Curriculum Vitae

Personal Data

First name: Zouhair                                           Family name: Maalej

Sex: Male

Date/Place of Birth: 29 April 1954/ Sfax – Tunisia

Nationality: Tunisian

Marital Status: Married with two children.

Work address:

College of Languages & Translation
King Saud University
P.O. Box 87907, Riyadh 11652, KSA

Office phone: (+966) 1-497015 (Office 2127)
Mobile: (+966) 054-285-3684

Emails: zmaalej@ksu.edu.sa; zouhairmaalej@gmail.com; zmaalej@gnet.tn

URL: http://faculty.ksa.edu.sa/zmaalej

Education

• 2003: Habilitation (Post-doctoral Degree), Faculty of Letters, Manouba (University of Manouba).
• 1990: Ph.D. (D.R.A.), University of Tunis, Faculty of Letters, Manouba, Department of English. Title: “Metaphor in Political and Economic Texts.”
• 1984: MA (C.A.R.), University of Tunis, Faculty of Arts 9 April, Department of English. Title: “A Contrastive Analysis of English and Arabic Complement Sentences.”
• 1980: BA (Maitrise), University of Tunis, Faculty of Arts 9 April, Department of English

Professional experience

• 2010-2011 (Full Professor): Responsible for lecturing undergraduate students at the Department of European Languages and Translation (English Program), College of Languages & Translation, King Saud University
• 2009-2010 (Full Professor): Responsible for lecturing undergraduate students at the Department of European Languages and Translation (English Program), College of Languages & Translation, King Saud University.
• 2008-2009 (Associate Professor): Responsible for lecturing undergraduate students at the Department of European Languages and Translation (English Program), College of Languages & Translation, King Saud University. 
• 2007-2008 (Associate Professor): Responsible for lecturing undergraduate students at the Department of European Languages and Translation (English Program), College of Languages & Translation, King Saud University.  
• 2006-2007 (Associate Professor): Responsible for the design, preparation, selection of course materials, and lecturing undergraduate and postgraduate students.  Coordinator of academic and pedagogic affairs at the department of English, Ecole Normale Superieure, Tunis. Responsible for advising postgraduate students on their MA and Ph.D. work.
• 2005-2006 (Associate Professor): Responsible for the design, preparation, selection of course materials, and lecturing undergraduate and postgraduate students.  Responsible for advising postgraduate students on their MA and Ph.D. work.
• 2004-2005 (Associate Professor): Chair of Department of English, Faculty of Letters, Arts, and Humanities (University of Manouba). Responsible for academic/pedagogic and administrative activities in the department. Responsible for the design, preparation, selection of course materials, and lecturing undergraduate and postgraduate students.  Responsible for advising postgraduate students on their MA and Ph.D. work.
• 2003-2004 (Assistant Professor): Chair of Department of English, Faculty of Letters, Arts, and Humanities (University of Manouba). Responsible for academic/pedagogic and administrative activities in the department. Responsible for the design, preparation, selection of course materials, and lecturing undergraduate and postgraduate students.  Responsible for advising postgraduate students on their MA work.
• 2002-2003 (Assistant Professor): Senior Fulbright scholar at the Department of linguistics, Albuquerque (University of New Mexico). Responsible for the design, preparation, selection of course materials, and lecturing postgraduate students a course on Topics in Cognitive Pragmatics. 
• 1999 – 2002 (Assistant Professor): Head of Department of English, Faculty of Arts, Manouba, University of Manouba. Responsible for academic/pedagogic and administrative activities in the department. Responsible for the design, preparation, selection of course materials, and lecturing undergraduate and postgraduate students. 
• 1993–1999 (Assistant Professor): Responsible for the design, preparation, selection of course materials, and lecturing undergraduate students. 
• 1990–1993 (Research Assistant): Responsible for the design, preparation, selection of course material, and lecturing undergraduate students.
• 1985-1990 (PES): Responsible for the preparation and teaching of language courses for students in departments other than English at University.

Courses taught (alphabetically)

1. Advanced Writing
2. Cognitive Stylistics/Rhetoric
3. Comparative Culture
4. Comparative Stylistics 
5. Composition
6. Critical Discourse Analysis
7. Critical Metaphor Analysis
8. Grammar
9. Introduction to Discourse Analysis
10. Introduction to Linguistics
11. Introduction to Pragmatics
12. Introduction to Psycholinguistics
13. Introduction to Sociolinguistics
14. Introduction to Stylistics
15. Psycholinguistics
16. Research Methodology
17. Speaking
18. Structure of English
19. Topics in Cognitive Pragmatics
20. Topics in Critical Discourse Analysis
21. Translation Studies
22. Translation in the Field of Engineering
23. Translation in the Field of Education
24. Translation in the Field of Politics 
25. Writing and Research Skills

