Muhammad A. Badarneh
List of John Benjamins publications for which Muhammad A. Badarneh plays a role.
Articles
2022. Invoking divine blessing: The pragmatics of the congratulation speech act in university graduation notebooks in Jordan. Pragmatics 32:2, pp. 159–190
This study explores the speech act of congratulation in university graduation notebooks, a new communicative context in Jordan. Using the concept of the pragmeme as a situated speech act, a total of 1064 congratulatory messages, found in 35 notebooks, were analyzed. The analysis demonstrated that… read more | Article
2020. ‘Like a donkey carrying books’: Intertextuality and impoliteness in Arabic online reader responses. Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict 8:1, pp. 1–28
This study aims to show how intertextuality is exploited as an impoliteness resource in online reader comments on the website of a London-based pan-Arab Arabic-language daily newspaper. Analysis of 140 reader responses containing impolite references shows that readers called upon and appropriated… read more | Article
2017. Performing acts of impoliteness through code-switching to English in colloquial Jordanian Arabic interactions. Pragmatics and Society 8:4, pp. 571–600
This article investigates how English is exploited in naturally occurring interactions in colloquial Jordanian Arabic to perform acts of impoliteness, drawing on impoliteness model by Culpeper (1996), its subsequent modifications in Culpeper et al. (2003) and Culpeper (2005), and its alignment with… read more | Article