Dina Abdel Salam El-Dakhs
List of John Benjamins publications in which Dina Abdel Salam El-Dakhs is involved.
2025 How are suggestions formulated in Saudi Arabia and New Zealand? A cross-cultural pragmatic study Language and Dialogue 15:3, pp. 380–410 | Article
The current study compared the realization of the speech act of suggestion between Saudi Arabia and New Zealand. A total of 160 participants took part in the study, half of whom were Saudis (40 identified as males and 40 as females) while the other half were from New Zealand (40 identified as… read more
2025 A pragmatic study of the X complaints and responses to complaints: Focus on British Airways and Saudi Airlines Language and Dialogue 15:2, pp. 232–261 | Article
The current study compares the realization of the speech acts of complaints and responding to complaints by Arabs versus Westerners in the X accounts of British Airways versus Saudi Airlines. We compiled 400 posts from the X accounts of the two airlines and coded them for complaint and… read more
2025 “White and black” or “black and white”? Determinants of the natural rendering of binomials in translation tasks Babel 71:3, pp. 377–411 | Article
Binomial expressions represent one type of formulaic sequences. Binomials have a distinguishing feature, known as “configuration restrictions” (for example, “black and white” is common in English, but “white and black” is not). However, research on how second language (L2) learners process and… read more
2023 The realization of the speech acts of complaint and responding to complaint in Vodafone Egypt versus Vodafone UK: A cross-cultural pragmatic study (Inter)Cultural Dialogues, Săftoiu, Răzvan (ed.), pp. 336–363 | Article
The current study aims to compare the complaints/responses to complaints on the Facebook pages of Vodafone UK versus Vodafone Egypt. 200 complaints and 200 responses to these complaints were collected from the Facebook pages of the two companies in September 2022. The analysis results showed… read more
2022 Chapter 6. Persuasion in health communication: The case of Saudi and Australian tweets on COVID-19 vaccination Science Communication in Times of Crisis, Hohaus, Pascal (ed.), pp. 119–142 | Chapter
This study examined the persuasive strategies employed by the Saudi and Australian departments of health to encourage the public to take the COVID-19 vaccines. I analysed 200 tweets using an adaptation of Dontcheva-Navratilova, Adam, Povolná and Vogel’s (2020) model of persuasion. The results… read more
2021 Compliments and compliment responses in Egyptian and Saudi Arabic: A variational pragmatic comparison Pragmatics and Society 12:4, pp. 537–566 | Article
The current study reports on a variational pragmatic comparison of compliments and compliment responses between Egyptian and Saudi Arabic. Data were collected by using Discourse Completion Tasks from 443 Egyptian and 428 Saudi undergraduates, and were analyzed using adaptations of Yuan’s (2002)… read more
2021 #StayHome – A pragmatic analysis of COVID-19 health advice in Saudi and Australian tweets Language and Dialogue 11:2, pp. 223–245 | Article
The current study aimed to examine how the government departments of health in Saudi Arabia and Australia provided health advice to the public through Twitter during the COVID-19 crisis. To this end, 100 Saudi and 100 Australian tweets were analysed by using Martínez-Flor’s (2003) advice… read more
2021 “What I advise you to do is…”: Giving advice in Egypt. The case of university teachers Language and Dialogue 11:3, pp. 405–432 | Article
The current study aims to examine the realization of the speech act of advising among Egyptian university teachers. To this end, 50 Egyptian university teachers at a private university completed eight role-plays in which they gave solicited advice to their fellow teachers. The role-plays were… read more
2019 A pragmatic analysis of the speech act of criticizing in university teacher-student talk: The case of English as a lingua franca Pragmatics 29:4, pp. 493–520 | Article
The current study examined the realization of the speech act of criticizing by university teachers in their talk with students. To this end, role-plays were conducted with 60 university teachers (30 males and 30 females) at a private Saudi university which is characterized by its multicultural… read more
2019 How do Saudis complain? A dialogue-analytic analysis of the Najdi dialect Language and Dialogue 9:2, pp. 264–293 | Article
The current study adopts a dialogue-analytic approach to the examination of complaint behavior in Saudi Arabic as spoken in the Najd region, the central region of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. To this end, role-plays with 120 Saudi nationals who are Najdi-speakers were recorded and transcribed.… read more
2018 Saying “Yes” and “No” to requests: Is it the same in Egyptian and Saudi Arabic? Language and Dialogue 8:2, pp. 235–260 | Article
The current study adopts a variational pragmatic approach to compare the dialogic sequence of the directive speech act of request and its reaction of consent versus refusal in Egyptian and Saudi Arabic. To this end, 413 Egyptian and Saudi undergraduate students completed a Discourse Completion… read more
2018 Investigating the apology strategies of Saudi learners of English: Foreign language learning in focus Pragmatics and Society 9:4, pp. 598–625 | Article
The present study examines the apologetic behavior of Saudi learners of English in a foreign language learning context. The study also investigates the influence of language exposure, gender, distance and dominance on the learners’ apologies. To this end, a Discourse Completion Test was… read more
2017 The compliment response strategies of Egyptian Arabic-English bilinguals Language and Dialogue 7:3, pp. 387–412 | Article
The present study examined the compliment response behaviour of Egyptian Arabic-English bilinguals in both spoken Egyptian Arabic and English. A total of 433 undergraduates completed the Arabic and English versions of a Discourse Completion Task comprising 12 imaginary situations that varied in… read more