King Saud University

List of John Benjamins publications that have an author or editor affiliated with King Saud University*

Title

Embodiment via Body Parts: Studies from various languages and cultures

Edited by Zouheir Maalej & Ning Yu

Subjects Cognition and language | Cognitive linguistics | Typology

[Human Cognitive Processing: Cognitive Foundations of Language Structure and Use, 31] 2011. ix, 258 pp. | edited volume

Alghbban, Mohammed I. 2025  Head metaphors and metonymies in two dialects of Arabic: A cognitive linguistic approach

Keywords: cultural cognition | cultural values | mental faculty | metaphor | embodied metonymy | personal attributes

Review of Cognitive Linguistics | Online First Publication, 25 pp. | article

Dunn, Shannon & Asma Alshehri 2025 Research ethics awareness among practitioner-researchers of an intensive English as a foreign language program

Keywords: questionable research practices | applied linguistics | Q-methodology | responsible research conduct | practitioner-researchers | ethics

Journal of Second Language Studies 8:2 pp. 313–343 | article

Alkhatnai, Mubarak 2025 The role of artificial intelligence tools in mediating Sino-Arab cultural exchanges through intercultural translation

Keywords: AI-powered translation | machine translation | users’ perceptions | perceived accuracy | Chinese-Arabic language pair | intercultural translation | traduction assistée par l’IA | traduction automatique | perceptions des utilisateurs | précision perçue | paire linguistique chinois-arabe | traduction interculturelle

Babel 71:6 pp. 740–769 | article

Almusallam, Inas I. 2024 “Not everything is on the hostess”: Cooperative hospitality among Saudi female friends

Keywords: friends talk, hospitality | cooperative | community of practice | Arabs | relational work | offer | neo-Brown and Levinson

Pragmatics and Society 15:5 pp. 682–707 | article

BinSultan, Nora & Eithar Alangari 2024 Paratextual framing of trans-edited Saudi news reports on the BBC and the Xinhua (2023)

Keywords: news paratexts | Saudi Arabia | trans-editing | narrative theory | sports | paratextes dans l’actualité | Arabie Saoudite | trans-édition | théorie narrative | sports

Babel 71:2 pp. 155–169 | article

Almalki, Hanan & Neomy Storch 2023 Online collaborative L2 writing: Using synchronous and asynchronous tools with Arabic as a second language learners

Keywords: collaborative writing | Google Docs | WhatsApp | patterns of interaction | Arabic learners

In: L2 Collaborative Writing in Diverse Learning Contexts, Li, Mimi & Meixiu Zhang (eds.) [Language Learning & Language Teaching, 59] pp. 130–154

Aldokhayel, Reyadh 2021 Language evolution from a cognitive-grammar perspective: The rise of the Arabic clause

Keywords: cognitive grammar | existential core | language evolution | case marking | Arabic

Review of Cognitive Linguistics 19:2 pp. 429–464 | article

Storch, Neomy & Ali Alshuraidah 2020 Languaging when providing and processing peer feedback

Keywords: collaborative writing | peer response activities | collaborative dialogue | quality of engagement | languaging episodes

In: Languaging in Language Learning and Teaching: A collection of empirical studies, Suzuki, Wataru & Neomy Storch (eds.) [Language Learning & Language Teaching, 55] pp. 111–128

Almoaily, Mohammad 2020 Impact of age and gender on frequency of interruption in dyadic interviews

Keywords: interruption | language and gender | language variation | turn-taking | dominance

Interaction Studies 21:2 pp. 187–199 | article

Albuhayri, Salem & Hamid Ouali 2020 The complementizer layer in Standard Arabic revisited

Keywords: left periphery | verum | complementizer agreement

In: Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics XXXII: Papers from the Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics, Tempe, Arizona, 2018, van Gelderen, Elly (ed.) [Studies in Arabic Linguistics, 9] pp. 109–134