Publications

1. (1994). English-Arabic machine translation of nominal compounds. In P. Bouillon & D. Estival (Eds.), Proceedings of the workshop on compound Nouns: Multilingual aspects of nominal composition (pp. 135-146). Geneva: ISSCO.
2. (1998-99). Passives in Modern Standard and Tunisian Arabic. Matériaux Arabes et Sudarabiques-Gellas 9, 51-76.
3. (1999). Metaphor making and processing. Journal of Literary Semantics, 28(2), 105-123.
4. (1999). Metaphoric discourse in the age of cognitive linguistics, with special reference to Tunisian Arabic. Journal of Literary Semantics, 28(3), 189-206.
5. (1999). Interpersonal perception in self-promotional discourse. The Tunisian Review of Modern Languages 9, 155-174.
6. (2000). Passives in modern standard and Tunisian Arabic. In M. Mifsud, (Ed.), Proceedings of the third international conference of AIDA (Association Internationale de Dialectologie Arabe) (pp. 21-26). Malta: Salesian Press. 
7. (2001). Processing pictorial metaphor in advertising: A cross-cultural view. Academic Research, 1(1), 19-42.
8. (2002). The image-schematic anchorage of the preposition fi (in): The logic of containment in Tunisian Arabic. In: S. Csábi & J. Zerkowitz (Eds.), Textual secrets: The message of the medium (pp. 227-236). (Proceedings of the 21^st PALA Conference). Budapest, Hungary: Eötvös Lorand University.
9. (2002). Modal auxiliaries: A proposal for an experientialist-pragmatic account. Etudes Linguistiques 4, 59-83.
10. (2003). Guidelines for the translation of English nominal compounds into Arabic: A computational discourse model. The Tunisian Review of Modern Languages 11, 139-167.
11. (2003). Conceptual metaphor as persuasion, with special reference to consumer advertising: A cognitive semantics account. In M. Triki & A. Sellami-Baklouti (Eds.), Pragmatic perspectives on persuasion (pp. 121-147). Sfax, Tunisia: Faculty of Letters and Humanities.
12. (2004). Figurative language in anger expressions in Tunisian Arabic: An extended view of embodiment. Metaphor and Symbol, 19(1), 51-75.
13. (2005). Assigning metaphoric interpretations to basic-level categories among Arab students of English. In Z. Maalej (Ed.), Metaphor, cognition, and culture (pp. 133-162). Manouba, Tunis: Publications of the University of Manouba.
14. (2005). (Ed.). Metaphor, cognition and culture: Selected papers from the fourth conference on researching and applying metaphor. Manouba, Tunis: Faculty of Letters, Arts, and Humanities.
15. (2006). Middle verbs. In Encyclopedia of Arabic Language and Linguistics (EALL). BRILL, Leiden – Boston.
16. (2007). The embodiment of fear expressions in Tunisian Arabic: Theoretical and practical implications. In F. Sharifian & G. B. Palmer (Eds.), Applied cultural linguistics: Implications for second language learning and intercultural communication (pp. 87-104). Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company.
17. (2007). Doing critical discourse analysis with the contemporary theory of metaphor: Towards a discourse model of metaphor. In C. Hart & D. Lukeš (Eds.), Cognitive linguistics in critical discourse studies: Application and theory (pp. 132-158). Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Press.
18. (2008). Metaphors of learning and knowledge in the Tunisian context: A case of re-categorization. In E. Berendt (Ed.), Metaphors of Learning (pp. 205-223). Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
19. (2008). Translating metaphor between unrelated cultures: A cognitive-pragmatic perspective. Sayyab Translation Journal, 1, 60-82.
20. (2008). The heart and cultural embodiment in Tunisian Arabic. In F. Sharifian, R. Dirven, N. Yu & S. Niemeier (Eds.), Culture, body, and language: Conceptualizations of internal body organs across cultures and languages (pp. 395-428). Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
21. (2009). A cognitive-pragmatic perspective on proverbs and its implications for translation. International Journal of Arabic-English Studies (IJAES) 10, 135-154.
22. (2010). Addressing non-acquaintances in Tunisian Arabic: A cognitive-pragmatic account. Intercultural Pragmatics, 7(1), 147-173.
23. (2011). Ideological and non-ideological metaphors: A cognitive-pragmatic perspective. In K. Berrada & A. Jehfa (Eds.), Metaphor and cognition (pp. 97-122). Morocco: Laboratory Publications: Linguistics and Communication Labs.

Book reviews

1. (2001). Review of Pragmatic meaning and cognition (by Sophia Marmaridou, 2000). Journal of Literary Semantics, 30(3), 203-210.
2. (2001). Review of Simultaneous interpretation: A cognitive-pragmatic analysis (by Robin Setton, 1999). Journal of Literary Semantics, 30(3), 210-214. [Also available online at http://www.linguistlist.org/issues/10/10-1951.html]

3.  (2001). Review of The language of deception. A discourse analytical study (by Dariusz Galasinski, 2000). Discourse Studies, 3(3), 376-78.

4.   (2001). Review of Gesture, speech and sign (by Lynn Messing & Ruth Campbell (Eds.), 1999). Sign Language Studies, 2(1), 116-131. [Also available online at http://www.linguistlist.org/issues/11/11-2175.html]

5.   (2002). Review of Metaphor and metonymy at the crossroads: A cognitive perspective (by Antonio Barcelona (Ed.), 2000). Language and Literature, 11(2), 180-183.

