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...

DOI: 10.33899/jeh.2024.183109

Pages: 55-90
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....

DOI: 10.33899/jeh.2024.183110

Pages: 91-116
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...

DOI: 10.33899/jeh.2024.183116

Pages: 265-292
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...

DOI: 10.33899/jeh.2024.183117

Pages: 293-324
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...

DOI: 10.33899/jeh.2024.183123

Pages: 463-488
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...

DOI: 10.33899/jeh.2024.183124

Pages: 489-506
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...

DOI: 10.33899/jeh.2024.183111

Pages: 117-170
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...

DOI: 10.33899/jeh.2024.183118

Pages: 325-352
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...

DOI: 10.33899/jeh.2024.183119

Pages: 353-370
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...

DOI: 10.33899/jeh.2024.183122

Pages: 437-462
Arabic language
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...

DOI: 10.33899/jeh.2024.183104

Pages: 19-44
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...

DOI: 10.33899/jeh.2024.183105

Pages: 45-54
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...

DOI: 10.33899/jeh.2024.183112

Pages: 171-184
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...

DOI: 10.33899/jeh.2024.183115

Pages: 239-264
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...

DOI: 10.33899/jeh.2024.183120

Pages: 371-398
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...

DOI: 10.33899/jeh.2024.183113

Pages: 185-208
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...

DOI: 10.33899/jeh.2024.183114

Pages: 209-238
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...

DOI: 10.33899/jeh.2024.183121

Pages: 399-436
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...

DOI: 10.33899/jeh.2024.183125

Pages: 507-530
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...

DOI: 10.33899/jeh.2024.183126

Pages: 531-554