Nassier Al-Zubaidi is professor of English language and linguistics at the Department of English of the Faculty of Arts in Baghdad University, Iraq. He has a Ph.D. degree in English language and linguistics with a minor in cross-cultural pragmatics. Research interests include feminist linguistics, interlanguage and cross-cultural pragmatics, contrastive rhetoric, genre analysis, multimodal discourse analysis, critical discourse analysis and cultural linguistics. Al-Zubiadi has published many research papers in national and international academic journals besides a number of published books within the domain of linguistics. He is a member of the editorial boards of several international journals and of national and international academic societies of linguistics and translation studies.
2008-2012: Doctorate in English Language and Linguistics, University of Baghdad, Iraq (Honors). 1998-2000: Master of Arts in English Language and Linguistics, University of Baghdad, Iraq (Honors). 1994-1998: Bachelor of Arts in English Language and Literature, University of Baghdad, Iraq (Honors). 1989-1994: Diploma in English Pedagogy and Didactics, Teachers Training Institute, Baghdad, Iraq (Honors).
Teaching, advising, research conduction, and various administrative roles.
2022: Fellowship from the US Embassy in Baghdad to attend and participate TARII Research Conference “From Ancient to Modern: The Current State of Research on Iraq”, Washington, DC, USA.
2022: Fellowship from the Arab Council for the Social Sciences for participating in Training of Trainers workshop on “Data Management and Sharing for the Social Sciences” co-organized by the Arab Council for the Social Sciences and the Odum Institute for Research in Social Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Beirut, Lebanon, 2022.
2020, Research grant from The American Academic Research Institute in Iraq (TAARII) for conducting research related to Iraq, Jordan.
2019-2020, In-residence visiting scholar at The Brookings Institution with the Center for Universal Education completing a developed research project designed to increase the evidence base and improve girls’ education in Iraqi context, Washington DC, USA. (Declined).
2019-2020, Fellowship from the Carnegie Corporation of New York for participating in Research and Training Project on Understanding Marginalized Communities in the Arab World through Social Science Research: Gaining Insight, Enhancing Capacity, Building Collaborations and Contributing to Solutions, New York, USA.
2019, Fellowship from the Carnegie Corporation of New York and the Arab Council for the Social Sciences for participating in training workshop on “Data Sharing for the Public Good", Beirut, Lebanon.
2018-2019, Fellowship and grant from the Open Society Foundation and the Arab Council for the Social Sciences for writing a research paper on Transformative and Engaged Research on Gender Violence.
2018-2019, Fellowship from the Open Society Foundation and the Arab Council for the Social Sciences for participating in workshop on Transformative and Engaged Research on Gender Violence, Amman, Jordan.
2018, Fellowship from the American Political Science Association (APSA) and the University of Michigan for Participating in the Summer Program in Quantitative Methods of Social Research, Michigan, USA. (Decline)
2018, Fellowship from the Ford Foundation and the Arab Council for the Social Sciences for participating in Proposal Writing Workshop, Amman, Jordan.
2017, Fellowship from the Arab Council for the Social Sciences for intensive training workshops on Quantitative Research Methodology, Beirut, Lebanon.
2015, Visiting Scholar Grant from the British Institute for the Study of Iraq (IBIS) for conducting research at the School of English, Communication and Philosophy of Cardiff University, UK.
2015, Research grant from The American Academic Research Institute in Iraq (TAARII) for conducting research related to Iraq, Jordan.
2013, Fulbright visiting scholar scholarship and grant for training and conducting research at the Languages, Philosophy and Communication Studies Department of Utah State University, Utah, USA.
2011, PhD Dissertation scholarship grant from the Iraqi Ministry of Higher Education for travelling and conducting research at the Department of linguistics of Kansas University, Kansas, USA.
2010, Visiting Researcher Grant From CARA Iraq Research Fellowship Program for collecting data at the School of English of Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK. (Declined)
MEMBERSHIP A member of the Arab Society of English Language Studies, Amman, Jordan.- -A member of International Pragmatics Association, Belgium. A member of Linguistic Politeness Research Group, United Kingdom.- -A member of the editorial board of International Journal of Linguistics, United States of America. -A member of the editorial board of English Linguistics Research Journal, Canada. -A member of the editorial board of the International Journal of English Linguistics, Canada. A member of the Arab Council for the Social Sciences, Lebanon.-
- An associate member of The Arab Society of English Language Studies, Amman, Jordan.
-An associate member of The International Union of Languages and Translation, Jordan.
-A member of the editorial board of the Arts Faculty Journal of Baghdad University, Iraq.
-A certified translator of Iraqi Translators Association, Iraq.
-A member of Scientific Board of the English Department, Baghdad University, Iraq.
-An expert of the IREX Curriculum Development Board for improving and developing English language teaching and learning in Iraqi universities, Iraq.
-A member of the scientific committee of the Department of English of the Faculty of Arts in Baghdad University for steering and developing English language teaching and learning at the undergraduate and graduate level.
Feminist linguistics, interlanguage and cross-cultural pragmatics, contrastive rhetoric, genre analysis, multimodal discourse analysis, critical discourse analysis and cultural linguistics.
English language and linguistics.
