Sarab Kadir

University of Diyala · College of Basic Education

In this study, the researchers attempt to recheck Code-Switching phenomenon (CS), its causes, types, theories and its consequences. To keep clear and to avoid obscure use of the term, the researchers tend to initially define the concept and draw a distinctive line to separate CS from other related terms such as code-mixing (CM), lexical-switching (...

This paper is concerned with the investigation of the semantic deviation in two poems; the Arabic poem by Al-Sayyab, The Detective and the English one by Eliot, Ash-Wednesday. The study adopts Geoffrey Leech's (1969) model of deviation taxonomy in the analyses of the two poems. Basically, Leech distinguishes three types of deviation; semantic devia...

The study attempts to examine and analyze Ted Hughes' style in his poem the wind. The poem is about the natural element, wind, which is described in an unconventional manner. The analysis of study adopts an integrated approach of language and literature. A modified stylistic model of Halliday and Hassan (1976:2) is used for the purposes of linguist...

The study presents the linguistic issue about the emergence of vocative particle (yaa) and its rhetoric effects in Al-Mutanabbi's poetry. The study indicates a perspective on grammatical structure towards this phenomenon and afterward its implications that is identified with the context in which it is introduced, realizing that rhetoric neither ori...

The present study adopts a stylistic theory to explain and examine Wordsworth's nature poem that is Lines Written in early Spring. This study examines the following categories: phonology ( rhythm and stress), semantics and syntax according to the adopted approach. Via the mentioned stylistic categories, the study aims to give the interpretation of...

The current research attempts to clarify and distinguish Arabic determined gemination\ doubling "tashdiid" especially in two categories: verbs and nouns. The research respects the fundamental etymological assets for clarifying an intensity or richness in the language structure and vocabulary. We can consider a significance of doubling or what is ca...

Abstrac The objective of this paper is to examine some stylistic features found in Ernest Hemingway's novel "For Whom the Bell Tolls", and to analyze further his specific style of writing and its special effect. This is accomplished by utilising the theories of stylistics. A modified stylistic model of Leech (1969) is used for the purposes of lingu...

Title: Research Mosaics of Language Studies in Asia Differences and Diversity Editors: Salasiah Che Lah, Rita Abdul Rahman Ramakrishna Price: RM84.00 ISBN: 978-967-461-369-3 Research Mosaics of LANGUAGE STUDIES IN ASIA Differences and Diversity This book gives readers a present and critical view of different language and linguistic issues in select...

The objective of this paper is to examine some stylistic features found in Ernest Hemingway’s novel “For Whom the Bell Tolls”, and to analyze further his specific style of writing and its special effect. This is accomplis- hed by utilising the theories of stylistics. A modified stylistic model of Leech (1969) is used for the purposes of linguist...

Oscar Wilde's fairy story The Nightingale and the Rose, like other Oscar Wilde's short stories, is written in an aesthetic voice. During this fairy tale, Oscar Wilde uses various stylistic devices for the interpretation of aesthetic and artistic notions. Here our focus is on finding out the literary stylistic devices that bestow idiosyncrasy on the...

The study investigates the effect of sex and age on the use of hedges in Facebook comments. The sample of the study consists of 300 comments written by native male and female Facebook users as their reflections to the same posts. The procedures followed in this study cover the discussion of the phenomenon and then its relation to world of social me...

Abstract The study investigates the effect of sex and age on the use of hedges in Facebook comments. The sample of the study consists of 300 comments written by native male and female Facebook users as their reflections to the same posts. The procedures followed in this study cover the discussion of the phenomenon and then its relation to world of...

This study presents a stylistic analysis of Sillitoe's novel providing examples of foregrounding of structural patterns as well as the grammatical forms used by the characters. It attempts to investigate the style and the language of the novel by focusing on the overall structure of the novel thereby leading to a deeper understanding of the text. M...

This study is an attempt to investigate and analyze the linguistic forms of modal verbs in three Iraqi dialects. These modal verbs are "can", "will" and "must" and the dialects under study are Musiliyah that is spoken in Mosul province in the north of Iraq, Baghdadiyah that is spoken in Baghdad city in the middle of Iraq and Basriyah that is spoken...

This study tries to analyze Donald Trump's Victory Speech from the Interpersonal Metafunction aspect. This paper is going to examine the following implications of speech: (a) The positive declarative sentences. (b) The common uses of the pronouns “we”, "I", "you", "it" and also the style of “we”-“you”-“we” respectively. (c) The modal verbal "will",...

Dedication This study is dedicated to my family and the Iraqi people whom I love and respect. iv ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

All the fun is in how you say a thing. " Robert Frost's words give us a perfect explanation about why style is important in a research. According to Alan Warner, style is a way of writing, a manner of expressing one's thoughts and feelings in words. A same meaning can have different effects on its readers by being put in different ways. This paper...

In this study, stylistic methods are adopted to analyze Wordsworth's nature poem Lines Written in Early Spring. The poem is analyzed according to rhythm (only if necessary), syntax and semantics, which combined with the content to make clear how Wordsworth contrasts the harmony of nature with the disharmony of human society. The stylistic devices t...

Languages have various devices that ensure the principle of linguistic economy since they provide a way of avoiding duplication and of following the maxim of "Be concise". Such devices include: reference, substitution, ellipsis, conjunction, and lexical cohesion. Ellipsis is a kind of reduction and it is used to avoid repetition. Therefore, it can...

Languages have various devices that ensure the principle of linguistic economy since they provide a way of avoiding duplication and of following the maxim of "Be concise". Such devices include: reference, substitution, ellipsis, conjunction, and lexical cohesion. Ellipsis is a kind of reduction and it is used to avoid repetition. Therefore, it can...

Lakoff. ‫ﺔ‬ ‫اﻻﻧﻜﻠﯿﺰﯾ‬ ‫ﺔ‬ ‫اﻟﺮواﯾ‬ ‫ﺗﺤﻠﯿﻞ‬ ‫ﻧﺘﺎﺋﺞ‬ ‫اﻟﻰ‬ ‫ﻧﻈﺮا‬ ‫ﻟﻜﻦ‬ Oliver Twist ‫ﺎﺋﺞ‬ ‫اﻟﻨﺘ‬ ‫ﺖ‬ ‫أﺛﺒﺘ‬ ‫ﺚ‬ ‫ﺣﯿ‬ ‫ﺖ‬ ‫ﺗﻮﺳ‬ ‫ﺮ‬ ‫اوﻟﻔ‬ ‫ﻧﻈﺮﯾﺔ‬ ‫وان‬ ‫ﻗﯿﻤﺔ‬ ‫ﻟﮭﺎ‬ ‫ﻟﯿﺲ‬ ‫اﻻﺧﺘﻼﻓﺎت‬ ‫ھﺬه‬ ‫ان‬ Lakoff ‫وﻣﻘﺪﻗﺔ‬ ‫دﻗﯿﻘﺔ‬ ‫ﻏﯿﺮ‬. Abstract This research was intended to determine whether men and women were different with respect the use intensifiers hedges...