6.   (2002). Review of Brown tide rising: Metaphors of Latinos in contemporary American public discourse (by Otto Santa Ana, 2002). Discourse & Society, 15(1), 134-135.

7.   Review of Language and space (1999), by Mary Bloom, A. Peterson, Lynn Nadel & Merrill F. Garrett (eds.). Cambridge/London: The MIT Press. [Available online at http://www.linguistlist.org/issues/11/11-1672.html#1]

8.    Review of Perception, cognition and language: Essays in honor of Henry and Lila Gleitman (2000), by Barbara Landau, John Sabini, John Jonides & Elissa L. Newport (eds.). Cambridge/London: The MIT Press. [Available online at http://www.linguistlist.org/issues/12/12-1254.html]

9.   Review of Pragmatics: Critical concepts (Pragmatics, grammar, psychology, sociology, Vol. VI) (1998) by Asa Kasher (Ed.). London & New York: Routledge. ([Available online at http://www.linguistlist.org/issues/12/12-221.html]

10.  Review of Contexts of metaphor (2001), by Michiel Leezenberg. Amsterdam and London: Elsevier. [Available online at http://www.linguistlist.org/issues/12/12-3034.html]

11.  Review of Language, cognition, and the brain. Insights from sign language research (2002), by Karen Emmorey. New Jersey/London:  Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. [Available online at http://www.linguistlist.org/issues/13/13-1631.html]

12.  Review of Modality and its interaction with the verbal system (2002), by Sjef Barbiers, Frits Beukema, and Wim van der Wurff (Eds). Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company.

13.  Review of Relevance and linguistic meaning: The semantics and pragmatics of discourse Markers, by Diane Blakemore (2002). Cambridge: CUP. [Available online at http://www.linguistlist.org/issues/14/14-459.html]

14.  Review of Pragmatics and discourse: A resource book for students, by Joan Cutting (2002). London and New York: Routledge (Routledge English Language Introductions). [Available online at http://www.linguistlist.org/issues/14/14-1015.html]

15.  Review of Children’s discourse: Person, space and time across languages, by Maya Hickmann (2003). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (Cambridge Studies in Linguistics 98). [Available online at http://www.linguistlist.org/issues/14/14-1368.html]

16.    Review of Deictic conceptualisation of space, time and person, edited by Friedrich Lenz (2003). Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company (Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 112). [Available online at http://www.linguistlist.org/issues/14/14-2209.html]

17.  Review of Cognitive models in language and thought: Ideology, metaphors and meanings (2003), edited by René Dirven, Roslyn Frank, and Martin Pütz. Mouton de Gruyter, Cognitive Linguistics Research 24. [Available online at http://www.linguistlist.org/issues/14/14/3047.html] and http://ml.osdir.com/science.linguistics.linguist-list/2003-11/msg00065.html

18.  (2006). Review of Modality in contemporary English (edited by Roberta Facchinetti, Manfred Krug, and Frank Palmer, 2003). Journal of English Linguistics, 34(1), 60-65.

19.  Review of An introduction to critical discourse analysis in education (2004), edited by Rebecca Rogers. Mahwah, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. [Available online at http://listserv.uts.edu.au/archives/sys-func/2005-February/003248.html

Ongoing Research

1. (to be submitted). Contemporary cognitive theory of metaphor: Arabic data. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company.
2. (to be submitted). Self as soul in Tunisian Arabic. In Ruhi, S., M. Aksan, Y. Aksan, & Z. Maalej (Eds.), Figurative language, emotions, and self: Eastern perspective. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company.
3. Maalej, Z. & N. Yu (Eds.). (to be submitted). Embodiment via body parts: Studies from various languages and cultures. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company.
4. Ruhi, S., M. Aksan, Y. Aksan, & Z. Maalej (Eds.). (to be submitted). Figurative language, emotions, and self: Eastern perspective. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company. 

Unpublished papers

1. (1997). "Universal grammar in translation pedagogy." Paper read to the English Department Conference on Discourse and Translation (University of the South, Sfax, 1997).
2. (1999). "Strategies written production among Tunisian students." Joint paper read to the First International Contrastive Rhetoric Conference (American University in Cairo, Egypt).
3. (2000). "What cognitive linguistics can teach us about translation." Paper read at the Translation & Comparative Stylistics Study Day, University of the South, Sfax (18 February 2000).
4. (2000). "Cognitive linguistics: Implications and applications." Paper read to the Linguistics & Translation Seminar, University of the South, Sfax (10 March 2000).
5. (2000). "A cognitive stylistics for the millennium." Paper read to the Millennium PALA Conference, Goldsmiths College, University of London (29 June 2 July 2000).
6. (2001). "Of animals, foods, objects, and plants, or how women are conceptualized: A cross-cultural perspective." Paper read to the Fourth International Conference on Researching and Applying Metaphor (RAAM IV): Metaphor, Cognition, and Culture. Faculty of Letters, Manouba, Tunis (5-7 April 2001).
7. (2001) “On the role of Arabic in the misuse of English determination in Arab students’ written production.”

