Farzaneh Hall, Room 323
Phone: 405-325-2918
Email: amel.khalfaoui@ou.edu
Amel Khalfaoui received a PhD in Linguistics with a minor in cognitive science from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, and is currently Associate Professor of Arabic Language and Linguistics at the University of Oklahoma with a joint appointment in the Department of International and Area Studies and the Department of Modern Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics. She has previously taught Linguistics and Arabic at the University of Minnesota, Macalester College, and Florida Atlantic University. Her area of specialization is linguistic pragmatics. She is specifically interested in investigating the linguistic and cognitive factors that determine the speakers’ choices of referring expressions and discourse markers.
