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The results of her linguistic research have been published in the Journal of Politeness Research by the Assistant Professor of the Department of English Linguistics, Institute of English-American Studies, Faculty of Humanities. For the study and its publication, Christina Hodeib won the Publication Award of the Gróf Tisza István University of Debrecen Foundation (In Hungarian abbreviated as: GTIDEA).
The study investigated Syrian Arabic speakers’ understanding of politeness/ impoliteness, which has both universal and language-specific features in language use.
Christina Hodeib came into contact with the University of Debrecen in 2017, when she applied for the Stipendium Hungaricum scholarship and started her PhD in Linguistics at the institution’s Doctoral School of Linguistics in the same year.
“I had already gained university teaching experience in Syria before my studies in Debrecen, so I had no difficulty in continuing the same work during my PhD studies at the University of Debrecen. I liked the environment and felt that it was a place where I would like to do research and I would be happy to stay as a lecturer,” Christina Hodeib told hirek-unideb.hu.
Since 2020, the Department of English Linguistics of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities has been offering introductory linguistics courses, descriptive grammar and pragmatics for Hungarian and foreign students of English, as well as in the bachelor and master programmes in English Studies.
Her specialisation is pragmatics, which studies how speakers use language to express different meanings and linguistic functions.
The GTIDEA Publication Award-winning article was published in a journal that focuses on the study of linguistic politeness and impoliteness, one of the most widely researched areas in pragmatics.
“In my study, I investigated Syrian Arabic speakers’ understandings of politeness/ impoliteness, which has both universal and language-specific features in language use. My research has been added to the literature with a new analysis of Syrian Arabic data, which is important as this area is under-researched. My analysis has also shown that, in addition to their culture-specific perceptions, Syrian speakers understand these concepts in many ways in a similar way to other speakers who come from different cultural and mother tongue backgrounds,” Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Arts said.
The research will continue with a new area, the linguistic characteristics of women-only online forums, the results of which Christina Hodeib plans to present and publish for the first time at a conference in England.
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