Curriculum Vitae

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Zouhair Maalej CV
Curriculum Vitae
Personal Data
Family name Maalej First name Zouhair Sex
Male Date/Place of Birth 29 April 1954/ Sfax
Tunisia Nationality Tunisian Marital Status
Married with two children. Work address
College of Languages Translation King Saud
University P.O. Box 87907, Riyadh 11652, KSA
Office phone [phone] (1B 17)
Mobile [phone] Emails
zmaalej_at_ksu.edu.sa zouhairmaalej_at_gmail.com
zmaalej_at_gnet.tn URL http//faculty.ksa.edu.sa/z
maalej Education 2003 Habilitation
(Post-doctoral Degree), Faculty of Letters,
Manouba (University of Manouba). 1990 Ph.D.
(D.R.A.), University of Tunis, Faculty of
Letters, Manouba, Department of English. Title
Metaphor in Political and Economic Texts.
1984 MA (C.A.R.), University of Tunis, Faculty
of Arts 9 April, Department of English. Title
A Contrastive Analysis of English and Arabic
Complement Sentences. 1980 BA (Maitrise),
University of Tunis, Faculty of Arts 9 April,
Department of English Professional experience
2007-2008 (Associate professor) Responsible
for lecturing undergraduate students at the
Department of European Languages and Translation,
College of Languages Translation, King Saud
University. 2006-2007 (Associate professor)
Responsible for the design, preparation,
selection of course materials, and lecturing
undergraduate and postgraduate students.
Co-ordinator of academic and pedagogic affairs at
the department of English, Ecole Normale
Superieure, Tunis. 2005-2006 (Associate
professor)
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Zouhair Maalej CV Responsible for the design,
preparation, selection of course materials, and
lecturing undergraduate and postgraduate
students. 2004-2005 (Associate professor)
Chair of Department of English, Faculty of
Letters, Arts, and Humanities (University of
Manouba) Responsible for academic/pedagogic
and administrative activities in the department.
Responsible for the design, preparation,
selection of course materials, and lecturing
undergraduate and postgraduate students.
2003-2004 (Assistant professor) Chair of
Department of English, Faculty of Letters, Arts,
and Humanities (University of Manouba)
Responsible for academic/pedagogic and
administrative activities in the department.
Responsible for the design, preparation,
selection of course materials, and lecturing
undergraduate and postgraduate students.
2002-2003 (Assistant Professor) Senior
Fulbright scholar at the Department of
linguistics, Albuquerque (University of New
Mexico). Responsible for the design,
preparation, selection of course materials, and
lecturing postgraduate students a course on
Topics in Cognitive Pragmatics. 1999 2002
(Assistant Professor) Head of Department of
English, Faculty of Arts, Manouba, University of
Manouba Responsible for academic/pedagogic and
administrative activities in the department.
Responsible for the design, preparation,
selection of course materials, and lecturing
undergraduate and postgraduate students.
19931999 (Assistant Professor) Responsible
for the design, preparation, selection of course
materials, and lecturing undergraduate students.
19901993 (Research Assistant) Responsible
for the design, preparation, selection of course
material, and lecturing undergraduate students.
Courses taught include the following
1985-1990 (PES) Responsible for the
preparation and teaching of language courses for
students in departments other than English at
University. Courses taught (alphabetically)
Advanced Writing Cognitive Stylistics/Rhetoric
Comparative Culture Comparative Stylistics
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Zouhair Maalej CV
Composition Critical Discourse Analysis
Critical Metaphor Analysis Grammar
Introduction to Discourse Analysis
Introduction to Linguistics Introduction to
Pragmatics Introduction to Psycholinguistics
Introduction to Sociolinguistics Introduction
to Stylistics Psycholinguistics Research
Methodology Speaking Structure of English
Topics in Cognitive Pragmatics Topics in
Critical Discourse Analysis Translation
Studies Translation for Engineering Writing
and Research Skills Computer Skills Expert
command of word processing using Word, Word
Perfect, and Lotus Word Pro. Expert command of
Internet and Computer Technology in Research.
Expert command of PowerPoint writing and
presenting Medium command of SPSS for empirical
research Medium command of online concordances
for empirical research Publications (1994).
English-Arabic machine translation of nominal
compounds. In P. Bouillon D. Estival (Eds.),
Proceedings of the workshop on compound Nouns
Multilingual aspects of nominal composition (pp.
135-146). Geneva ISSCO. (1998-99). Passives
in Modern Standard and Tunisian Arabic. Matériaux
Arabes et Sudarabiques-Gellas 9, 51-76.
