University of Jordan

List of John Benjamins publications that have an author or editor affiliated with University of Jordan*

Jarrah, Marwan 2026 Review of A grammar of Jordanian Arabic by Bruno Herin & Enam Al-Wer (2025)

Arabic Linguistics | Online First Publication, 5 pp. | book review

Alkhawaldeh, Amal, Basem Al-Raba’a & Abdel Rahman Altakhaineh 2026 On the grammaticalization of raːħ: Semantic and social variation

Keywords: grammaticalization of raːħ | linguistic variation | urban Jordanian Arabic

Linguistic Variation | Online First Publication, 28 pp. | article

Alalya, Muna, Aseel Zibin & Abdel Rahman Mitib Altakhaineh 2026 The silent order: Gestural emblems and symbolic meaning-making in Jordanian street coffee shops

Keywords: gestures | semiotics | jordanian culture | symbolic interactionism | coffee

Gesture | Online First Publication, 29 pp. | article

Jarrah, Marwan & Sukayna Ali 2026 Bridging meaning and context: A pragmatic study of parenthetical explications in Qur’anic translation

Keywords: Quran translation | parenthetical material | explicature enrichment | pragmatics | contextual interpretation | translation strategies | traduction du Coran | matériel parenthétique | enrichissement explicaturiel | pragmatique | interprétation contextuelle | stratégies de traduction

Babel | Online First Publication, 26 pp. | article

Hamdan, Jihad M. & Ronza Nayef Abu Rumman 2025 Conceptual metaphors in Jordanian newspaper socio-political discourse during the Arab Spring

Keywords: Arab Spring | conceptual metaphors | Jordan | metaphorical expressions | sociopolitical

Pragmatics and Society 17:1 pp. 66–91 | article

Burohaima, Lobna, Ghaleb Rabab’ah & Sanaa Benmessaoud 2024 Translating Arabic allusions into English: For a hermeneutic approach

Keywords: key-phrase allusions | hermeneutic approach | intertextuality | translation of allusion | phrase-clé | allusions | approche herméneutique | intertextualité | traduction des allusions

Babel 71:2 pp. 170–193 | article

Jarrah, Marwan & Rasheed Al-Jarrah 2023 Translating explicatures between Arabic and English: Completing logical forms and calculating pragmatic competence and metalinguistic knowledge

Keywords: explicature | logical form | translation | relevance theory

Babel 69:2 pp. 188–215 | article

Jarrah, Marwan 2023 Morphological case, ɸ-agreement, and overt movement interactions in Arabic grammar

Keywords: agree | case | interface conditions | overt movement

In: Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics XXXIV: Papers form the Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics, Tucson, Arizona, 2020, Azaz, Mahmoud (ed.) [Studies in Arabic Linguistics, 12] pp. 105–124

Zibin, Aseel, Abdel Rahman Mitib Altakhaineh & Hady Jihad Hamdan 2022  love and beloved metaphors in Jordanian Arabic and English songs: A cognitive linguistic study

Keywords: cognitive linguistics | semantics | metaphor | emotions | culture

Metaphor and the Social World 12:2 pp. 318–339 | article

Khalifah, Lama & Aseel Zibin 2022 Arabic-English metaphor translation from a cognitive linguistic perspective: Evidence from Naguib Mahfuz Midaq Alley and its translated version

Keywords: conceptual metaphor theory | cognitive translation hypothesis | conceptual mappings | translation | culture | métaphore conceptuelle | approche cognitivo-culturelle | cartes conceptuelles | traduction

Babel 68:6 pp. 860–889 | article

Jarrah, Marwan & Ekab Al-Shawashreh 2022 Remnant-movement analysis of questions with final wh-words in Jordanian Arabic

Keywords: Jordanian Arabic | left periphery | remnant movement | wh-movement

In: Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics XXXIII: Papers selected from the Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics, Toronto, Canada, 2019, Ali, Abdel-Khalig & Atiqa Hachimi (eds.) [Studies in Arabic Linguistics, 11] pp. 147–166

Zibin, Aseel 2021 Blood metaphors and metonymies in Jordanian Arabic and English

Keywords: Cognitive Linguistics | metaphor | metonymy | blood | corpus

Review of Cognitive Linguistics 19:1 pp. 26–50 | article

Hamdan, Hady J. & Radwan S. Mahadin 2021 Disagreement realizations in Arabic: Evidence from the University of Jordan

Keywords: Arabic | disagreement strategies | Jordan | ODCT | pragmatics

Pragmatics and Society 12:3 pp. 349–372 | article

Zibin, Aseel 2020 A corpus-based study of metaphors used to describe Syrian refugees in Jordanian politico-economic discourse: A critical metaphor analysis approach

Keywords: Cognitive Linguistics | corpus linguistics | metaphor | critical metaphor analysis | pragmatics | discourse analysis | Syrian refugees

Pragmatics and Society 11:4 pp. 640–663 | article

Al-Yasin, Noor F. & Ghaleb A. Rabab'ah 2019 Arabic audiovisual translation of taboo words in American hip hop movies: A contrastive study

Keywords: audio-visual translation (AVT) | connotation | subtitles | taboo | translation | traduction audiovisuelle (TAV) | connotation | sous-titres | tabou | traduction

Babel 65:2 pp. 222–248 | article

Zibin, Aseel & Abdel Rahman Mitib Salim Altakhaineh 2018 An analysis of Arabic metaphorical and/or metonymical compounds: A cognitive linguistic approach

Keywords: Arabic compounds | blending theory | conceptual metaphor theory | conventionality | corpus | metaphor | metonymy.

Metaphor and the Social World 8:1 pp. 100–133 | article

Zibin, Aseel 2018 The effect of the Arab Spring on the use of metaphor and metonymy in Jordanian economic discourse: A cognitive approach

Keywords: Conceptual Metaphor Theory | metaphor | metonymy | economic discourse | corpus linguistics

Review of Cognitive Linguistics 16:1 pp. 254–298 | article

Alghazo, Sharif 2017 Alene Moyer. (2013) Foreign accent. The phenomenon of non-native speech

Journal of Second Language Pronunciation 3:1 pp. 149–151 | book review

Alghazo, Sharif 2017 T. M. Derwing and M. J. Munro, Pronunciation Fundamentals: Evidence-based Perspectives for L2 Teaching and Research

Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 40:1 p. 96 | book review

Hamdan, Jihad M. & Yaser S. Natour 2015 Gender of cited authors: A problem for the English-Arabic translation of scholarly research

Babel 60:3 pp. 265–280 | article

Bakir, Murtadha J. 2014 The multifunctionality of fii in Gulf Pidgin Arabic

Keywords: general negator | predication marker | fii/maafii | multifunctionality | Gulf Pidgin Arabic | grammaticalization | existential

Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 29:2 pp. 410–436 | article

Rabab'ah, Ghaleb Ahmed 2008 Communication strategies in translation

Babel 54:2 p. 97 | article

Ibrahim, Muhammad H. 1984  The History of Linguistics in the Near East. Ed. by Cornelis H(enricus) M(aria) Versteegh, Konrad Koerner, and Hans-J(osef) Niederehe

Historiographia Linguistica 11:3 pp. 484–491 | book review

Abuhamdia, Zakaria A. 1984 English Departments at Arab Universities: Toward a "Planning-based Model"

Language Problems and Language Planning 8:1 pp. 21–34 | article

*Please note that this list may be inaccurate for older publications.