Thulfiqar H. Altahmazi
List of John Benjamins publications in which Thulfiqar H. Altahmazi is involved.
Articles
2026 Tracing relevance beyond codes and across modes: A multimodal pragmatic analysis of children’s rights advocacy campaign posters Pragmatics 36:2, pp. 165–191 | Article
Drawing on Relevance Theory, the paper sketches out a framework that accounts for inference-making in creative multimodal texts, taking advocacy campaign posters as its case study. The analysis shows that in each poster semiotic resources are employed to create a micro-narrative exemplifying… read more
2024 Humorous but hateful: Linguistic impoliteness and visual dysphemism in anti-Muslim memes Internet Pragmatics 7:2, pp. 219–248 | Article
The paper explores the interplay of impoliteness, ethnic/religious humor and multimodality in online contexts. The argument advanced in the paper is that anti-Muslim memes are instantiations of ethno-religious humor that creatively incorporate linguistic impoliteness and visual dysphemism in… read more
2016 Fuelling ethno-sectarian conflicts: (De)legitimization and impoliteness in readers’ responses in an Arab online media Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict 4:2, pp. 297–323 | Article
The paper investigates how (de)legitimization and impoliteness are interconnected in the ethno-sectarian conflicts that take place in online news response threads. (De)legitimization is conceptualized as a micro argumentative practice that can index the interlocutors’ sociopolitical stances and… read more