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Dr Amir Hamza Youssef Salama

PhD in English Linguistics & Discourse Studies


Currently, I am teaching English Linguistics at the Department of English, Faculty of Arts, Kafr El-Sheikh University, Egypt. Also, I am teaching English Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, and Stylistics at the Department of English, Faculty of Education, Kafr El-Sheikh University, Egypt. Research-wise, I am a Visiting Research Associate (2011-2014) at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) at Lancaster University, UK:

http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/profiles/Amir-H-Y-Salama/FASS/

My post-graduate studies have been focused on the discursive respresentations of Wahhabi-Saudi Islam (or, rather reductively, 'Wahhabism') in the United States post-9/11. These representations, I have argued, are ideologically recontextualised across opposing discourses via lexical collocation. A synergy of critical discourse analysis (CDA) and corpus linguistics (CL) has been operationalised towards analytically revealing the ideological assumptions (anti-Wahhabi vs. pro-Wahhabi) encoded implicitly behind the overt lexico-grammatical structure of collocation. The data used for analysis are polemic books that address the discourse topic of 'Wahhabi' Islam in meaningful antagonism. Lying at a cross-disciplinary point of research, my project has reached a wide-ranging array of findings, where collocation is interfaced with ideology, cognition, social semiotics, interdiscursivity, and pragmatics fallacies.  



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