Mohammed Nahar Al-Ali
List of John Benjamins publications for which Mohammed Nahar Al-Ali plays a role.
2023 The role of multimodality and intertextuality in accentuating humor in Algerian Hirak ’s posters Pragmatics: Online-First Articles | Article
This study investigates how the interaction between multimodal modes and intertextual resources accentuates humor functions. Kress and van Leeuwen’s Visual Grammar (2006) was adopted to analyze a set of sixty humorous online posters of Hirak’s movements. The results revealed that humor was… read more
2023 How to get more views: An analysis of metadiscoursal and discoursal linguistic cues in Arabic clickbait headlines Internet Pragmatics: Online-First Articles | Article
The study aims to examine how the interactional and interactive linguistic aspects are utilized to qualify the discoursal propositions of Arabic clickbaits to secure viewers’ responsive clicks to thumbnails. To this end, one hundred Arabic YouTube clickbait headlines were selected from five… read more
2022 Discoursal representation of masculine parenting in Arabic and English websites Pragmatics 32:3, pp. 403–425 | Article
The purpose of this study is to investigate the differences and similarities between Arabic and English parents’ role in Arabic and English parenting website texts and the linguistic exponents used to address parents and signal their roles, and to find out the socio-cultural ideologies that have… read more
2022 Mitigating requesting acts by deaf Jordanian adults Pragmatics and Society 13:4, pp. 663–683 | Article
The purpose of this study is to investigate the linguistic mitigating devices that deaf Jordanian adults use when making requests. To this end, a sample of 52 people (of whom 26 were hearing and 26 were deaf) was collected through a Discourse Completion Task (DCT). It was found that the two… read more
2021 The functional components of telephone conversation opening phase in Jordanian Arabic Pragmatics 31:1, pp. 6–32 | Article
Our study purports to examine the rhetorical structure of informal telephone conversation opening phase in Jordanian Arabic and the lexico-grammatical and stylistic encodings of these pragmatic options. To this end, a corpus of 100 telephone conversation recordings was collected from Jordanian… read more
2018 A genre-pragmatic analysis of Arabic academic book reviews (ArBRs) Pragmatics 28:2, pp. 159–183 | Article
This study aims to investigate the rhetorical genre components and the pragmatic evaluation options used to articulate the communicative function of ArBR genre, and find out how these generic and evaluation options contrast with those reported in other languages and cultures. To this end, a… read more
2015 Struggling to retain the functions of passive when translating English thesis abstracts Pragmatics 25:2, pp. 129–148 | Article
The thesis abstract, as a genre has a set of communicative functions mutually-understood by established members of the academic community. A vast majority of translation studies of source language (SL) and target language (TL) equivalence seems to have overlooked the inherent relationship between… read more
2010 Generic patterns and socio-cultural resources in acknowledgements accompanying Arabic Ph.D. dissertations Pragmatics 20:1, pp. 1–26 | Article
Even though the acknowledgement genre is a common practice in Arabic scholarly texts, this area is largely neglected in academic research. The present study examines the generic structure and the linguistic patterns of gratitude expressions used in acknowledegments accompanying the Arabic Ph.D.… read more