September 2020- Present: Professor, Dept. of English, College of Arts, University of Baghdad, Iraq. August 2015- September 2020: Associate Professor, Dept. of English, College of Arts, University of Baghdad, Iraq. March 2012-July 2015: Assistant Professor, Dept. of English, College of Arts, University of Baghdad, Iraq. October 2009- February 2012: Lecturer, Dept. of English, College of Arts, University of Baghdad, Iraq. October 2004- September 2008: Assistant Lecturer, Dept. of English, College of Education, Omar Al-Mukhtar University, Libya. September 2007- June 2008: Instructor of English as a Foreign Language at Derna English Language Centre affiliated to Cambridge University, Derna, Libya. September 2002- July 2008: Assistant Lecturer, Dept. of English, College of Arts, University of Derna, Libya. November 2001- September 2004: Assistant Lecturer, Dept. of English, College of Arts, University of Al-Qubba, Al-Qubba, Libya. November 2001- September 2004: Assistant Lecturer, Dept. of Computer Sciences, the Higher Polytechnic Centre, Al-Qubba, Libya. October 2002- October 2003: Assistant lecturer, Dept. of English, College of Education, University of Al-Qubba, Al-Qubba, Libya. December 2001-September 2002: Assistant lecturer, Dept. of English, College of Arts, Omar Al-Mukhtar University, Al-Baidaa, Libya. December 2000-August 2001: Assistant Lecturer, Dept. of English, College of Languages, University of Baghdad, Iraq.
Supervising several MA and PhD students.
With the increasing rates of cancer worldwide, a great deal of scientific discourse is devoted to arguments and statements about cancer and its causes. Scientists from different fields try to seize any available chance to warn people of the risk of consuming and exposing to carcinogens that have, unfortunately, become essential parts of modern life. The present paper attempts to investigate the proximization strategy through which scientists construct carcinogen risk to enhance people’s preventive actions against these carcinogens. The paper targets the construction which depends on producing the conflict between the values of the people themselves and the contrasting values assigned to carcinogens. To achieve this aim, Cap’s (2
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Criticism is inherently impolite and a face-threatening act generally leading to conflicts among interlocutors. It is equally challenging for both native and non-native speakers, and needs pre-planning before performing it. The current research examines the production of non-institutional criticism by Iraqi EFL university learners and American native speakers. More specifically, it explores to what extent Iraqi EFL learners and American native speakers vary in (i) performing criticism, (ii) mitigating criticism, and (iii) their pragmatic choices according to the contextual variables of power and distance. To collect data, a discourse-completion task was used to elicit written data from 20 Iraqi EFL learners and 20 American native speaker
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تتقصى هذه الدراسة الاساليب التداولية للتأنيب لدى لطلبة العراقيين الجامعيين متعلمي اللغة الانكليزية لغة اجنبية من كلا الجنسين (ذكورا واناث) وتحديد الاساليب التداولية التي يفضلها كل منهما. تم اختبار اربعين طالبا مقسمين بالتساوي من كلا الجنسين تحريريا بأستخدام فرض اكمال النص. أظهرت النتائج بأن الطلبة العراقيين من كلا الجنسين يفضلون اسلوب التأزرعلى التمايز وتفضيل استخدام الالفة والصداقة من دون الاخلال با
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The present study examines critically the discursive representation of Arab immigrants in selected American news channels. To achieve the aim of this study, twenty news subtitles have been exacted from ABC and NBC channels. The selected news subtitles have been analyzed within van Dijk’s (2000) critical discourse analysis framework. Ten discourse categories have been examined to uncover the image of Arab immigrants in the American news channels. The image of Arab immigrants has been examined in terms of five ideological assumptions including "us vs. them", "ingroup vs. outgroup", "victims vs. agents", "positive self-presentation vs. negative other-presentation", and "threat vs. non-threat". Analysis of data reveals that Arab immig
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Videogames are currently one of the most widespread means of digital communication and entertainment; their releases are attracting considerable interest with growing number of audience and revenues each year. Videogames are examined by a variety of disciplines and fields. Nevertheless, scholarly attention concerned with the discourse of videogames from a linguistic perspective is relatively scarce, especially from a pragma-stylistic standpoint. This book addresses this vital issue by providing a pragma-stylistic analysis of the digital discourse of two well-known action videogames (First Person Shooter Games). It explores the role of the digital discourse of action videogames in maintaining real-like interactivity between the game and the
... Show Moreتتقصى هذه الدراسة التمثلات النمطية للمرأة ومكانتها في الممارسات النصية للأمثال الشعبية العراقية من منظور نسوي اسلوبي . أُعتُمِد إلاطار النظري لسارة ملّ (2008) لتحليل 315 مثلاً تم جمعُها من مصادر تحريرية وشفهية. كشف التحليل بأن المرأة عموما والزوجة خصوصا تم تمثيلهم بأطراد في الامثال الشعبية العراقية. ووجد أن الصفات الشخصية المعنوية التي ترتبط بالمرأة العراقية اكثرمن الصفات الشخصية المادية. وتم تمثيل النساء
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The present paper examines the genre of death notices in Iraqi newspapers in terms of its schematic and socio-cultural structure. Adopting Swales' [1990] rhetorical approach to genre analysis, the study has examined a corpus of 150 death texts
Expressions of Gratitude in American English and Iraqi Arabic (). Expressing gratitude is one of the most frequently occurring communicative acts in...