Najma Al Zidjaly is Associate Professor of Sociolinguistics in the Department of English Language and Literature (College of Arts & Social Sciences) at Sultan Qaboos University (Oman). She is the author of Disability, Discourse and Technology: Agency and Inclusion in (Inter)action (2015-Palgrave Macmillan) and the editor of the Special Issue on Society in Digital Contexts: New Modes of Identity and Community Construction (2019-Multilingua). Al Zidjaly has additionally published articles in scholarly high impact journals such as Language in Society; Discourse & Society; Discourse, Context & Media; Visual Communication; Communication & Medicine; Multimodal Communication; Linguistik Online; Russian Journal of Linguistics and Multilingua. Al Zidjaly’s research interests focus on social media and Arab (Omani) identity, and she serves in the directorial board of the Journal of Multimodal Communication. She is further An Associate Editor (for the Arab World) of the IPrA Bibliography of Pragmatics Online.

Linguistics

Arab States

Social Media And Arab Identity

English (native)

Arabic (native)