(1999). Metaphor making and processing. Journal
of Literary Semantics, 28(2), 105-123. (1999).
Metaphoric discourse in the age of cognitive
linguistics, with special reference to Tunisian
Arabic. Journal of Literary Semantics, 28(3),
189-206. (1999). Interpersonal perception in
self-promotional discourse. The Tunisian Review
of Modern Languages 9, 155-174. 3
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Zouhair Maalej CV (2000). Passives in modern
standard and Tunisian Arabic. In M. Mifsud,
(Ed.), Proceedings of the third international
conference of AIDA (Association Internationale de
Dialectologie Arabe) (pp. 21-26). Malta
Salesian Press. (2001). Understanding
pictorial metaphor in advertising A
cross-cultural perspective. Academic Research,
1(1), 19-42. (2002). The image-schematic
anchorage of the preposition fi (in) The logic
of containment in Tunisian Arabic. In S. Csábi
J. Zerkowitz (Eds.), Textual secrets The
message of the medium (pp. 227-236). (Proceedings
of the 21st PALA Conference). Budapest,
Hungary Eötvös Lorand University. (2002).
Modal auxiliaries A proposal for an
experientialist-pragmatic account. Etudes
Linguistiques 4, 59-83. (2003). Guidelines for
the translation of English nominal compounds into
Arabic A computational discourse model. The
Tunisian Review of Modern Languages 11, 139-167.
(2003). Conceptual metaphor as persuasion, with
special reference to consumer advertising A
cognitive semantics account. In M. Triki A.
Sellami-Baklouti (Eds.), Pragmatic perspectives
on persuasion (pp. 121-147). Sfax, Tunisia
Faculty of Letters and Humanities. (2004).
Figurative language in anger expressions in
Tunisian Arabic An extended view of embodiment.
Metaphor and Symbol, 19(1), 51-75. (2005).
Assigning metaphoric interpretations to
basic-level categories among Arab students of
English. In Z. Maalej (Ed.), Metaphor, cognition,
and culture (pp. 133-162). Manouba, Tunis
Publications of the University of Manouba.
(2005). (Ed.). Metaphor, cognition and culture
Selected papers from the fourth conference on
researching and applying metaphor. Manouba,
Tunis Faculty of Letters, Arts, and Humanities.
(2007). The embodiment of fear expressions in
Tunisian Arabic Theoretical and practical
implications. In F. Sharifian G. B. Palmer
(Eds.), Applied cultural linguistics
Implications for second language learning and
intercultural communication (pp. 87-104).
Amsterdam/Philadelphia John Benjamins
Publishing Company. (2007). Doing critical
discourse analysis with the contemporary theory
of metaphor Towards a discourse model of
metaphor. In C. Hart D. Luke (Eds.), Cognitive
linguistics in critical discourse studies
Application and theory (pp. ). Cambridge
Cambridge Scholars Press. (Forth.). Metaphors
of learning and knowledge in the Tunisian
context A case of re-categorization. In E.
Berendt (Ed.), Metaphors of Learning (pp.
205-223). Amsterdam/Philadelphia John
Benjamins. Book reviews (2001). Review of
Pragmatic meaning and cognition (by Sophia
Marmaridou, 2000). Journal of Literary
Semantics, 30(3), 203-210. (2001). Review of
Simultaneous interpretation A cognitive-pragmatic
analysis (by Robin Setton, 1999). Journal of
Literary Semantics, 30(3), 210-214. Also
available online at http//www.linguistlist.org/i
ssues/10/10-1951.html 4
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language of deception. A discourse analytical
study (by Dariusz Galasinski, 2000). Discourse
Studies, 3(3), 376-78. (2001). Review of
Gesture, speech and sign (by Lynn Messing Ruth
Campbell (Eds.), 1999). Sign Language Studies,
2(1), 116-131. Also available online at
http//www.linguistlist.org/issues/11/11-2175.html
(2002). Review of Metaphor and metonymy at
the crossroads A cognitive perspective (by
Antonio Barcelona (Ed.), 2000). Language and
Literature, 11(2), 180-183. (2002). Review of
Brown tide rising Metaphors of Latinos in
contemporary American public discourse (by Otto
Santa Ana, 2002). Discourse Society, 15(1),
134-135. Review of Language and space (1999),
by Mary Bloom, A. Peterson, Lynn Nadel Merrill
F. Garrett (eds.). Cambridge/London The MIT
Press. Available online at http//www.linguistli
st.org/issues/11/11-1672.html1 Review of
Perception, cognition and language Essays in
honor of Henry and Lila Gleitman (2000), by
Barbara Landau, John Sabini, John Jonides
Elissa L. Newport (eds.). Cambridge/London The
MIT Press. Available online at
http//www.linguistlist.org/issues/12/12-1254.html
Review of Pragmatics Critical concepts
(Pragmatics, grammar, psychology, sociology,
Vol. VI) (1998) by Asa Kasher (Ed.). London New
York Routledge. (Available online at
http//www.linguistlist.org/issues/12/12-221.html
Review of Contexts of metaphor (2001), by
Michiel Leezenberg. Amsterdam and London
Elsevier. Available online at http//www.linguist
list.org/issues/12/12-3034.html Review of
Language, cognition, and the brain. Insights from
sign language research (2002), by Karen Emmorey.
