Despite scholars’ attention on the typology of modality as a linguistic phenomenon, yet the use of modality across varieties of English is not well visible in communication-based researches that take semantics, pragmatics and discourse issues as the objects for their investigation. The paper generates its data from six M. A. dissertations from Nigerian University and equal number of the M. A. dissertations from Iraqi University to qualitatively and quantitatively investigate the contextual use of modality within the pragmatic perspective. The data analysis reveals that modality such as usuality, potentiality, necessity, probability and obligation in the dissertations encapsulates interpersonal and authorial voice in which the meaning of a clause is qualified to reflect the writer’s judgment of the likelihood of the proposition it expresses being true. The study findings also show the divergent use of modality to indicate certainty, possibility, probability and evidence and the nature of their illocutionary forces in the academic writings through verb modals and lexically modalized presentations in the MA. Dissertations that form the data of the study.
اصبحت اللغة الانكليزية اللغة العالمية الأوسع انتشاراً في العالم ، في حين لم تكن هذه اللغة معروفة جيداً خارج بريطانيا حتى النصف الثاني من القرن الثامن عشر(1)، ورافق هيمنة الانكليزية تسلل وتغلغل للقيم وطريقة الحياة الامريكية بجميع دلالاتها الصارخة .
وقد استغلت اللغة الانكليزية جو العولمة الاقتصادية والثقافية والتطورات التقنية في مجال الاتصالات وخاصة شبكة الانترنيت افضل استغلال لتأكيد هيمنتها وتو
... Show MoreABSTRACT This paper has a three-pronged objective: offering a unitary set of semantic distinctive features to the analysis of nominal “hatred synonyms” in the lexicon of both English and Standard Arabic (SA), applying it procedurally to test its scope of functionality crosslinguistically, and singling out the closest noun synonymous equivalents among the membership of the two sets in this particular lexical semantic field in both languages. The componential analysis and the matching procedures carried have been functional in identifying ten totally matching equivalents (i.e. at 55.6%), and eight partially matching ones (i.e. at %44.4%). This result shows that while total matching equivalences do exist in the translation of certain Eng
... Show Moreالحمد لله رب العالمين والصلاة والسلام على نبينا محمد صلى الله عليه وآله وصحبه وسلم اجمين.
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فان موضوع هذا البحث هو (اسرار المبالغة في صيغ المفردات في معجم العين) ، وقد جعلت موضوع المبالغة في معجم العين ؛ لان كتاب العين يعد باكورة التأليف المعجمي عند العرب ، والطريقة التي فتقها الخليل بن احمد الفراهيدي في هذا المعجم عند العرب عُدت من اكبر المدارس المعجمية في مضمار التأليف ال
... Show Moreبرز في بداية القرن الماضي اهتمام الباحثين في بعض دول العالم بجمع ودراسة الارث الموسيقي لشعوبهم من خلال ما اكتشفوه من دور لهذه الدراسات في تحديد الهوية الموسيقية لمبتكري ومؤدي ومتلقي هذا الارث .وقد قام كثير من الدول العالم وخصوصا في اوربا وامريكا بانشاء مراكز بحثية خاصة تعنى بجمع وحفظ وتصنيف وتحليل مواد ارثهم الشعبي ومن ثم تحديد سماته وخصائصه الموسيقيةاما في العراق وبرغم تعدد وتنوع اشكال التراث والموروث ال
... Show MoreWe used to think of grammar as the bones of the language and vocabulary as the flesh to be added given that language consisted largely of life generated chunks of lexis. This “skeleton image” has been proverbially used to refer to that central feature of lexis named collocation- an idea that for the first 15 years of language study and analysis gave a moment‟s thought to English classroom material and methodology.
The work of John Sinclair, Dave Willis, Ron Carter, Michael McCarthy, Michael Lewis, and many others have all contributed to the way teachers today approach the area of lexis and what it means in the teaching/learning process of the language. This also seems to have incorporated lexical ideas into the teaching mechanis
The study employs Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) to analyze how technological discourses are influenced by AI-generate d English texts. The research marries Fairclough’s three-dimensional discourse analysis, Van Dijk’s socio-cognitive approach, and Corpus-Assisted Discourse Studies (CADS) in the use of mixed-methods research, integrating primarily qualitative analysis with quantitative corpus-based data, to perform a thorough analysis of twenty AI-produced English texts. The findings identify the sophisticated linguistic mechanisms through which AI language employs modality, nominalization, passive voice, and interdiscursive blending to normalize and legitimize dominant contemporary ideologies. These mechanisms serve to legitimize te
... Show MoreThis study deals with strategic maneuvering in advertisement from a pragmatic point of view found in some commercial advertisements in order to investigate and analyze the pragmatic devices that are used in the strategic maneuvering and stages. The study attempts to shed light on the most fuzzy areas in advertisements that is probably how the language of advertisements employed by advertisers to affect consumers positively. The primary goal of strategic maneuvering is to discover how the pragmatic devices have persuasive techniques that are used to gain a competitive advantage and more sales. This study is a contribution to the field of research in the language used in advertising. In this research, the effectiveness of strategic man
... Show MoreLuffa aegyptiaca is a plant of multi-purpose importance whose usefulness cuts across virtually all areas of life. This study has characterized L. aegyptiaca in Lagos state and determined the mineral, proximate, phytochemical as well as the heavy metal accumulation potential. Samples were collected from the 20 Local Government Areas (LGAs) in Lagos state at 2 samples per location. Genetic similarity and intra-specific variation in 40 samples of L. aegyptiaca were determined using 3 Random Amplified Polymorphic DNA (RAPD) primers which yielded a total of 42 markers of which 25 was polymorphic. The maximum number of bands (14) was produced by OPC4 while the minimum (7) were produced by OPAF20. Percenta
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DBN Rashid, Rimak International Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2020