Participation in national and international meetings

1.      Workshop on Compound Nouns: Multilingual Aspects of Nominal Composition. Geneva: ISSCO, December 1994.

2.      English Department Conference on Dualities. University of Tunis: Manouba (1996).

3.      English Department Conference on Discourse and Translation. University of the South, Sfax (1997).

4.      Department of English Conference on Discourse. University of Tunis I, 9 Avril Faculty (March 1998).

5.      Third International Conference of AIDA. Malta, 29 March-2 April 1998.

6.      Third International Conference on Researching and Applying Metaphor (RAAM III): Metaphor across Languages: Translation and Intercultural Communication, Including Literature. Tilbürg, The Netherlands, 30 June/2 July 1999.

7.      First International Conference on Contrastive Rhetoric. English and Arabic: Teaching English to Arabic Speakers/Teaching Arabic to English Speakers. Egypt: AUC, 19-20 February 1999.

8.      Twentieth International Poetics and Linguistics Association Conference. The Millennium PALA Conference: A Stylistics for the Millennium. Goldsmiths College, University of London, 29 June/2 July 2000.

9.      English Department Linguistics & Translation Seminar. University of the South, Sfax (February 2000).

10.  English Department Pragmatics & Critical Discourse Analysis Symposium: Deconstructing Persuasion. University of the South, Sfax (April 2000).

11.  Symposium on Lyric Poetry in honor of Dr Anouar Attia. Department of English, Manouba (8-10 March 2001).

12.  Second International Conference on Contrastive Rhetoric: Linguistics, Culture and Teaching. Egypt: AUC, 22-24 March 2001.

13.  Fourth International Conference on Researching and Applying Metaphor (RAAM III): Metaphor, Cognition, and Culture. Faculty of Arts, Manouba, Tunis, 5-7 April, 2001.

14.  Twenty-first International Poetics and Linguistics Association Conference. Textual Secrets. The Message of the Medium. Eötvös Lorand University, Budapest, Hungary, 12-15 April 2001.

15.  Fifth High Desert Linguistic Society (HDLS) Conference. University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, 1-2 November 2002.

16.  Fifth International Conference on Researching and Applying Metaphor (RAAM V): Metaphor, Categorisation and Abstraction: A Multidisciplinary Approach. Université Paris 13, France, 3-6 September 2003.

17.  Fifth Tunisia-Japan Symposium on Culture, Science and Technology. Faculty of Letters and Human Sciences at Sfax (Tunisia), 24-26 May 2004.

18.  International Conference on Constructing Worlds through Language, organized by the English Department in Sfax in collaboration with the Discourse Analysis Research Group (GRAD), 29-30 April 2005 (Sfax-Tunisia).

19.  Ninth International Cognitive Linguistics Conference: Language, Mind, and Brain. Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea, 17-22 July 2005.

20.  Sixth International Conference on Researching and Applying Metaphor (RAAM IV): Metaphor in the real world. University of Leeds, UK, 10-12 April 2006.

21.  International Conference on Ambiguity and Disambiguation, organized by the English Department in Sfax in collaboration with the Discourse Analysis Research Group (GRAD) (Sfax-Tunisia), 5-6 May 2006.

22.  First International Conference on Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis across Disciplines (CADAAD). University of East Anglia (UK), 29-30 June 2006.

23.  Tenth International Congress of IGEL (International Society for the Empirical Study of Literature). Frauenwörth im Chiemsee (Munich), 5-9 August, 2006.

24.  Tenth International Cognitive Linguistics Conference: Cognitive Linguistics in action: From theory to application and back. Jagiellonian University of Krakow, Poland, 15-20 July 2007.

25.  Seventh International Conference on Researching and Applying Metaphor (RAAM VII): Metaphor in Cross-cultural Communication. Caceres, Spain, 29-31 May 2008.

26.  First International Congress on Arabic & English Applied Linguistics and  Rhetoric & Writing: Challenges in Teaching Language and Rhetoric, held at the American University in Cairo, Egypt and Western Michigan University (March 23-25, 2009).

Journals contributed to

1. Academic Research (Tunisia)
2. Discourse & Society
3. Discourse Studies
4. Intercultural Pragmatics
5. Journal of Arabic-English Studies (Jordan)
6. Journal of English Linguistics
7. Journal of King Saud University, Languages and Translation
8. Journal of Literary Semantics
9. Language and Literature
10. Metaphor & Symbol
11. Sign Language Studies
12. Tunisian Review of Modern Languages

