Nouran Tarek Soliman

Transitivity, verbal humour and the construction of identity in Trevor Noah’s narratives

Authors: Nouran Tarek Soliman, Rabia Abdul-Salim Madhi

Publisher: Insights into Language, Culture and Communication (ILCC), Academy Publishing Center (APC), Arab Academy for Science, Technology and Maritime Transport (AASTMT)

DOI: 10.21622/ILCC.2024.04.2.1058

An eclectic discourse analysis of Trevor Noah’s Son of Patricia stand-up comedy and Born a Crime memoir, examining how racial identity, social commentary, and humor are constructed through language. Combines the Hallidayan Transitivity model with the General Theory of Verbal Humor (GTVH) across qualitative and quantitative data.

Investigating language ideologies and attitudes toward dubbing Disney movies into Arabic

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Analyzes metalinguistic stance-taking in Facebook discussions about Disney dubbing into Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) and Egyptian Colloquial Arabic (ECA), combined with a verbal-guise technique (VGT) experiment. Reveals divergent language attitudes across Maghreb, Mashreq, and Arab Peninsula communities, with ECA emerging as a strong competitor to MSA in prestige and naturalness.

Language Ideologies and Attitudes Towards Dubbing Disney Movies into Arabic

Publisher: AUC Knowledge Fountain

Master’s thesis examining online stance-taking and indirect language attitudes among Arab social media users regarding Disney dubbing into MSA and ECA. The VGT experiment revealed that Mashreq and Peninsula respondents showed closer language attitudes to each other than to Maghreb counterparts, offering nuanced regional insight into Arabic language ideology.