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