Analysis of the socio-cultural words in EFL learns' written corpra : a corpus-based approach

الملخص EN

The research is a contrastive pragma linguistic analysis of two essays.

the first essay is the ritual concepts of Eid-al fatter in Islamic world while the second essay talks about the traditional ceremonies of marriage in Iraq.

the analysis is based on Coulthard’s model (1989) that emphasizes that communicative competence with linguistic competence should combine with socio-competence to achieve successful communication.

the underlying general aim of this work is to find out whether or not specific selected vocabularies found in these essays share certain common cross linguistic and pragmatic features with English version.