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 cognitive and pragmatic aspects while considering the impact of language contact (with Cypriot Greek, Cypriot Turkish, English, French, and Italian) on speech and language structure.
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.