Muhammad A. Badarneh
List of John Benjamins publications in which Muhammad A. Badarneh is involved.
2025 ‘Where have you been hiding this voice?’: Judges’ compliments on the TV talent show Arab Idol Pragmatics 35:3, pp. 395–422 | Article
This study explores compliments given by judges to contestants on the TV talent show Arab Idol. A total of 120 comments from the third season 2014–2015 were analyzed for compliment types, structures, lexicon, and supportive remarks. Spenser-Oatey’s (2000, 2002, 2005a, 2005b, 2008) rapport… read more
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, pp. 557–583 | Article
This study examines the speech act of criticizing in online comments on the COVID-19 lockdown breaches in Jordan in 2020. Drawing on speech act theory and the face-saving perspective of politeness, the study investigates the strategies used to criticize these breaches. The analysis of 356 online… read more
2022 Invoking divine blessing: The pragmatics of the congratulation speech act in university graduation notebooks in Jordan Pragmatics 32:2, pp. 159–190 | Article
This study explores the speech act of congratulation in university graduation notebooks, a new communicative context in Jordan. Using the concept of the pragmeme as a situated speech act, a total of 1064 congratulatory messages, found in 35 notebooks, were analyzed. The analysis demonstrated… read more
2020 ‘Like a donkey carrying books’: Intertextuality and impoliteness in Arabic online reader responses Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict 8:1, pp. 1–28 | Article
This study aims to show how intertextuality is exploited as an impoliteness resource in online reader comments on the website of a London-based pan-Arab Arabic-language daily newspaper. Analysis of 140 reader responses containing impolite references shows that readers called upon and… read more
2017 Performing acts of impoliteness through code-switching to English in colloquial Jordanian Arabic interactions Pragmatics and Society 8:4, pp. 571–600 | Article
This article investigates how English is exploited in naturally occurring interactions in colloquial Jordanian Arabic to perform acts of impoliteness, drawing on impoliteness model by Culpeper (1996), its subsequent modifications in Culpeper et al. (2003) and Culpeper (2005), and its alignment… read more