Barriers to Intercultural Communication

By Sarah Abdelbary 

 

The global movements of populations causes differences to emerge within cultures, which intensifies the challenges expatriates face to achieve effective intercultural communication. Moreover, owing...Read more 

 

Libyan Arabic: Issues in Language Contact and Identity

By Nahla Elsubeihi

 

In her personal novel, Lost in Translation, Eva Hoffman writes: “It’s not that we all want to speak the King’s English, but whether we speak Appalachian or Harlem English, or Cockney, or Jamaican Creole...Read more 

 

Talk vs. Speak: A Corpus Investigation

By Sarah Abdelbary 

 

Often, linguists identify synonyms through substitution and interchangeability, while others rely on the difference in meaning between the two synonyms. However, such methods are not enough to provide....Read more