Nawal Fadhil Abbas is a professor at the Department of English Language, College of Education for Women, University of Baghdad. She got her Ph.D. in English Language and Linguistics from the Universiti Sains Malaysia in 2014. Her major is Pragmatics and Semantics. Her research interests include but are not limited to (Critical) Discourse Analysis, (Critical) Stylistics, and Corpus Linguistics.
Finished Ph.D. in English Language and Linguistics/Semantics and Pragmatics/University Sains Malaysia 2014. Title: Using (Im)Politeness Strategies to Achieve Social (Dis)Harmony: A Pragmatic Analysis of L. M. Montgomery’s Anne of Green Gables Finished M.A. in Language and Linguistics /Baghdad University/College of Education for Women/ Department of English 2002. Title: A Pragmatic Analysis of Selected Modern Short Stories Finished B.A in English Language/Baghdad University/College of Education for Women/ Department of English 1998.
Teaching assistant from 1998-2002. Teaching staff member from 2002- up to now. Lecturer in the Department of English/College of Education for Women/ University of Baghdad since 2002. Rapporteur of the higher studies in the Department of English/College of Education for Women/ University of Baghdad from 2002-2006. Rapporteur of the Department of English/College of Education for Women/ University of Baghdad from 2006-2009. Head of the Department of English/ College of Education for Women 2015-2018. Dean of the College of Education for Women 2018-19. Member of the Examining Committee, 2002-2009. Head of the Examining Committee in the Department of English, 2015-2018. Head of the scientific committee in the Department of English 2015-2018.
Member of the Postgraduate Studies Committee, 2015-2018. Member of the Scientific Committee. Member of the Proficiency Test Committee. Lecturer in many language courses in different ministries and institutions. Lecturer of English for the postgraduate studies in other departments /College of Education for Women/ University of Baghdad. Editorial board member in the Journal of the College of Education for Women, UOB, Iraq. Executive board member in the Arab Society of English Language Studies (ASELS), USA. Reviewer in the Arab World English Journal (AWEJ). Reviewer in the Journal of Ethnic and Cultural Studies and Journal of Language and Education. Reviewer in the College of Education Journal, University of Wasit, Iraq. Reviewer and editor in the Sage Open Journal indexed in Web of Science. Linguistic assessor in the Iraqi Journal of Market Research and Consumer Protection, University of Baghdad, Baghdad, Iraq. Linguistic assessor in Awtad Journal for Human Sciences, Iraqi Creators Union.
Pragmatics, Semantics, Stylistics, (Critical) Discourse Analysis, Corpus Studies
English Language and Linguistics
Teaching English Grammar in Use to First-year Students Teaching Academic Writing to Third-year Students Teaching Discourse Analysis to Postgraduate Students Teaching English to PhD students in the Department of Social Work
I supervised 22 MA and PhD students up to December 2023.
The present study aims to investigate the various request constructions used in Classical Arabic and Modern Arabic language by identifying the differences in their usage in these two different genres. Also, the study attempts to trace the cases of felicitous and infelicitous requests in the Arabic language. Methodologically, the current study employs a web-based corpus tool (Sketch Engine) to analyze different corpora: the first one is Classical Arabic, represented by King Saud University Corpus of Classical Arabic, while the second is The Arabic Web Corpus “arTenTen” representing Modern Arabic. To do so, the study relies on felicity conditions to qualitatively interpret the quantitative data, i.e., following a mixed mode method
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