Rania Habib - Profile

Dr. Rania Habib is a Professor of Linguistics and Arabic in the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics at Syracuse University. Her research activities cover diverse topics in Arabic linguistics and sociolinguistics, with a special focus on language variation and change. This diversity of topics and broad connectivity of sociolinguistics to various linguistic structures establishes her research as interdisciplinary because it often necessitates working at the interfaces of different subfields of linguistics, including pragmatics, discourse and conversational analysis, second dialect/language acquisition, phonology, morphology, syntax, bi-/multilingualism/culturalism, language teaching, and cross-cultural communication. Dr. Rania's research aims to discover the different patterns of language use, including discourse and pragmatic features and variation and change in rural and urban Arabic-speaking communities, with particular focus on Syria, additionally Cutting across various subfields of linguistics, methods (qualitative, quantitative, ethnographic, and formal), approaches (synchronic, diachronic/historical, phonological, syntactic, morphophonological, pragmatic, sociopsychological, and/or ideological), and perspectives. Her publications have appeared in top-tier journals in linguistics, such as Language Variation and Change, Journal of Child Language, Journal of Pragmatics, Canadian Journal of Linguistics, etc.