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A Case Study of Construct State Nominals: Extending the Predication Approach

Choueiri, Lina (Brill Academic Publishers, 2014)

This paper deals with a class of non-canonical construct state nominals, whose annex is non-nominal. More specifically, it examines the properties these non-canonical constructs share with canonical construct state nominals, ...
A serious television trickster: Ken Saro-Wiwa’s political and artistic legacy in Basi and Company

Hodapp, James M. (Routledge, 2018)

Ken Saro-Wiwa has attracted both popular and scholarly recognition as a significant Nigerian writer and activist. Despite this interest, the television programme Basi and Company that he wrote and directed from 1985 to ...
Arab-Levantine personality structure: A psycholexical study of modern standard Arabic in Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, and the West Bank

Zeinoun, Pia; Daouk-Öyry, Lina; Choueiri, Lina; Van De Vijver, Fons J.R. (Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2018)

Objective: The debate of whether personality traits are universal or culture-specific has been informed by psycholexical (or lexical) studies conducted in tens of languages and cultures. We contribute to this debate through ...
Beiruti linguistic landscape: an analysis of private store fronts

Karam, Fares J.; Warren, Amber N.; Kibler, Amanda K.; Shweiry, Zinnia (Routledge, 2020)

After the end of the civil war in 1990, a major reconstruction effort was underway in Beirut, the capital of Lebanon. With reconstruction came significant changes to the city’s landscape and identity. Adopting a linguistic ...
Drawing on indigenous criteria for more authentic assessment in a specific-purpose language test: Health professionals interacting with patients

Pill, John (SAGE Publications Ltd, 2016)

The indigenous assessment practices (Jacoby & McNamara, 1999) in selected health professions were investigated to inform a review of the scope of assessment in the speaking sub-test of a specific purpose English language ...
Emma, Emperor and Evangelist: The Production of Authority in the Frontispiece to British Library, MS Additional 33241

Maude, Kathryn (University of Illinois Press, 2023)
Extending the scope of speaking assessment criteria in a specific-purpose language test: Operationalizing a health professional perspective

O'Hagan, Sally; Pill, John; Zhang, Ying (SAGE Publications Ltd, 2015)

Criticism of specific-purpose language (LSP) tests is often directed at their limited ability to represent fully the demands of the target language use situation. Such criticisms extend to the criteria used to assess test ...
God Terms and Activity Systems: A Definition of Religion for Political Science

Allen, Ira J.; Allen, Saul (SAGE Publications Inc., 2016)

Political science struggles, sometimes more than it knows, to study religion's relationship with politics, democratic and otherwise. The difficulty is in part theoretical. This paper synthesizes diverse strains in recent ...
Having the cake and eating it too: The secret ingredients of code-switching in a girl made of dust

Hout, Syrine C. (West Chester University, 2021)
How Changed? Milton, Vida, Vergil, and a Network of Allusion

Currell, David (Edinburgh University Press, 2021)

Satan's first words in Paradise Lost (‘how changed | From him’) famously allude to Book 2 of the Æneid. Interpretations of Satan's character and of the relationship between Milton's epic and its precursor have been enriched ...
How much is enough? Involving occupational experts in setting standards on a specific-purpose language test for health professionals

Pill, John; McNamara, Tim F. (SAGE Publications Ltd, 2015)

This paper considers how to establish the minimum required level of professionally relevant oral communication ability in the medium of English for health practitioners with English as an additional language (EAL) to gain ...
Interrogating the construct of communicative competence in language assessment contexts: What the non-language specialist can tell us

Elder, Catherine; McNamara, Tim F.; Kim, Hyejeong; Pill, John; Sato, Takanori (Elsevier Ltd, 2017)

Models of communicative competence in a second language invoked in defining the construct of widely used tests of communicative language ability have drawn largely on the work of language specialists. The risk of exclusive ...
Jabra Ibrahim Jabra’s suitcase: Carrying modernism and exile across borders from Palestine into Iraq

Mejcher-Atassi, Sonja (Intellect Ltd., 2023)

In ‘The Palestinian exile as writer’, Jabra Ibrahim Jabra gives a brief description of his suitcase that he carried over from his life in Palestine before the Nakba of 1948 to his life in Iraq thereafter. Reading his ...
Language policies in education in Qatar between 2003 and 2012: from local to global then back to local

Mustafawi, Eiman; Shaaban, Kassim A. (Springer Netherlands, 2019)

The State of Qatar, in cooperation with the RAND Corporation, launched in 2002 an ambitious educational reform and development plan, Education for a New Era, which included, among other things, the instating of English as ...
Language test as boundary object: Perspectives from test users in the healthcare domain

Macqueen, Susy; Pill, John; Knoch, Ute (SAGE Publications Ltd, 2016)

Objects that sit between intersecting social worlds, such as Language for Specific Purposes (LSP) tests, are boundary objects dynamic, historically derived mechanisms which maintain coherence between worlds (Star & Griesemer, ...
Lebanese youth narratives: a bleak post-war landscape

Khalaf, Roseanne Saad (2014)

To identify the themes that define the lives of a generation living in a conflict-ridden post-war society, I explore the changing views of Lebanese students through an analysis of the personal narrative texts that they ...
Marshall McLuhan’s theory of attention: How to become a media psychonaut

Landes, David (Intellect Ltd., 2020)

In light of surging cross-disciplinary interest in rethinking the conceptions of attention and attention economy, this article conducts an archaeology of Marshall McLuhan’s concepts in order to construct a theory of attention ...
Marxism and African literary studies today

Fyfe, Alexander (Routledge, 2020)

This introduction to the special issue, ‘Marxism and African Literatures: New Interventions,’ argues for the continued relevance of Marxist approaches within African literary studies. After a discussion of the place of ...
Meditations on Mediation: John Milton and the Muslim Jesus

Currell, David (Routledge, 2015)

This paper explores theological and textual confluences between John Milton and Islamic theology. Rather than argue for the direct influence of Islamic sources on Milton, a series of historical and intellectual contexts ...
Milton and Islam: Bridging Cultures

Currell, David; Gleyzon, François Xavier (Routledge, 2015)

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