Discourse analysis and pragmatic meanings of ''Zift'' in the Daily Mosuli Arabic conversation

Abstract EN

The current study investigates the discourse analysis and pragmatic meanings of the word asphalt zift in the daily Mosuli conversation, based on a collection of natural occurring conversational data.

the data analyzed consisted of eight conversations which were translated and then transliterated into English.

discourse analysis was adopted as a model for the current study.

it is concluded that the word asphalt zift has many different pragmatic meanings based on the context and the situation in which it is used, such as high, bad, unsuitable, bad dealing, hopeless, uncomfortable, low and without respect and status .such meanings implicitly express : disapproval, complaint, a certain point of view, depression, hard, dissatisfaction, anger, despair, evaluating the performance of others and misfortune.