• Ph.D. Linguistics, Department of English, Arizona State University, USA, 2003
• M.A. Translation, Department of English, Yarmouk University, Jordan, 1996
• B.A. English Language and Literature, Yarmouk University, Jordan, 1992

Associate Professor, Department of English Language and Literature, Kuwait University, Kuwait, 10 September, 2023 — present.

Professor (Full), Department of English Language and Linguistics, Jordan University of Science and Technology, Jordan, 19 November 2018 — 9 September, 2023. 

Associate Professor, Department of English Language and Linguistics, Jordan University of Science and Technology, Jordan, 25 August 2016— 18 November 2018. 

Associate Professor, Department of Languages and Literature, American University of Ras Al Khaimah (AURAK), United Arab Emirates, 26 August 2012—16 June 2016.

Associate Professor, Department of English Language and Linguistics, Jordan University of Science and Technology, Jordan, 2 November 2010—25 August 2012. 

Assistant Professor, Department of English Language and Linguistics, Jordan University of Science and Technology, Jordan, 12 January 2004—1 November 2010.

Teaching Assistant, Department of English Language and Linguistics, Jordan University of Science and Technology, Jordan, 1 August 1999 —January 2000

Translator and Editor, Ministry of Information, Jordan, 1997—1999

Teacher of English, Ministry of Education, Jordan, 1994—1997

Pragmatics

Discourse analysis

Discourse studies

Language and culture

Language and society 

(2025). Characteristics of voice onset time among speakers of Jordanian Arabic with Parkinson’s disease. Forum for Linguistic Studies 7 (1): 444–455. 

(2024). Sacrifice, suffering, and memory: The discursive construction of secular martyrdom in contemporary Arab discourse. Contemporary Levant. https://doi.org/10.1080/20581831.2024.2423540

(2024). ‘Where have you been hiding this voice?’: Judges’ compliments on the TV talent show Arab Idol. Pragmatics. https://doi.org/10.1075/prag.22027.mig 

(2024). Birth congratulation messages on Facebook in Jordan: A sociopragmatic analysis. Jordan Journal of Modern Languages and Literatures 16 (1): 161–182.

(2024). Criticizing for the public interest and aligning with others: How Jordanians constructed their online criticisms of lockdown breaches during the COVID-19 pandemic. Pragmatics and Society 15 (4): 557–583.

(2024). Car bumper stickers in Jordan as a site of carnivalesque transgression and degradation. Text & Talk 44 (3): 319–341.

(2023). Self-defence discourse in collectivist cultures: The case of Jordanian tribes defending their members against public accusations of corruption. Journal of Intercultural Communication Research 52 (6): 607–628. 

(2023). A cognitive analysis of white color metaphorization in Algerian Arabic. Theory and Practice in Language Studies 13 (2): 407–416. 

(2022). Invoking divine blessing: The pragmatics of the congratulation speech act in university graduation notebooks in Jordan. Pragmatics 32 (2): 159– 190. 

(2021). Jordanian graduate students’ complaints on Facebook: Semantic formulas and politeness. Lebende Sprachen 66 (1): 144–165.

(2020). Discourses of defense: Self and other positioning in public responses to accusations of corruption in Jordan. Discourse Studies 22 (4): 399–417.

(2020). ‘Like a donkey carrying books’: Intertextuality and impoliteness in Arabic online reader responses. Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict 8 (1): 1–28.

(2018). Acts of positioning in online reader comments on Jordanian news websites. Language & Communication 58: 93–106. 

(2017). Performing acts of impoliteness through code-switching to English in colloquial Jordanian Arabic interactions. Pragmatics and Society 8 (4): 571–600. 

(2017). A semiotic analysis of political cartoons in Jordan in light of the Arab Spring. HUMOR: International Journal of Humor Research 30 (1): 63–95. 

(2016). Between tradition and modernity: The bargaining genre in women’s clothing stores in Jordan. Journal of Pragmatics 101: 118–137.

(2016). Proverbial rhetorical questions in colloquial Jordanian Arabic. Folia Linguistica 50 (1): 207–242. 

(2016). A semiotic analysis of intergeneric borrowings in print advertisements in Jordan. Social Semiotics 26 (1): 36–58.

(2013). The pragmatics of prophet-praise formulas in Jordan. Anthropological Linguistics 55 (1): 61–91.

(2013). Conflict talk and argumentative strategies in highly adversarial talk shows: The case of Al-Jazeera’s The Opposite Direction. Lodz Papers in Pragmatics 9 (1): 93–121.

(2012). Public complaints and complaint responses in calls to a Jordanian radio phone-in program. Applied Linguistics 33 (3): 321–341.

(2011). Carnivalesque politics: A Bakhtinian case study of contemporary Arab political humor. HUMOR: International Journal of Humor Research 24 (3): 305–327.

(2010). The pragmatics of diminutives in colloquial Jordanian Arabic. Journal of Pragmatics 42 (1): 153–167.

(2010). Divine will and its extensions: Communicative functions of maašaallah in colloquial Jordanian Arabic. Communication Monographs 77 (4): 480–499.

(2010). Intertextual borrowings in ideologically competing discourses: The case of the Middle East. Journal of Intercultural Communication 10 (1): 1–13. 

(2009). Exploring the use of rhetorical questions in editorial discourse: A case study of Arabic editorials. Text & Talk 29 (6): 639–659. 

(2009). Gender metaphors in Middle Eastern politics and the Arab receiver. Social Semiotics 19 (3): 293–310.

Chapters in edited books

(2022). The self, the other, the tribe, and the divine: Self-praise discourse in Jordanian Arabic. In: Chaoqun Xie and Ying Tong (eds.), Self-Praise Across Cultures and Contexts, pp. 209–236. Advances in (Im)politeness Studies series. Cham: Springer.

(2020). Identity performance and positioning in online discourse in Jordan. In: Reem Bassiouney and Keith Walters (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Arabic and Identity, pp. 206–217. London and New York: Routledge.

(2020). Formulaic expressions of politeness in Jordanian Arabic social interactions. In: Elisabeth Piirainen, Natalia Filatkina, Sören Stumpf and Christian Pfeiffer (eds.), Formulaic Language and New Data: Theoretical and Methodological Implications, pp. 151–170. Berlin and Boston: Walter de Gruyter.

(2019). “You are not one of us!”: Online responses to the premier’s populist discourse in Jordan. In: Ruth Breeze and Ana María Fernández Vallejo (eds.), Politics and Populism Across Modes and Media, pp. 237–258 [Linguistic Insights Series]. New York: Peter Lang.