaD /dʕ/ in the speech of Jordanian university students. Data are collected through an articulation test and a reading aloud task. The results show that although rural and Bedouin speakers are more likely to adhere to their own dialectal variants in both informal and formal contexts, both genders are increasingly influenced by the urban dialect, with females leading the change. From a socio…
Conceptual metaphors in Jordanian newspaper socio-political discourse during the Arab Spring
This study aims at identifying and analyzing the metaphors used to describe socio-political concepts in Jordanian Arabic newspapers in the context of the Jordanian protests during the Arab Spring. The analysis also includes the pragmatic functions that these metaphors serve in this context. To this end, a corpus of sociopolitical newspaper opinion articles published in 2011 and 2012 (i.e., the first wave of the Arab Spring) and 2018 and 2019 (i.e…
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