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  1. ‘Where have you been hiding this voice?’
  2. Self-Defence Discourse in Collectivist Cultures: The Case of Jordanian Tribes Defending Their Members Against Public Accusations of Corruption
  3. Criticizing for the public interest and aligning with others
  4. A Cognitive Analysis of White Colour Metaphorization in Algerian Arabic
  5. Car bumper stickers in Jordan as a site of carnivalesque transgression and degradation
  6. The Self, the Other, the Tribe, and the Divine: Self-Praise Discourse in Jordanian Arabic
  7. Invoking divine blessing
  8. Jordanian graduate students’ complaints on Facebook: Semantic formulas and politeness
  9. Identity performance and positioning in online discourse in Jordan
  10. Discourses of defense: Self and other positioning in public responses to accusations of corruption in Jordan
  11. Formulaic Expressions of Politeness in Jordanian Arabic Social Interactions
  12. ‘Like a donkey carrying books’
  13. Performing acts of impoliteness through code-switching to English in colloquial Jordanian Arabic interactions
  14. Acts of positioning in online reader comments on Jordanian news websites
  15. Political cartoons in Jordan influenced by the Arab Spring
  16. Between tradition and modernity: The bargaining genre in women's clothing stores in Jordan
  17. Proverbial rhetorical questions in colloquial Jordanian Arabic
  18. A semiotic analysis of intergeneric borrowings in print advertisements in Jordan
  19. The Pragmatics of Prophet-Praise Formulas in Jordan
  20. Conflict talk and argumentative strategies in highly adversarial talk shows: The case of Al-Jazeera’s The Opposite Direction
  21. Public Complaints and Complaint Responses in Calls to a Jordanian Radio Phone-in Program
  22. Carnivalesque politics: A Bakhtinian case study of contemporary Arab political humor
  23. Divine Will and its Extensions: Communicative Functions ofmaašaallahin Colloquial Jordanian Arabic
  24. Intertextual borrowings in ideologically competing discourses:The case of the Middle East
  25. The pragmatics of diminutives in colloquial Jordanian Arabic
  26. Gender metaphors in Middle Eastern politics and the Arab receiver
  27. Exploring the use of rhetorical questions in editorial discourse: a case study of Arabic editorials