New Jersey/London Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Available online at http//www.linguistlist.org/
issues/13/13-1631.html Review of Modality and
its interaction with the verbal system (2002), by
Sjef Barbiers, Frits Beukema, and Wim van der
Wurff (Eds). Amsterdam/Philadelphia John
Benjamins Publishing Company. Review of
Relevance and linguistic meaning The semantics
and pragmatics of discourse Markers, by Diane
Blakemore (2002). Cambridge CUP. Available
online at http//www.linguistlist.org/issues/14/1
4-459.html Review of Pragmatics and discourse
A resource book for students, by Joan Cutting
(2002). London and New York Routledge (Routledge
English Language Introductions).
http//www.linguistlist.org/issues/14/14-1015.html
Available online at Review of Childrens
discourse Person, space and time across
languages, by Maya Hickmann (2003). Cambridge
Cambridge University Press (Cambridge Studies in
Linguistics 98). Available online at
http//www.linguistlist.org/issues/14/14-1368.html
Review of Deictic conceptualisation of space,
time and person, edited by Friedrich Lenz
(2003). Amsterdam and Philadelphia John
Benjamins Publishing Company (Pragmatics
Beyond New Series 112). Available online at
http//www.linguistlist.org/issues/14/14-2209.html
Review of Cognitive models in language and
thought Ideology, metaphors and meanings
(2003), edited by René Dirven, Roslyn Frank, and
Martin Pütz. Mouton de Gruyter, Cognitive
Linguistics Research 24. Available online at
http//www.linguistlist.org/issues/14/14/3047.html
Review of Modality in contemporary English
(edited by Roberta Facchinetti, Manfred Krug,
and Frank Palmer, 2003). Journal of English
Linguistics, 34(1), 60-65. 5
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Zouhair Maalej CV Review of An introduction to
critical discourse analysis in education (2004),
edited by Rebecca Rogers. Mahwah, New Jersey
Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. Forthcoming
Papers The heart and cultural embodiment in
Tunisian Arabic. In R. Dirven, F. Sharifian N.
Yu (Eds.), Looking for the mind inside the body
Conceptualization of heart and other internal
body organs across languages and cultures.
Amsterdam/Philadelphia John Benjamins.
Cognitive perspective on proverbs and its
implications for translation. Journal of
Proverbs. Unpublished papers (1997).
"Universal grammar in translation pedagogy."
Paper read to the English Department Conference
on Discourse and Translation (University of the
South, Sfax, 1997). (1998). "Rhetorical
strategies in Tunisian students' written
production." Joint paper read to the First
International Contrastive Rhetoric Conference
(American University in Cairo, Egypt). (1999).
Translating metaphor between unrelated cultures
A cognitive approach. Paper read to the Third
International Conference on Researching and
Applying Metaphor (RAAM III) Metaphor across
Languages Translation and Intercultural
Communication, Including Literature. Tilbürg,
The Netherlands, 30 June/2 July 1999. (2000).
"What cognitive linguistics can teach us about
translation." Paper read at the Translation
Comparative Stylistics Study Day, University of
the South, Sfax (18 February 2000). (2000).
"Cognitive linguistics Implications and
applications." Paper read to the Linguistics
Translation Seminar, University of the South,
Sfax (10 March 2000). (2000). "A cognitive
stylistics for the millennium." Paper read to the
Millennium PALA Conference, Goldsmiths College,
University of London (29 June 2 July 2000).