Citations

1. Al-Hasnawi Ali R. (2007). A cognitive approach to translating metaphors. Cultural Aspects, 11(3). Available online at http://www.accurapid.com/journal/41metaphor.htm (Accessed 6-4-2008).
2. Al-Kharabsheh, Aladdin (2005). The interpretation of terminological constructions: The case of techno-scientific nominal compounds. Journal of Language and Linguistics, 4(2), 161-182.
3. CSA Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts database (http://www.elabs7.com/c.html).
4. Caballero, Rosario (2007). Book review. Metaphor and Symbol, 22(1), 109-118.
5. Cameron, L., & Deignan, A. (2006). The emergence of metaphor in discourse. Applied Linguistics, 27(4), 671-690.
6. Dickins, J. (2005). Two models for metaphor translation. Target, 17(2), 227-273.
7. Fareh, Shehdeh and Bin Moussa, Maher (2007). Practicality and usefulness of English-Arabic dictionaries in translating English metaphors. Babel, 53(1), 32-47.
8. Forceville, C. (2006). Non-verbal and multimodal metaphor in a cognitivist framework: Agendas for  Research. In G. Kristiansen, M. Achard, R. Dirven & F. R. Mendoza (Eds.), Cognitive linguistics: Current applications and future perspectives (pp. 379-402). Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter.
9. Forceville, C. (2007). Multimodal metaphor in ten Dutch TV commercials.  The Public Journal of Semiotics, 1(1), 15-34.
10. Gibbs, R. W. (2006). Embodiment and cognitive science. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
11. Koller, V. (2003). Metaphor clusters in business media discourse: A social cognition approach. Ph.D. Dissertation: University of Vienna.
12. Kövecses, Z. (2005). Metaphor in culture: Universality and variation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
13. Kövecses, Z. (2005). Language, mind, and culture. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
14. Lima-Hernandez, Maria Célia (2006). Níveis no processamento da comparação no Português contemporâneo e padrões funcionais de como. Estudios Lingüisticos, XXXV, 1322-1330.
15. Lukeš, D. (2007). What does it mean when texts “really” mean something?: Types of evidence for conceptual patterns in discourse. In C. Hart & D. Lukeš (Eds.), Cognitive linguistics in critical discourse studies: Application and theory (pp. 180-206). Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Press.
16. MacArthur, F. (2005). The competent horseman in a horseless world: Observations on a conventional metaphor in Spanish and English. Metaphor and Symbol, 20(1), 71-94.
17. Opez Rodriguez, Irene (2007). The representation of women in teenage and women's magazines: Recurring metaphors in English. Estudios Ingleses de la Universidad Complutense, 15, 15-42.
18. Romero, E., & Soria, B. (2005). Cognitive metaphor theory revisited. Journal of Literary Semantics, 34(1), 1-20.
19. Strack, D. C. (2007). Literature in the crucible of translation: A cognitive account. Okayama, Japan: University Education Press.
20. Wilcox, P. P. (in press). Constructs of the mind: Cross-linguistic contrast of metaphor in spoken and signed languages. In E. Pizzuto, P. Pietrandrea, & R. Simone (Eds.), Verbal and signed languages: Comparing structures, constructs and methodologies (pp. 249-270). Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter.
21. Wolf, Hans-Goerg & Frank Polzenhagen (2003). Conceptual metaphor as ideological stylistic means: An exemplary analysis. In Dirven, René, Roslyn Frank & Martin Pütz (Eds.), Cognitive Models in Language and Thought: Ideology, Metaphors and Meanings. Berlin and New York: Mouton de Gruyter, pp. 247-275.
22. Wu, Wanwei (2003). Metaphor translation in political texts. US-China Foreign Language, Oct. (Monthly), 73-81.
23. Yu, N. (2008). Metaphor from body and culture. In R. W. Gibbs (Ed.), The Cambridge handbook of metaphor and thought (pp. 247-261). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

MA and Ph.D. supervision

Name of candidate		Research topic	Institution	Date of defense
1	Hager Rebei (MA)	A critical discourse analysis of the political speeches of Bush towards the Arabs since 9/11	ISLT	2004
2	Neila Ben Dhia	Hedging in scientific articles	ISLT	2004
3	Moufida Mnakri (MA)	Metaphor in English-Arabic telecommunication technology: A cognitive view	ISLT	2005
4	Nadia Hamrouni (MA)	On the structure of construct states in Tunisian Arabic	FLAH	July 2005
5	Jamil Ben Whida (MA)	A cognitive-pragmatic account of terms of address in Tunisian Arabic	ISLT	October 2006
6	Mohamed Ramzi Ghanmi (MA)	A cross-cultural study of unpleasant announcements in English and Tunisian Arabic	ISLT	October 2006
7	Salma Cherif (MA)	Humor within a relevance-theoretic framework with special reference to “Caricatures”	ISLT	November 2006
8	Chiraz Fatnassi (MA)	A cross-cultural study of Tunisian and English refusals	ISLT	November 2006
9	Nadia Friaa (MA)	Metaphor in the African and European football cups 2004: Tunisian Arabic and English data	ISLT	October 2006
10	Moncef Kharroubi (DEA)	Expressing disagreement by native and non-native speakers of English among university teachers and researchers in academic conferences	FLAH	April 2007
11	Mokhtar Ounis (MA)	Expressions of buying and selling in Tunisian Arabic: A cognitive semantic account	FLSHS	January 2007
12	Faycel Dakhlaoui (MA)	Food metaphors in Tunisian Arabic proverbs: A cognitive account	FLAH	May 2007
13	Houda Slim (MA)	Hedging in students’ academic writing: Effect of instruction and awareness raising	FLAH	June 2007
14	Fatma Belaid (Ph.D.)	The effects of training and practice in peer- and self-feedback techniques on the writing performance and attitude towards writing in English of second year Tunisian students	FLAH	January 2007
15	Sana Gargouri Melki (MA)	A cognitive-pragmatic perspective on ironic commentaries in Tunisian newspapers	ISLT	July 2007