Alfayez, Hassna M. & Julia Hüttner 2019 Women students from Saudi Arabia in a study abroad programme: Sociocultural experiences and English proficiency development

Keywords: cultural and social interaction | second language proficiency | fluency

Study Abroad Research in Second Language Acquisition and International Education 4:2 pp. 193–223 | article

Aldholmi, Yahya & Hanyong Park 2019 Interactions between temporal acoustics and indexical information in speech rate perception

Keywords: speech rate | temporal acoustics | indexical information | perception | pauses

In: Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics XXXI: Papers from the Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics, Norman, Oklahoma, 2017, Khalfaoui, Amel & Youssef Haddad (eds.) [Studies in Arabic Linguistics, 8] pp. 235–262

Al-Dobaian, Abdullah S. 2018 Arabic synthetic compounds

Keywords: Arabic synthetic compounds | lexical morphology | English compounds | theta-role | regular inflections in compounds

Language and Linguistics 19:1 pp. 32–60 | article | open access

Al-Abdullatif, Mohammed 2018 The Qur’an translatability: The translation’s invisibility

Keywords: translatability | cultural translatability | object centred text | i ʿjaz | tajweed | linguocentrism | sonority issues | traduisibilité | traduisibilité culturelle | texte centré sur l’objet | i ʿjaz | tajweed | linguocentrisme | problèmes de sonorité

Babel 64:2 pp. 205–224 | article

Salamh, Sami Ben, Zouheir Maalej & Mohammed Alghbban 2018 To be or not to be your son’s father/mother: A cognitive-pragmatic perspective on terms of address in Najdi and Tunisian Arabic

Keywords: Idealized | non-Idealized | teknonym | Si/Lalla+first name | horizontality | verticality | metaphor | metonymy

Pragmatics 28:1 pp. 29–60 | article | open access

Al-Azzam, Bakri & Aladdin Al-Kharabsheh 2014 The theme of fakhr (self-exaltation) in the translation of Antara’s Mu‘allaqa

Keywords: Mu‘allaqat | translation erroneousness | socio-cultural context | Fakhr (self-exaltation) | reader’s response | spatio-temporal context

Babel 59:3 pp. 288–309 | article

Al-Rasheed, Abdulrahman S., Humood H. Al-Sharif, Mohammed J. Thabit, Norah S. Al-Mohimeed & Ian R.L. Davies 2011 Basic colour terms of Arabic

In: New Directions in Colour Studies, Biggam, Carole P., Carole Hough, Christian Kay & David R. Simmons (eds.)  pp. 53–58

Maalej, Zouheir 2011 Figurative dimensions of 3ayn ‘eye’ in Tunisian Arabic

In: Embodiment via Body Parts: Studies from various languages and cultures, Maalej, Zouheir & Ning Yu (eds.) [Human Cognitive Processing: Cognitive Foundations of Language Structure and Use, 31] pp. 213–240

Maalej, Zouheir & Ning Yu 2011 Introduction: Embodiment via body parts

In: Embodiment via Body Parts: Studies from various languages and cultures, Maalej, Zouheir & Ning Yu (eds.) [Human Cognitive Processing: Cognitive Foundations of Language Structure and Use, 31] pp. 1–20

Aldwayan, Saad, Robert Fiorentino & Alison Gabriele 2010 Evidence of syntactic constraints in the processing of wh-movement: A study of Najdi Arabic learners of English

In: Research in Second Language Processing and Parsing, VanPatten, Bill & Jill Jegerski (eds.) [Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 53] pp. 65–86

Shiyab, Said 1999 The Difficulty of Translating Literary Texts

Babel 45:3 pp. 205–216 | article

Atari, Omar F. 1994 The place of communicative strategies in translating

Babel 40:2 pp. 65–76 | article

Bakalla, M. H. 1981 The Treatment of Nasal Elements by Early Arab and Muslim Phoneticians

Historiographia Linguistica 8:2/3 pp. 285–305 | article

*Please note that this list may be inaccurate for older publications.