The battle for public opinion in the Islamic world is an ongoing priority for U.S. diplomacy. The current debate over why many Muslims hold anti-American views centers around whether individuals dislike “who Americans are” with respect to fundamental aspects of culture and government, or “what Americans do” policy-wise in international affairs. We propose, instead, that Muslim anti-Americanism ...

Verb regularization is often characterized as a morphological Americanism in contemporary English. Using synchronic approach, this study investigates the regular -ed vs. irregular -t alternation preterites and past participles from British, American, Nigerian Englishes. Although verb patterns English are considered to be under growing influence of American English, corpus evidence Global Web-ba...

The various and multifaceted wars in the Middle East have brought about weird complications in the already challenging multifarious international relations and interactions. The media coverage of terroristic threats in the Middle East and the European countries as well as United States has often targeted Muslim identity. The present study is aimed at analyzing Barack Obama's speech at Baltimore...