The overarching aim of this thesis is to investigate readers’ perceptions of the understandability of three translations of the Qur’an. Despite a long debate among translation theorists as to whether translations should be word-for-word or sense-for... Read More about Lexical selection and archaisms in three English translations of the Sūrat Yūsuf (the Chapter of Joseph): A comparative linguistic and empirical investigation.
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Valley-polarized tunneling currents in bilayer graphene tunneling transistors (2019)
Journal Article
We study theoretically the electron current across a monolayer graphene/hexagonal boron nitride/bilayer graphene tunneling junction in an external magnetic field perpendicular to the layers. We show that change in effective tunneling barrier width fo... Read More about Valley-polarized tunneling currents in bilayer graphene tunneling transistors.
‘What if?’ books (2019)
Book Chapter
The Correlations project presents some examples of artists’ books as a method of enquiry, a means for us to ask questions about their relationship with independent publishing through content and context, and consider both the history and continued pr... Read More about ‘What if?’ books.
Function / Fiction (2019)
Exhibition / Performance
Exhibition of international artists. Function/Fiction probes artistic practices that draw literally on the utilitarian images saturating our environment.
British painting (2019)
Exhibition / Performance
This survey exhibition was a presentation of contemporary British Painting.
Reading in the reception classroom (2018)
Journal Article
Ofated’s 2017 review of the Reception year curriculum asserts that reading is the core purpose of the Re-ception year, and advocates “systematic systematic phonics” as the teaching method. This precept disre-gards research into the nature of reading... Read More about Reading in the reception classroom.
ABSTRACT
Towards a community of artists’ books: extending international knowledge and debate in the field of artists’ books through practice-research
The field of activity in artists’ books – artworks in the form of a book - has evolved over the... Read More about Towards a community of artists’ books: Extending international knowledge and debate in the field of artists’ books through practice-research.
Outskirts of Empire: Studies in British Power Projection (2018)
Book
Outskirts of Empire: Studies in British Power Projection investigates the substructure of Britain's interests in the Near East and beyond during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Essays address themes in British power projection in a geographic... Read More about Outskirts of Empire: Studies in British Power Projection.
Analysing British sign language through the lens of systemic functional linguistics (2018)
Thesis
Approaches to understanding language via Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) have resulted in a compendium of literature focussing on language as a ‘social semiotic.’ One such area of this literature comprises systemic functional grammars: descript... Read More about Analysing British sign language through the lens of systemic functional linguistics.
Metaphor in media discourse: Representations of ‘Arabs’ and ‘Americans' in American and Arab news media (2018)
Thesis
The present study explores the representations of ‘Arabs’ and ‘Americans’ in American and in Arab news media discourse between 2001 and 2011 through an evaluation of the metaphors used to describe each group. The study chiefly argues that metaphors i... Read More about Metaphor in media discourse: Representations of ‘Arabs’ and ‘Americans' in American and Arab news media.