Eman Adil Jaafar Assistant Professor of linguistics at the Department of English/ College of Education for Women / University of Baghdad. My research interests include but not limited to stylistics, corpus and cognitive stylistics and applied linguistics.
Supervision
Current
• Haida Kareem, A Corpus stylistic study of Foregrounded Language Patterns in Selected Climate Fiction Texts (main supervisor)
Completed
2022, Haya Abdul Salam Jassim , MA., A Corpus Stylistics Analysis of Suicide Notes and Suicidal Thought Posts (main supervisor)
2023, Zahraa Adnan Mohammed, MA., An Ecostylistic Analysis of Selected Extracts from the Novels The Revenant and The Hungry Tide(main supervisor)
2024, Rajaa Essa Wheib, Women’s Health Portrayal on Social Media: A Corpus Stylistic Study of Pink October Campaigns(main supervisor)
I would be interested in supervising research projects in:
• Corpus stylistics;
• Cognitive stylistics;
• Linguistic and stylistic approaches to literary and non-literary language.
Editorial board member in the Journal of the College of Education for Women, UOB, Iraq.
Journal of Stylistics and English Language Studies JSELS
A Member in the following committees:
- Doctoral thesis examination.The thesis entitled "Identifying and Teaching English Collocations for Persian Students" by Maryam Barghamadi, a PhD student at Flinders University, Australia The thesis examination committee consists of : Professor Joanne Arciuli Associate Professor James Rogers Asst. Professor Eman Adil Jaafar Associate Professor Amanda Müller (Supervisor)
- MA Examination Committee (2023-2024). -. M.A Students Competition Committee -. Viva Committee: A Member in viva committees
- Reviewer in many Scopus indexed journals.
Corpus Linguistics, Stylistics
MA Linguistics Syntax BA Grammar
Cognitive stylistics also well-known as cognitive poetics is a cognitive approach to language. This study aims at examining literary language by showing how Schema Theory and Text World Theory can be useful in the interpretation of literary texts. Further, the study attempts to uncover how readers can connect between the text world and the real world. Putting it differently, the study aims at showing how the interaction between ‘discourse world’ and ‘text world’. How readers can bring their own experience as well as their background knowledge to interact with the text and make interpretive connections. Schema and text world theories are useful tools in cognitive stylistic studies. The reader's perception o
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This study aims at shedding light on the linguistic significance of collocation networks in the academic writing context. Following Firth’s principle “You shall know a word by the company it keeps.” The study intends to examine three selected nodes (i.e. research, study, and paper) shared collocations in an academic context. This is achieved by using the corpus linguistic tool; GraphColl in #LancsBox software version 5 which was announced in June 2020 in analyzing selected nodes. The study focuses on academic writing of two corpora which were designed and collected especially to serve the purpose of the study. The corpora consist of a collection of abstracts extracted from two different academic journals that publish for writ
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