(2001). "Of animals, foods, objects, and plants,
or how women are conceptualized A
cross-cultural perspective." Paper read to the
Fourth International Conference on Researching
and Applying Metaphor (RAAM IV) Metaphor,
Cognition, and Culture. Faculty of Letters,
Manouba, Tunis (5-7 April 2001). (2001) On the
role of Arabic in the misuse of English
determination in Arab students written
production. Work in Progress A book project
on the Contemporary Cognitive Theory of Metaphor
Arabic Data A book project on Cognitive Theory
of Translation Participation in national and
international meetings 6
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Zouhair Maalej CV Workshop on Compound Nouns
Multilingual Aspects of Nominal Composition.
Geneva ISSCO, December 1994. English
Department Conference on Dualities. University of
Tunis Manouba (1996). English Department
Conference on Discourse and Translation.
University of the South, Sfax (1997).
Department of English Conference on Discourse.
University of Tunis I, 9 Avril Faculty (March
1998). Third International Conference of AIDA.
Malta, 29 March-2 April 1998. Third
International Conference on Researching and
Applying Metaphor (RAAM III) Metaphor across
Languages Translation and Intercultural
Communication, Including Literature. Tilbürg,
The Netherlands, 30 June/2 July 1999. First
International Conference on Contrastive Rhetoric.
English and Arabic Teaching English to Arabic
Speakers/Teaching Arabic to English Speakers.
Egypt AUC, 19-20 February 1999. Twentieth
International Poetics and Linguistics Association
Conference. The Millennium PALA Conference A
Stylistics for the Millennium. Goldsmiths
College, University of London, 29 June/2 July
2000. English Department Linguistics
Translation Seminar. University of the South,
Sfax (February 2000). English Department
Pragmatics Critical Discourse Analysis
Symposium Deconstructing Persuasion.
University of the South, Sfax (April 2000).
Symposium on Lyric Poetry in honor of Dr Anouar
Attia. Department of English, Manouba (8-10
March 2001). Second International Conference on
Contrastive Rhetoric Linguistics, Culture and
Teaching. Egypt AUC, 22-24 March 2001. Fourth
International Conference on Researching and
Applying Metaphor (RAAM III) Metaphor,
Cognition, and Culture. Faculty of Arts, Manouba,
Tunis, 5-7 April, 2001. Twenty-first
International Poetics and Linguistics Association
Conference. Textual Secrets. The Message of the
Medium. Eötvös Lorand University, Budapest,
Hungary, 12-15 April 2001. Fifth High Desert
Linguistic Society (HDLS) Conference. University
of New Mexico, Albuquerque, 1-2 November 2002.
Fifth International Conference on Researching
and Applying Metaphor (RAAM V) Metaphor,
Categorisation and Abstraction A
Multidisciplinary Approach. Université Paris
13, France, 3-6 September 2003. Fifth
Tunisia-Japan Symposium on Culture, Science and
Technology. Faculty of Letters and Human
Sciences at Sfax (Tunisia), 24-26 May 2004.
International Conference on Constructing Worlds
through Language, organized by the English
Department in Sfax in collaboration with the
Discourse Analysis Research Group (GRAD), 29-30
April 2005 (Sfax-Tunisia). Ninth International
Cognitive Linguistics Conference Language, Mind,
and Brain. Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea,
17-22 July 2005. Sixth International
Conference on Researching and Applying Metaphor
(RAAM IV) Metaphor in the real world.
University of Leeds, UK, 10-12 April 2006.
International Conference on Ambiguity and
Disambiguation, organized by the English
Department in Sfax in collaboration with the
Discourse Analysis Research Group (GRAD)
(Sfax-Tunisia), 5-6 May 2006. 7
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Zouhair Maalej CV First International
Conference on Critical Approaches to Discourse
Analysis across Disciplines (CADAAD).
University of East Anglia (UK), 29-30 June 2006.
Tenth International Congress of IGEL
(International Society for the Empirical Study of
Literature). Frauenwörth im Chiemsee (Munich),
5-9 August, 2006. Tenth International Cognitive
Linguistics Conference Cognitive Linguistics in
action From theory to application and back.
Jagiellonian University of Krakow, Poland, 15-20
July 2007. Journals contributed to Academic
Research (local) Discourse Society
Discourse Studies Journal of English
Linguistics Journal of Literary Semantics
Language and Literature Metaphor Symbol
Sign Language Studies Tunisian Review of
Modern Languages (local) Quoted The CSA
Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts
database. Dickins, J. (2005). Two models for
metaphor translation. Target, 17(2), 227-273.
Forceville, C. (2006). Non-verbal and multimodal
metaphor in a cognitivist framework Agendas for
Research. In G. Kristiansen, M. Achard, R.
