Volume 4 Issue 144
Published: 2024-01-01
Contents
English language
Factors Influencing Understanding English Breaking News by Iraqi University EFL Learners
Abdulqader Naeem, Juma’a Hussein
English news headlines require considerable attention to understand as they are characterized by a special style in their formulation. The study aims to identify the factors that hinder...
The Use of Metadiscourse Markers in MA Linguistics Theses: A Pragmatic Study
Juma’a Hussein, Marwan Abbas
It is now widely accepted that written texts embody the author and reader interaction. This interaction is intended to influence readers via various interpersonal and argumentative strategies....
Universal Pragmatic perspective of Humor in Standup Comedy Shows
Zainab Mohammed, Nawal Abbas
It is vital to learn the skill of communication in order to live a larger and happier life. The more we communicate, the less we suffer and the more we enjoy our environment. Humor is a method of...
Model Speaker Identity Effect on Iraqi EFL Learners’ Phonetic Convergence
Zainab Hardan, Ammar Al Abdely
Learners of a language often adapt their pronunciation in response to who they are speaking to in a linguistic phenomenon called phonetic convergence. This study examined Iraqi EFL learners...
The Legitimization of Gender Bias in Selected English Proverbs
Omer Muhsin, mohammed Ahmed
The study of language and gender reveals how language works as a symbolic tool to construct and preserve personal, social, and cultural aspects and identities, going beyond merely documenting the...
Biographical Elements in Henry James’s ‘‘The Middle Years’
Mahmood Gaddawi
The Middle Years is a short story for the American-born British writer Henry James (1843-1916). It depicts the suffering of a writer during his attempt to achieve his career. As it portrays the...
educational and psychological sciences
Investigating Facial Expressions as Strategies of Persuasion in Political TV. Interviews
Saja Yahya, Atyaf Ibrahim
Facial expressions are the nonverbal cues that people use to communicate. They are crucial aspects of interlocutors' daily conversation and interaction. This paper is based on the ideas that many...
The Impact of Listening Strategy Instruction on Listening Strategy Use
Anfal Yaseen, Khalid Alahmed
This paper explored the impact of listening strategy instruction on Iraqi EFL learners' listening strategy use. It is to be noted that just a few earlier studies have explored the use of these...
Psycholinguistic Reinforcement and Teaching English Language Speaking Skill for Academic Students in the Open Education College in Diyala
Wasan Ahmed, Ahmed Noori
The research is a study of reinforcing and teaching the speaking skill of English language psycho- linguistically for academic students who want to talk English fluently. Any language can be...
Iraqi EFL Learners' Recognition of Felicitous Speech Acts
Abid Ali
This study attempts to investigate the ability of Iraqi undergraduate fourth-year students' and M.A. students' recognition of felicitous speech acts. To achieve the aims of the study , a sample of...
Arabic language
ما وراء النحو: تأثير تقنية سيناريوهات الحياة الواقعية في تطوير تحصيل تلاميذ الصف الخامس الابتدائي في حروف الجر
Nuha Anber
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The Cultural stand of Anti-feminism in the Cartoon Film “The Knight and the Princess”: A Critical Discourse Analysis
Noor kazim, Nawal Abbas
The current study is mainly devoted to investigate the discursive strategies and linguistic tools chosen by the characters in the selected cartoon film, The Knight and the Princess(2019),to reveal...
Documenting Racism in Anna Deavere Smith’s Fires in the Mirror: Crown Heights, Brooklyn and Other Identities
Elaff Salih, Mohamad Hassan
This article investigates the documentation of racism in Anna Deavere Smiths Fires in the Mirror (1992), which is a one-person drama that talks about the Crown Heights riot, happened in Brooklyn in...
Otherizing and Harmonizing the Self in Brian Turner’s "Night in Blue"
Mohamad Hassan, Aisha Araf
The decision by the United States to go to war with Iraq in the early 2000s was a multifaceted and intricate matter. The Bush administration's primary justification revolved around their assertion...
White Creole Identity Crisis in Jean Rhys’ Wide Sargasso Sea
Israa Al Janabi
This study attempts to highlight the practices of marginalization and social exclusion of the colonizers and the local inhabitants alike on the white creole community in the Caribbean Islands. The...
Surveillance in Bina Shah’s Before She Sleeps
Hassan Hamid
This research investigates the concept of surveillance in Bina Shahs Before She Sleeps (2018). Surveillance is a disciplinary power that functions as a method adopted by the State to convert...
Article
A Pragmatic Approach to Identify Ideology
Manal Sadoon
The linguistic messages cannot be understood well without the investigation of their force and perlocutionary force. These terms are suggested by Austin (1962) to explain how the utterance can be...
The Investigation of Interpreters’ Stress during Simultaneous Interpretation from English into Arabic and Vice Versa
Mohammed Mohammed
This paper deals with simultaneous interpreting as a demanding cognitive task that involves various cognitive processes under severe time pressure; it is considered one of the most stressful tasks...
Conflict Avoidance in Political Televised Interactions: A Politeness-Translation Perspective
Ali Al-Baroodi, Anis Naoum
The study investigates conflict avoidance (as a translation strategy) in translating Arabic political televised debates into English. As conflict avoidance in political debates is one of the key...
Using Rhetorical Devices in Tourism Videos for Persuasive Purposes
Wala’a Qasim, Huda Hattab
The current work tends to study persuasion from a rhetorical perspective as employed in tourism videos. It attempts to tackle the persuasion concept from a much wider and novel perspective by...
Investigating EFL University Professors' Perspectives on the Factors that Affect EFL Students' Listening Comprehension
Yaareb Hameed
Learning a language skill is governed by factors that positively and negatively affect students' learning performance. This study aims to investigate EFL University professors' perspectives on the...
