Abbas Sultan

A Critical Discourse Analysis of Arabic Internet Memes

Journal of Education College for Women, 2022

Abstract The present paper aims to analyse multimodal discourse i.e., Arabic internet memes acc... more Abstract
The present paper aims to analyse
multimodal discourse i.e., Arabic
internet memes according to van
Dijk's categories of ideological
discourse analysis. It is noteworthy
that no previous study tackled
Arabic internet memes from this
perspective. Moreover, Arabic
internet memes are filled with
implications that are to be analysed
critically. It also aims at finding out
how Arabic internet memes reflect
society, showing how ideologies are
represented in Arabic internet
memes, investigating the role of
context (i.e., background, mutual,
and historical knowledge) in
analysing data, and showing the way
cartoonists employ ideological
polarization. To accomplish these
aims, samples of two Arabic internet
memes are selected and analysed
according to van Dijk's ideological
square and categories of ideological
discourse analysis. The selected data
are taken from twitter and online
books and it tackles different social
and political issues. The findings of
this paper suggest that ideology has
a role in the representations of
events and discourses are
ideologically based; people tend to
positively represent their own
ideologies and practices and
negatively represent the ideologies
of other groups. In- and out- groups
(ideological polarization) is,
therefore, always evident in
multimodal discourse.

Word Order Variations in Shabaki

Word order types constitute the most wellestablished and frequently cited generalization in langu... more Word order types constitute the most wellestablished and frequently cited generalization in language typology. Basic or canonical word order tends to fall into two main types: SOV (about 48% of world languages) or SVO (about 41%). SOV is assumed to have been the predominant and unmarked word order in most of the oldest attested Indo-European languages, as well as in Iranian languages. This paper investigates the basic word order in Shabaki, a modern northwest language of the Indo-Iranian family spoken by the Shabaki minority in Iraq. This study also measures the word order variation and provides a typological description of this language. An examination of Shabaki data reveals that it follows SOV, OSV, SVO, VSO, OVS, and VOS word order patterns in mono-transitive sentences. The most frequent (predominant and unmarked) word order in declarative sentences in Shabaki is SOV where the initial position is occupied by a nominative noun phrase, but constituents can appear at any position, ...

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The Curation of Narration Sickness in Teaching Foreign Languages Conference on educational and research curricula: derivation, explication and rehabilitation

Measuring Rewritings in Translated Texts

Abbas H.J.Sultan ACTA LINGUISTICA28 A CONTRASTIVE STUDY OF METADISCOURSE IN ENGLISH AND ARABIC LINGUISTICS RESEARCH ARTICLES

Summary: The present paper analyzes metadiscourse expressions to under-stand the cultural differe... more Summary: The present paper analyzes metadiscourse expressions to under-stand the cultural differences between English and Arabic-speaking re-searchers. It uses a contrastive corpus of seventy discussion sections of lin-guistics research articles written by native speakers of English and Arabic. Within metadiscourse there appear to be two types: interactive and interac-tional. Chi-square tests are carried out to clarify the probable differences be-tween both groups. 1.

An Account of Clitics in Shabaki with Reference to Wackernagels Law

Global Journal of Human-Social Science Research, 2014

In this paper the behavior of clitics in Shabaki, a northwestern Indo-Iranian language spoken in ... more In this paper the behavior of clitics in Shabaki, a northwestern Indo-Iranian language spoken in Nineveh plains in Iraq, is discussed in detail with respect to forms and distributions and much more interestingly with respect to sensitivity to Wackernagel's Law. The paper also addresses clitic doubling, clustering and climbing which may be considered the peculiar defining features of Shabaki. They could be added to nouns, pronouns, verbs, prepositions and other clitics. Shabaki is a language with multiple cliticization and is surprisingly complicated with respect to this phenomenon. It has an intricate system of clitics which include subject pronominal clitics, object pronominal clitics (dative and accusative), possessive pronominal clitics, demonstrative pronoun clitics, ezafe clitics, diminutive clitics, additive clitics, aspectual clitics, tense clitics, copular clitics and negative clitics.

The Truth-Conditional Content of Evidentials in Shabaki

Kufa Review, 2016

Abstract. Evidentials are those means by which any alleged fact whose truth is investigated is es... more Abstract. Evidentials are those means by which any alleged fact whose truth is investigated is established or disproved. They indicate the source of evidence for the reality of a proposition. Languages differ greatly with respect to the sources of information they mark grammatically. In general, there are three subtypes of evidentiality: direct evidentiality, based on first-hand sensory evidence; indirect evidentiality, based on second- and third-hand evidence; and inferential evidentiality. The aim of this paper is to test the truth-conditional content of evidentials in Shabaki. The problem the paper will focus on concerns the interaction between evidentials and conditionals, negation, anaphors, tense and aspect.