Participation in MA and Ph.D. viva voce

	Type of research	Research topic	Role	Institution	Date of defense
1	MA (C.A.R)	The notional-functional syllabus and the Tunisian context (Adel Khadraoui)	Main reader	FLAH	1993
2	MA (C.A.R)	The suitability of “Communicate in English, Level three, to Tunisian learners (Salwa M’rabet)	Main reader	FLAH	1993
3	MA	Modality as a  pragmalinguistic tool in legal/political discourse: Clinton’s grand jury testimony in Lewinsky’s affair as a case study (Ridha Lamouchi)	Main reader	ISLT	2002
4	MA	The process of copywriting in promotional discourse: The impact of research on print advertising language (a content analysis) (Samira Allani)	Main reader	ISLT	2002
5	MA	The role of humour in persuasion in Tunisian TV commercials as a discourse type (Ridha Arfi)	Main reader	ISLT	2003
6	MA	ESP students’ writing strategies (Olfa Bayoudh)	Main reader	ISLT	2003
7	MA	The dialectics of ideological framing and representation in the Internet news: Towards a systematic critical discourse analysis of media language (Samira Farhat)	Main reader	ISLT	2003
8		Anaphorisation semantique et emphatisation dans le texte publicitaire (Lamia Guelloub)	Main reader	ISLT	2003
9	MA	The manipulation of person deixis in the Bush administration’s political discourses: An experientialist approach (Nadia Bousaid)	Main reader	ISLT	2003
10	MA	Understanding speech acts in Victorian society: The flouting of the relation maxim in Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest (Aouatef Boubakri)	Main reader	ISLT	2004
11	MA	Modifying illocutionary forces as a goal-oriented strategy in political discourse: George W. Bush’s speeches between 9/11 and 11-30-2001 as a case study (Nadia Abid)	Main reader	ISLT	2004
12	MA	Person deixis as a pragmalinguistic tool in political discourse: A critical discourse analysis of Bush’s speeches concerning waging a war on Iraq (Zied Ben Amor)	Main reader	ISLT	2004
13	MA	Pronominals as indicators of socio-political affiliation: Reading through Arafat and Sharon’s speeches	Main reader	ISLT	2004
14	MA	مقاربة عرفانية للإستعارة في كتاب "ذاكرة الجسد" لأحلام المستغانمي (الطالبة بسمة السوداني)	Main reader	ISLT	2005
15	MA	L1 and L2 ambiguity resolution of relative clauses: The case of TA and TA learners of English and French (Anis Balti)	Chair	FLAH	December 2005
16	MA	Understanding Speech Acts in Victorian Society: The flouting of the relation maxim in Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest (Aouatef Boubakri)	Main reader	ISLT	June 2005
17	MA	Common errors in the use of prepositions in the written work of Audiovisual students at the Institut Superieur des Arts Multimedia (Foued Balti Toueti)	Main reader	ISLT	June 2005
18	MA	المعنى والإحالة في علم الدلالة العرفاني (الطالب ياسين البوزيدي)	Main reader	FLAH	March 2006
19	MA	Topicalization and left dislocation: A comparative study between English and Standard Arabic (Maha Haj Alayya)	Chair	FLAH	January 2006
20	MA	Reliability of the principles-and parameters theory in the light of comprehension/reading strategies used by Tunisian bilingual learners of English (Aida Zitouni)	Chair	FLAH	May 2006
21	MA	The use of verb subcategorization in the processing of Tunisian Arabic (Kamal Labidi)	Chair	FLAH	May 2006
22	MA	Business news reporting in the Financial Times: A socio-rhetorical study (Nedra Cherif)	Main reader	ISLT	November 2006
23	Ph.D.	Analysis of English and Modern Standard Arabic Complement sentences (Souad Fertani Ben Nasr)	Member	FLAH	January 2006
24	MA	Business news reporting in the financial times: A socio-rhetorical study	Main reader	ISLT	2006
25	Ph.D.	Classroom spoken discourse: A study of verbal interaction in Tunisian EFL secondary school lessons (Salwa M’rabet-Abid)	Member	FLAH	November 2006
26	MA	Emerging types of computer-mediated texts: The case of SMS text messages (Hassen Rabhi)	Chair	FLAH	April 2007
27	MA	Is that funny? Humor and irony from a cognitive-pragmatic perspective: Al-Jahiz’s Al bukhalaa as a case study (Aulaya Fourati Chaabane)	Main reader	FLAH	April 2007
28	MA	Demystifying deception: Unsolicited electronic messages (SPAMS) as a case study (Aida Najeh)	Main reader	FLAH	April 2007
29	MA	The discourse of political advertising: An analysis of print advertisements in the American presidential election 2004 (Zied Brahmia)	Chair	FLAH	June 2007
30	MA	Narratorial techniques in Tunisian police and court transcripts: A forensic linguistic approach (Nesrine Triki)	Main reader	FLAH	June 2007
31	Ph.D.	Visual metaphor as indirect claim: An interactive approach to persuasion in TV car advertising (Hassen Souissi)	Main reader	FLAH	July 2007
32	Ph.D.	A comparative sociolinguistic study of gender- related differences and attitudes in the use of Standard Arabic Speech forms in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (Manal Abdullah Ismail)	Member	College of Arts, Department of English, KSU	June 2008
33	Ph.D.	A linguistic study of narrative discourse in twenty chosen sayings of the Prophet Muhammad peace be upon him: A micro-macro structural approach (Salma Ali Dhafer Al-Qahtani)	Member	College of Education, Abha	2009

