Hasan Abu-Krooz

University Of Kufa | UOK · Department of English Language

Populism is one of the main political buzzwords of the 21st century. Recently, populism has attracted considerable interest in the social scientists and political commentators’ works and researching efforts. However, the present study aims at producing a pragmatic structure of the populism linguistic phenomenon, i.e. the pragmatic components of whi...

The social features of language refers to the variety usage of language by variety of people in different situations for different purposes. The model used for this purpose is used to show the deviation within language usage by different people. The present study tries to demonstrate the grammatical and phonological deviations in Eugene O'Neill's p...

News Conflict is an old-new topic that has been scrutinized and studied from different angles. Yet, no attempt of a comprehensive pragma- discoursal treatment or analysis of the pragmatic elements of news discourse has been spotted. Thus, this work concerns itself with the attempt of designing a rather comprehensive pragma-discoursal approach to in...

Abstract News Conflict is an old-new topic that has been scrutinized and studied from different angles. Yet, no attempt of a comprehensive pragma- discoursal treatment or analysis of the pragmatic elements of news discourse has been spotted. Thus, this work concerns itself with the attempt of designing a rather comprehensive pragma-discoursal appro...

It is not an easy task to compare or contrast two different languages descending from biologically remote ancestors such as English (the Indo-European language) and Arabic (the Semitic language). Contrastivists face a good deal of difficulties in contrasting these two distinct languages, particularly on the linguistic levels of analysis. The lingui...

الترجمة : الترجمة فن تطبيقى، وقد استخدم بعض الأساتذة فى مجال الترجمة كلمة فن بالمعنى العام والذى يقصد به أن الترجمة تمثل الحرفة التى لا يمكن إتقانها إلا بالدربة والمران والممارسة استناداً إلى موهبة. بل ربما للترجمة جوانب جمالية وإبداعية. لذلك لا يمكن للمترجم أن يخرج نصاً مقبول مترجماً عن اللغة العربية واللغة الإنجليزية مهما كان حظه من العلم باللغتي...

The relationship between Semiotics and dictionaries is a wide topic that has chiefly been investigated and studied from a pure semiotic point of view. Yet, the pragma-semiotic functions that are performed by dictionaries and to which a crucial part of dictionary compiling is attributed, have broadly remained intact. To bridge this gap, the current...

The term 'code-switching' refers to the juxtaposition of elements from two (or more) languages or dialects. There is, however, little agreement among scholars on either the semantic scope of the term as they use it, or the nature of distinctions to be drawn between it and other, related terms such as code mixing. The term 'code-mixing' is a fluid o...

Negotiation is a vehicle of communication. It is a form of interaction among social interactants that is structured by certain aspects, norms, and tactics, and that is productive of social resources. This paper is an attempt to tackle the pragmatic nature of the term negotiation, and offers a theoretical background about the significant pragmatic i...

This thesis is an attempt to􀀃 study gossip in four novels by Jane Austen: Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Emma and Persuasion. It pragmatically tackles gossip in these literary works. Consequently, it attempts to achieve the following aims: (1) identifying the pragmatic structure of gossip, that is the major pragmatic components of whic...

This paper attempts to provide a contrastive account of Cohesion and Coherence Theory between its English version and that of Arabic.It purports that the roots of this theory in Arabic precede those in English.Besides, the study shows that there similarities and differences between the two versions in diverse areas.The similarities are taken as ind...