Domestic animals in English and Iraqi rural proverbs : a pragmastylistic study
Other Title(s)
الحيوانات الأليفة في الأمثال الإنكليزية و الأمثال العراقية الريفية : دراسة أسلوبية تداولية
Author
al-Janabi, Mahdi Khalaf Husayn
Source
Journal of the College of Languages
Issue
Vol. 2020, Issue 41 (31 Jan. 2020), pp.1-26, 26 p.
Publisher
University of Baghdad College of Languages
Publication Date
2020-01-31
Country of Publication
Iraq
No. of Pages
26
Main Subjects
Topics
Abstract EN
Proverbs gain their importance not only from the fact that they represent a cultural record of the people of every nation, but they reveal the way they use language and how they exploit their environments as a good source of inspiration to enrich that language.
Domestic animals, as part of every environment, play a major role in composing proverbs in every nation.
This study is an attempt to pragmastylistically analyse some selected English and Iraqi rural proverbs using domestic animals in their texts.
It limits itself to investigate certain stylistic and pragmatic devices such as: the type of sentences, their lengths, their content and grammatical words, the part of speech used, metaphor, repetition, the kinds of illocutionary forces, the types of the speech acts and the anaphoric references.
This study draws some conclusions from which are the following: -that the gap in culture does not affect the use of similar proverbs semantically and pragmatically, - the English sentence is longer than the Arabic sentence, and - the two types of proverbs use the same illocutionary forces.
American Psychological Association (APA)
al-Janabi, Mahdi Khalaf Husayn. 2020. Domestic animals in English and Iraqi rural proverbs : a pragmastylistic study. Journal of the College of Languages،Vol. 2020, no. 41, pp.1-26.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-940024
Modern Language Association (MLA)
al-Janabi, Mahdi Khalaf Husayn. Domestic animals in English and Iraqi rural proverbs : a pragmastylistic study. Journal of the College of Languages No. 41 (Jan. 2020), pp.1-26.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-940024
American Medical Association (AMA)
al-Janabi, Mahdi Khalaf Husayn. Domestic animals in English and Iraqi rural proverbs : a pragmastylistic study. Journal of the College of Languages. 2020. Vol. 2020, no. 41, pp.1-26.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-940024
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references : p. 24-25
Record ID
BIM-940024