Journal referees

 

	Journal/Book	Title of the paper	Author’s name
1	Journal of Philosophy (based in South Africa)	Metaphor and Sentence Meaning	Author’s name masked for blind reviewing
2	Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics XVI (Papers from the 16th annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics, Cambridge, March 2002, Cambridge University). Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2006.	The textual component in classical Arabic: Investigating information structure	Salwa A. Kamel (Egypt)
3	Metaphor & Symbol (based in Mahwah, New Jersey)	Grouping, Simile, and Oxymoron in Pictures: A Design-based Cognitive Approach	Norman Teng and Sun Sewen (Taiwan)
4	Humor (based in the USA)	Egyptian Humor: A Pragmatic Analysis of Selected Social and Political Cartoons	Omnia F. El Kommos (Egypt)
5	International Journal of Arabic and English Studies, IJAES (based in Amman, Jordan)	Attention, Noticing and Foreign Language Behavior: Focus on Attending to Form and Content in Written Texts and Correction Tasks	Author’s name masked for blind reviewing
6	International Journal of Arabic and English Studies, IJAES (based in Amman, Jordan)	Bilingual Acquisition, Development and Performance	Author’s name masked for blind reviewing
7	International Journal of Arabic and English Studies, IJAES (based in Amman, Jordan)	The ‘Explicitation Hypothesis’ and Non-professional Translators: A Case Study	Author’s name masked for blind reviewing
8	Cognitive Linguistics	Universal processes in conceptual metaphor: A recommendation for a usage-based approach	Author’s name masked for blind reviewing
9	Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis Across Disciplines Online (CADAAD Online)	Disease metaphors in urban planning	Author’s name masked for blind reviewing
10	Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis Across Disciplines Online (CADAAD Online)	Discourse and identity: Lakoff’s Cognitive Linguistics and why it isn’t	Author’s name masked for blind reviewing
11	Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis Across Disciplines Online (CADAAD Online)	Distancing and showing solidarity via metaphor and metonymy in political discourse: A critical study of American statements on Iraq during the years 2004-2005	Author’s name masked for blind reviewing
12	Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis Across Disciplines Online (CADAAD Online)	Under construction:  Images of the enlarging EU in the Australasian news media	Author’s name masked for blind reviewing
13	International Journal of Arabic and English Studies, IJAES (based in Amman, Jordan)	The Effect of Computer-Based Deductive and Inductive Instruction on the Acquisition of Verb Tenses in an EFL Context	Author’s name masked for blind reviewing
14	Humor (based in the USA)	Humor in the Collectivist Arab Middle East: The Case of Lebanon	Shahe S. Kazarian
15	Journal of Pragmatics	Date-palms, Language and the Power of Knowledge: An Analysis of a Fable from Kalila and Dimna	Bahaa-Eddin M. Mazid
16	Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis Across Disciplines Online (CADAAD Online)	What can Critical Metaphor Analysis add to the understanding of racist ideology? Recent studies of Hitler’s anti-Semitic metaphors	Andreas Musolff
17	Journal of Linguistic Anthropology	You Are What You Speak?: Language Ideology and Heteroglossia in Tunisia	Author’s name masked for blind reviewing
18	International Journal of Arabic and English Studies, IJAES (based in Amman, Jordan)	A Critical Review of Two Admission Tests	Author’s name masked for blind reviewing
19	Cognitive Linguistics	The bird of time has but a little way To fly__and Lo! The Bird is on the wing:                    Metaphors of time in Poems of the Persian Poet Omar Khayyam	Author’s name masked for blind reviewing
20	Sayyab Translation Journal	Lexical Gaps in Arabic-to­-English Translation	Author’s name masked for blind reviewing
21	Pragmatics and Cognition	Translating phatic expressions	Author’s name masked for blind reviewing
22	Linguistik Online	Phases in L1 Acquisition of Negation: A comparative study of Cairene Arabic and English	Author’s name masked for blind reviewing

