Hana El-Shazli
Doctoral Student
Linguistics and Theory of Science unitAbout Hana El-Shazli
I'am a Ph.D. student in Linguistics at Gothenburg University, supervised by Eva-Marie Bloom Ström and Henrik Bergqvist.
My research focuses on the study, description, and documentation of an endangered language, Sanna (Cypriot Maronite Arabic), spoken by a part of the Maronite community in Cyprus. I am particularly interested in exploring spontaneous speech in interactional contexts, examining its espistmic and pragmatic aspects while considering the impact of language contact (with Cypriot Greek, Cypriot Turkish, English, French, and Italian) on speech and language structure based on interviews and data collected while conducting fiedlwork in Cyprus.
I'm also interested in the use of Sanna's language in historical docuements and the socio-history of the Maronite community in Cyprus, from both diachronic and synchronic perspectives, based on letters and data collected from various archival sites. This includes Ottoman administrative records from the 16th to the 19th centuries, collected in the Türkiye Cumhuriyeti Cumhurbaşkanlığı Devlet Arşivleri Başkanlığı Osmanlı Arşivi (the Ottoman Archives of the Presidency of the Republic of Türkiye Directorate of State Archives), the national archives in Istanbul during June-July 2023, and in the Milli Arşiv (the National Archives) in Kyrenia during July-August 2024. The secondary sources consulted were letters collected at the Vatican archives, specifically the Archivum de Propaganda Fide, in January 2026.
I obtained my Master's degree in Linguistics and my Bachelor's degree in Arabic and Middle-Eastern Studies from The Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales (Inalco) in Paris, France. I conducted previous research studies during my Master's program at Inalco. They focused on "L'emprunt linguistique dans l'arabe chypriote / Linguistic Borrowing in Cypriot Arabic" in (2020) and "Effets du contact de langue, entre supplétisme et bilinguisme: le cas de l'arabe chypriote/ Effects of Language Contact: Between Bilingualism and Suppletion - The Case of Cypriot Arabic" in 2022.