Fethi Helal
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 659420 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Fethi Helal |
| PRENOMES | Fethi |
| SOBRENOME | Helal |
| ASSINATURA | HELAL F |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Manouba University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1259-9551 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 6 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 9 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 6 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2014 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Discursive struggles around constitutional reform
Multilingualism in linguistic landscapes in Tunisia
Taking a multi-level perspective on language-in-public-space policy, this study investigates the way Tunisia’s dominant languages are dealt with in three independent but interrelated activities of language policy: official texts, public talk, and the actual practices of business actors in five commercial districts in metropolitan Tunis. Detailed critical discourse analysis of these policy activities indicated considerable tension between official…
“Eat Me! Eat Me! tounsi”
Aims and objectives: This paper investigates the diffusion of English into the linguistic ecologies of Tunisia, an Expanding Outer Circle society in North Africa. It analyzes the language practices of Tunisian business operators in five commercial localities in metropolitan Tunis. The paper focuses, in particular, on the uses of English and its interaction with Tunisia’s dominant languages, the ways the resources of English are locally understood…
The people want
This paper combines insights from Deictic Space Theory and Conceptual Metaphor Theory to analyze the Tunisian President's inaugural speech following his victory in the October 2019 elections. Detailed critical discourse analysis of the deictic exponents and the metaphorical image schemas employed in the text showed a Manichean opposition between the pure/good people (Us) versus the corrupt/evil 'elites' (Them), nostalgia to a pristine revolutiona…
The discursive construction of ideologies and national identity in post-revolutionary Tunisia (2011–2017)
In postcolonial countries the bilingual/bicultural elite played an undeniable role in the propagation of a modernist ideology about the nation and national identity. In Tunisia and in the wake of the so-called Arab Spring, this ideology has been seriously challenged by opposing discourses. Focusing on newspaper articles published by Tunisian Francophones, this article investigates the discursive strategies employed by this group to defend this id…
Genres, styles and discourse communities in global communicative competition
This article compares the rhetorical strategies employed by American and French scientists in the research article introductions published by both research teams during the so-called ‘AIDS War’ (1983-1987). The controversy concerned priority rights for the discovery of the AIDS virus. Using Swales’s (1990) CARS model as a comparative template, the results indicated that while the Americans proceeded with a deductive, bold and highly elaborated pa…
The people want
This paper combines insights from Deictic Space Theory and Conceptual Metaphor Theory to analyze the Tunisian President's inaugural speech following his victory in the October 2019 elections. Detailed critical discourse analysis of the deictic exponents and the metaphorical image schemas employed in the text showed a Manichean opposition between the pure/good people (Us) versus the corrupt/evil 'elites' (Them), nostalgia to a pristine revolutiona…
The discursive construction of ideologies and national identity in post-revolutionary Tunisia (2011–2017)
In postcolonial countries the bilingual/bicultural elite played an undeniable role in the propagation of a modernist ideology about the nation and national identity. In Tunisia and in the wake of the so-called Arab Spring, this ideology has been seriously challenged by opposing discourses. Focusing on newspaper articles published by Tunisian Francophones, this article investigates the discursive strategies employed by this group to defend this id…
Genres, styles and discourse communities in global communicative competition
This article compares the rhetorical strategies employed by American and French scientists in the research article introductions published by both research teams during the so-called ‘AIDS War’ (1983-1987). The controversy concerned priority rights for the discovery of the AIDS virus. Using Swales’s (1990) CARS model as a comparative template, the results indicated that while the Americans proceeded with a deductive, bold and highly elaborated pa…
The discursive construction of ideologies and national identity in post-revolutionary Tunisia (2011–2017)
In postcolonial countries the bilingual/bicultural elite played an undeniable role in the propagation of a modernist ideology about the nation and national identity. In Tunisia and in the wake of the so-called Arab Spring, this ideology has been seriously challenged by opposing discourses. Focusing on newspaper articles published by Tunisian Francophones, this article investigates the discursive strategies employed by this group to defend this id…
The people want
This paper combines insights from Deictic Space Theory and Conceptual Metaphor Theory to analyze the Tunisian President's inaugural speech following his victory in the October 2019 elections. Detailed critical discourse analysis of the deictic exponents and the metaphorical image schemas employed in the text showed a Manichean opposition between the pure/good people (Us) versus the corrupt/evil 'elites' (Them), nostalgia to a pristine revolutiona…
Multilingualism in linguistic landscapes in Tunisia
Taking a multi-level perspective on language-in-public-space policy, this study investigates the way Tunisia’s dominant languages are dealt with in three independent but interrelated activities of language policy: official texts, public talk, and the actual practices of business actors in five commercial districts in metropolitan Tunis. Detailed critical discourse analysis of these policy activities indicated considerable tension between official…
“Eat Me! Eat Me! tounsi”
Aims and objectives: This paper investigates the diffusion of English into the linguistic ecologies of Tunisia, an Expanding Outer Circle society in North Africa. It analyzes the language practices of Tunisian business operators in five commercial localities in metropolitan Tunis. The paper focuses, in particular, on the uses of English and its interaction with Tunisia’s dominant languages, the ways the resources of English are locally understood…
Discursive struggles around constitutional reform
Linguistics (6 obras) · Sociology (6 obras) · Law (5 obras) · Political science (5 obras) · Ideology (4 obras) · Linguistic and Sociocultural Studies (4 obras) · Politics (4 obras) · Commodification (2 obras) · Critical discourse analysis (2 obras) · Economy (2 obras)