Professional membership

1. Member of PALA (Poetics And Linguistics Association)
2. Founding Member of RaAM International Association (Researching and Applying Metaphor)
3. Member of IGEL (International Society for the Empirical Study of Literature)
4. Member of CADAAD (Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis Across Disciplines)
5. Member of the editorial board of Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis Across Disciplines Online (CADAAD Online). 
6. Member of the scientific committee of the Seventh international Conference on Researching and Applying Metaphor (RaAM 7)
7. Member of the scientific committee of the Eighth international Conference on Researching and Applying Metaphor (RaAM 8)
8. Member of the Editorial Board of STJ as of 2008 (Sayyab Translation Journal, based in London)
9. Member of the Editorial Board of John Benjamins’ book series, Cognitive Linguistic Studies in Cultural Contexts (edited by Ning Yu and Farzad Sharifian) since its inception in 2010

Research interests

Metaphor

Critical Metaphor Analysis

Cognitive Poetics

Cognitive Linguistics

(Cognitive) Pragmatics

(Critical) Discourse Analysis

Translation studies

Awards

Senior Fulbright Award (2002-2003) spent at the Department of Linguistics, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque (USA).

Scientific Activities

·         Participation in the selection and assessment of one textbook for English in secondary education titled, Spread Your Wings (1998)

·         Participation in the foundation of ELTecs for the Middle East and North Africa (under British Council sponsorship, Morocco, March 2000).

·         Organization of the Fourth International Conference on Researching and Applying Metaphor (RAAM IV): Metaphor, Cognition, and Culture. Faculty of Arts, Manouba, Tunis, 5-7 April, 2001.

·         Member of the Scientific Board of the Sixth Researching and Applying Metaphor Conference (RAAM VI) held in Leeds (10-12 April 2006).

• Member of the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Arabic and English Studies (IJAES) (2006)
• Member of the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Proverbs (2006).
• Member of the Editorial Board of the Online Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis Across Disciplines Online (CADAAD Online) at http://discourse.uea.ac.uk (2006)
• Member of the Scientific Board of the Seventh Researching and Applying Metaphor Conference (RAAM VI) held in Cáceres, Spain (29-31 May 2008).

·         Participation as a coordinator in two committees to re-orientate students to the Department of European Languages and Translation, College of Languages and Translation, King Saud University (2007-8)

·         Participation in the Committee for Output of Colleges and Departments of Translation as a coordinator of the Educational Curricula sub-committee, College of Languages and Translation, King Saud University (2008)

·         Participation as a coordinator of the Review Committee for the curricula of the Departments of Linguistics and Translation, College of Languages and Translation, King Saud University (2008)

·         Participation as a member in three recruiting and promotion committees at the College of Languages and Translation, King Saud University (2008)

·         Participation as a member in the French Follow-up Committee for the Masters Degree in Translation at the College of Languages and Translation, King Saud University (2008)

·         Participation in the writing of no less than 15 course descriptions for the newly-created Department of Linguistics and Restructuring of the College of Languages and Translation, King Saud University (2008)

·         Participation as an external examiner of a Ph.D. dissertation at the Department of English, College of Arts, King Saud University (title: "A Comparative Sociolinguistic Study of gender-related Differences and Attitudes in the Use of Standard Arabic Speech Forms in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia") (June 2008)

·         Presentation of an invited talk at the College of Languages and Translation, King Saud University (title: "A Cognitive-pragmatics of Categories and Translation: Prototypes and Frame Semantics"  (2008)

Community Service

·         Post-editing the following Saudi National Society for Human Rights translations:

o   First Report on the National Society for Human Rights: Its Culture, Vision, Mission, Objectives, and Accomplishments (2004, 2005, 2006)

o   Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp and Human Rights Violations: Suffering of Saudi Detainees and their Families

·         Translating the following Saudi National Society for Human Rights document:

• Conformity of Saudi laws and regulations with basic human rights conventions                            

o   Cancelling the laws of sponsorship and redressing the employer-expatriate employee relation

• Rights of the suspect (during arrest, investigation, search, trial)
• Code of criminal procedure

o   First Report on Human Rights Conditions in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (2006)

• Second report on the status of human rights in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (2008)
• Rights and duties of male and  female inmates (2008)

·         Linguistic editing of papers on dietetics (garlic, ginger, cigarette smoking) and accounting (Saudi Association for Accounting)

·         Co-translating the following documents for the Ministry of Higher Education (Kingdom of Saudi Arabia):

o   Higher Education  in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia: International Indicators and Comparisons

o   Ministry of Higher Education's Plan to Accomplish Excellence in Science and Technology in Higher Education

Computer Skills

§  Expert command of word processing using Word, Word Perfect, and Lotus Word Pro

§  Expert command of Internet and Computer Technology in Research

§  Expert command of PowerPoint writing and presenting

§  Medium command of SPSS for empirical research

§  Medium command of online concordances for empirical research