Dirven F. R. Mendoza (Eds.), Applications of
cognitive linguistics Foundations and fields of
application (pp. ). Berlin/New York Mouton de
Gruyter. Gibbs, R. W. (2006). Embodiment and
cognitive science. Cambridge Cambridge
University Press. Koller, V. (2003). Metaphor
clusters in business media discourse A social
cognition approach. Ph.D. Dissertation
University of Vienna. Kövecses, Z. (2005).
Metaphor in culture Universality and variation.
Cambridge Cambridge University Press.
Kövecses, Z. (2005). Language, mind, and
culture. Oxford Oxford University Press.
MacArthur, F. (2005). The competent horseman in
a horseless world Observations on a
conventional metaphor in Spanish and English.
Metaphor and Symbol, 20(1), 71-94. Romero, E.,
Soria, B. (2005). Cognitive metaphor theory
revisited. Journal of Literary Semantics,
34(1), 1-20. Strack, D. C. (2007). Literature
in the crucible of translation A cognitive
account. Okayama, Japan University Education
Press. Wilcox, P. P. (in press). Constructs of
the mind Cross-linguistic contrast of metaphor
in spoken and signed languages. In E. Pizzuto,
P. Pietrandrea, R. Simone (Eds.), Verbal and
signed languages Comparing structures,
constructs and methodologies (pp. 249-270).
Berlin/New York Mouton de Gruyter. 8
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Polzenhagen (2003). Conceptual metaphor as
ideological stylistic means An exemplary
analysis. In Dirven, René, Roslyn Frank Martin
Pütz (Eds.), Cognitive Models in Language and
Thought Ideology, Metaphors and Meanings. Berlin
and New York Mouton de Gruyter, pp. 247-275.
Related Experience 1998 Participated in the
selection and assessment of one textbook for
English in secondary education titled, Spread
Your Wings. 2000 One of the founding members
of the ELTecs for the Middle East and North
Africa (under British Council sponsorship,
Morocco, March 2000). 2001 Organizer of the
Fourth International Conference on Researching
and Applying Metaphor (RAAM IV) Metaphor,
Cognition, and Culture. Faculty of Arts, Manouba,
Tunis, 5-7 April, 2001. 2005 Member of the
Scientific Board of the Sixth Researching and
Applying Metaphor Conference (RAAM VI) held in
Leeds (10-12 April 2006). 2006 Member of the
Editorial Board of the International Journal of
Arabic and English Studies (IJAES). 2006
Member of the Editorial Board of the
International Journal of Proverbs. 2006 Member
of the Editorial Board of the Online Critical
Approaches to Discourse Analysis Across
Disciplines Online (CADAAD Online) at
http//discourse.uea.ac.uk 2008 Member of the
Scientific Board of the Seventh Researching and
Applying Metaphor Conference (RAAM VI) held in
Cáceres, Spain (29-31 May 2008). MA and Ph.D.
supervision
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Participation in MA and Ph.D. viva voce
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Professional membership Member of PALA (Poetics
And Linguistics Association)
Founder Member of RaAM Association (Researching
and Applying Metaphor) Member of IGEL
(International Society for the Empirical Study of
Literature) Member of CADAAD (Critical
Approaches to Discourse Analysis Across
Disciplines) Member of the editorial board of
Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis Across
Disciplines Online (CADAAD Online). Member
of the editorial board of the Journal of Arabic
and English Studies (JAES) Member of the
seventh international conference on Researching
and Applying Metaphor (RaAM 7) Research
interests Metaphor Cognitive Linguistics
(Cognitive) Pragmatics (Critical) Discourse
Analysis Translation studies Awards Senior
Fulbright Award (2002-2003) spent at the
Department of Linguistics, University of New
Mexico, Albuquerque (USA). References Prof.
Ayetallah Mohammed Alabadi, Professor of Applied
Linguistics and Director of the Language Center,
Private University of Nizwa, Oman. Mailto
abadi_at_unizwa.edu.om Prof. Mohamed Daoud,
Professor of Linguistics, Department of English
at ISLT, University of 7 November. Mailto
mdaoud_at_gnet.tn Prof. Mounir Triki, Professor of
Linguistics, Department of English, Faculty of
Arts Human Sciences, Sfax University of the
South, Tunisia. Mailto mtriki2001_at_yahoo.com
Prof. Habib Abdessalem, Professor of
Linguistics, Department of English, Faculty of
Letters Human Sciences, University of
Kairouan, Tunisia. Mailto habdessalem_at_yahoo.co.uk
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