Khalid Shakir Hussein

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How can you separate writing an article for the sake of pleasure and enjoyment and writing an article for the sake of academic promotion?

The hectic epidemic of publishing in highly ranking journals leaves nothing of the pleasure of writing for the sake of writing.

02 February 2019 3,317 3 View

Am I mistaken to think that RG is an environment for academic Research Questions?

Some questions raised in RG are quite irrelevant and make RG sound like Facebook!!!!

12 December 2017 6,112 15 View

Isn't it statistically naive to consider the keyness of tokens/words as simply the frequency of their occurrences within a corpus?

keyness of tokens/ words should not be exclusively simplified by the statistics of frequency but rather some more sophisticated measures are required such as a reference corpus.

12 December 2017 2,638 5 View

Do you find it a little bit weird to view phonetics as an area located outside the territories of linguistics?

Is it still the case that training in phonetics is only a prerequisite to be a linguist?

09 September 2017 1,022 1 View

Do you think it is unforgivable for professors to teach their students without exposing the big picture?

Why does it happen a lot that linguists teach pragmatics without taking into account the philosophy of ordinary language, they teach linguistics without highlighting the long term goal of knowing...

09 September 2017 9,438 3 View

In what way does stylistics provide a common ground for a literary reader and a linguistic observer?

What kind of insights does stylistics sustain in a communication between critics and linguists?

09 September 2017 1,106 5 View

Is there any software for calculating READABILITY in Arabic?

08 August 2017 7,852 3 View

How far readability is reliable in evaluating the loss of translation?

Loss of translation might be scored rigorously if readability and some other statistical measures can be brought together in one basket of evaluation.

08 August 2017 1,272 4 View

Does academic integrity go with raising QUESTIONS for the sake of questions in Researchgate?!

What lies behind the philosophy of having a researchgate account is supposed to be a persistent desire to think of genuine questions rather than fony ones with a hectic preoccupation of improving...

07 July 2017 2,009 1 View

Do you think CONCEPTUAL METAPHORS have any psychological reality?

I mean they are still hypothesized entities with no rigorous verification.

01 January 1970 3,006 1 View