A socio-pragma linguistic study of Najafi Iraqi slang

الملخص EN

This study sheds the light on a socio-pragma linguistic study of slang in Najafi Iraqi society.

This group of young people use a variety of linguistic expressions that have no association with the standard language, however these expressions are evaluated by other people specially the older generations as being nonsensical or street words.

For the authority of this study it draws on real data conducted after a survey in the form of questionnaire.

After the data collection, the slang expressions are grouped according to their semantic meaning into (expressive, address oriented and (dis)agreement slang expressions).

In addition to that pragmatic meaning, the formation process of these words as well as the society attitude towards these expressions have been taken into consideration, arguing that the desire of expressing identity, uniqueness and building bonds are enough reasons to motivate the existence of the slang expressions.