Prince Sultan University

List of John Benjamins publications that have an author or editor affiliated with Prince Sultan University*

El-Dakhs, Dina Abdel Salam & Anna Siyanova-Chanturia 2025 How are suggestions formulated in Saudi Arabia and New Zealand?: A cross-cultural pragmatic study

Keywords: speech act | suggestion | Mixed Game Model | pragmatics | cross-cultural research

Language and Dialogue 15:3 pp. 380–410 | article

Sonbul, Suhad, Shaimaa Mohamed Helal, Rezan Alharbi & Dina Abdel Salam El-Dakhs 2025 “White and black” or “black and white”?: Determinants of the natural rendering of binomials in translation tasks

Keywords: binomials | formulaic sequences | congruency | L2 proficiency | translation direction | configuration restrictions | expressions binomiales | binômes | séquences formulaires | congruence | compétence en L2 | direction de la traduction | restrictions de configuration

Babel 71:3 pp. 377–411 | article

El-Dakhs, Dina Abdel Salam, Mervat M. Ahmed & Nahlah Mardini 2025 A pragmatic study of the X complaints and responses to complaints: Focus on British Airways and Saudi Airlines

Keywords: speech act | complaining | responding to complaint | culture | MGM

Language and Dialogue 15:2 pp. 232–261 | article

El-Dakhs, Dina Abdel Salam & Nermine Galal Ibrahim 2023 The realization of the speech acts of complaint and responding to complaint in Vodafone Egypt versus Vodafone UK: A cross-cultural pragmatic study

Keywords: complaint | speech act | cross-cultural pragmatics | Mixed Game Model (MGM)

Language and Dialogue 13:3 pp. 336–363 | article

El-Dakhs, Dina Abdel Salam 2022 Persuasion in health communication: The case of Saudi and Australian tweets on COVID-19 vaccination

Keywords: persuasion | health communication | COVID-19 | social media | culture

In: Science Communication in Times of Crisis, Hohaus, Pascal (ed.) [Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 96] pp. 119–142

El-Dakhs, Dina Abdel Salam 2021 #StayHome – A pragmatic analysis of COVID-19 health advice in Saudi and Australian tweets

Keywords: speech act | advising | health communication | Twitter | mixed game model | Saudi Arabia | Australia

Language and Dialogue 11:2 pp. 223–245 | article

El-Dakhs, Dina Abdel Salam 2021 Compliments and compliment responses in Egyptian and Saudi Arabic: A variational pragmatic comparison

Keywords: compliment | compliment response | speech act | variational pragmatics | Arabic dialects | politeness

Pragmatics and Society 12:4 pp. 537–566 | article

El-Dakhs, Dina Abdel Salam & Mervat M. Ahmed 2021 “What I advise you to do is…”: Giving advice in Egypt. The case of university teachers

Keywords: speech act | advising | pragmatics | university teachers | mixed game model

Language and Dialogue 11:3 pp. 405–432 | article

El-Dakhs, Dina Abdel Salam, Fatima Ambreen, Maria Zaheer & Yulia Gusarova 2019 A pragmatic analysis of the speech act of criticizing in university teacher-student talk: The case of English as a lingua franca

Keywords: pragmatics | English as a lingua franca | criticizing | speech act | teacher-student talk | politeness

Pragmatics 29:4 pp. 493–520 | article | open access

El-Dakhs, Dina Abdel Salam, Jawaher Nasser Al-Haqbani, Manal A. Althaqafi & Shorouq Al-Fouzan 2019 How do Saudis complain?: A dialogue-analytic analysis of the Najdi dialect

Keywords: speech act | complaint | variational pragmatics | Saudi Arabic | Mixed Game Model

Language and Dialogue 9:2 pp. 264–293 | article

El-Dakhs, Dina Abdel Salam 2019 Investigating the apology strategies of Saudi learners of English: Foreign language learning in focus

Keywords: apologizing strategies | EFL/ESL | pragmatic competence | L2 pragmatics | DCT | Saudi Arabic

Pragmatics and Society 9:4 pp. 598–625 | article

El-Dakhs, Dina Abdel Salam 2018 Saying “Yes” and “No” to requests: Is it the same in Egyptian and Saudi Arabic?

Keywords: request refusals | request consent | speech act | pragmatic variation | Arabic

Language and Dialogue 8:2 pp. 235–260 | article

Salam El-Dakhs, Dina Abdel 2017 The compliment response strategies of Egyptian Arabic-English bilinguals

Keywords: compliment response | pragmatics | sociolinguistics | pragmatic competence | foreign language teaching

Language and Dialogue 7:3 pp. 387–412 | article

Elamin, Saadia 2017 Foreign language courses for translation undergraduates: Adapting to changes in translation directionality – A case study: English grammar for Arabic students

Keywords: translation directionality | translation competence | undergraduate programmes | pre-translation courses | L2 production competence | directionnalité de traduction | compétence traductionnelle | programmes universitaires | cours préparatoires à la traduction | production en L2

FORUM 14:2 pp. 239–254 | article

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