Imagic Iconicity In Saad Surah:, A Morphophonemic Study

مجلة كلية التربية للبنات للعلوم الإنسانية

An Account Of Epistemic Modality In Shabaki

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Modularity Hypothesis: Presentation and Analysis

Dirasat: Human and Social Sciences

The project of this paper is to present a detailed description of modularity hypothesis, its vers... more The project of this paper is to present a detailed description of modularity hypothesis, its versions, its major schools of thought, its evolutionary aspects, and inherent problems. This hypothesis suggests that the human mind is compartmentalized into components or modules, which are specialized on certain types of information. This is the gist of strong version of modularity hypothesis, which is a direct hypothesis on mind and comprehension. The weak version is concerned with the descriptive aspects of discourse organization. The paper also reviews the major research studies relevant to the occurrence of pragmatic module. This has been supported by pieces of evidence from aphasia, right hemisphere damage, autism, Theory of Mind, and developmental pathology. With this survey of literature as a backdrop, we have suggested a bus-oriented modular system of mind from a semantic-pragmatic perspective.

An Account of Clitics in Shabaki with Reference to Wackernagel's Law

In this paper the behavior of clitics in Shabaki, a northwestern Indo-Iranian language spoken in ... more In this paper the behavior of clitics in Shabaki, a northwestern Indo-Iranian language spoken in Nineveh plains in Iraq, is discussed in detail with respect to forms and distributions and much more interestingly with respect to sensitivity to Wackernagel's Law. The paper also addresses clitic doubling, clustering and climbing which may be considered the peculiar defining features of Shabaki. They could be added to nouns, pronouns, verbs, prepositions and other clitics. Shabaki is a language with multiple cliticization and is surprisingly complicated with respect to this phenomenon. It has an intricate system of clitics which include subject pronominal clitics, object pronominal clitics (dative and accusative), possessive pronominal clitics, demonstrative pronoun clitics, ezafe clitics, diminutive clitics, additive clitics, aspectual clitics, tense clitics, copular clitics and negative clitics.

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An Account of Light Verb Constructions in Shabaki

Light verb constructions (also known as complex predicates or compound verbs) are multiword expre... more Light verb constructions (also known as complex predicates or compound verbs) are multiword expressions that combine light verbs with preverbal elements, such as nouns, adjectives, prepositions, adverbial words or phrases. This paper is an attempt to describe light verb constructions in the Indo-European language Shabaki and to scrutinize their morpho-syntactic features.

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Serial Verb Constructions in Shabaki

Serial verb construction (SVC) is a sequence of two or more verbs which act as a single but compl... more Serial verb construction (SVC) is a sequence of two or more verbs which act as a single but complex predicate. A sequence of verbs qualifies as an SVC if there is no marker of syntactic dependency between the components. This paper investigates the interface between their syntactic manifestations and semantic functions in Shabaki. The paper demonstrates the most common features of Shabaki serial verb constructions. 3 Structural properties of Shabaki SVCs 1. Monoclausality Verbs which form an SVC act together as a syntactic whole.

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causatives in Shabaki

This paper aims at investigating the causative continuum in Sha-baki. Based on the framework deve... more This paper aims at investigating the causative continuum in Sha-baki. Based on the framework developed by Mathieu-Reeves (2006), this study tries to test Haiman's iconicity principle. It has been observed that in Shabaki all common types of causatives exist and form a continuum. The lexical causatives are the most direct type because there the linguistic distance is least. The analytical causatives are the most indirect type because there the linguistic distance is greatest. 1. Introduction The term Shabaki itself is used to refer to both the people and the language of the Shabaki minority. Shabaki is an inflectional language with mainly but not exclusively SOV word order. It is a member of the Indo-Iranian language family of the Indo-European branch. It is a minority language existing in the Northern County of Mosul in Iraq. Like Turkish, Japanese or Finnish, Shabaki is an agglutinating language where morphemes have single semantic meanings and are simply connected linearly (yâ...

Propositional modality in Shabaki

DESCRIPTION propositional modality, Shabaki, epistemic modality, deontic modality, evidentiality,... more

A Modular Analysis of Arabic Journalistic Texts

There are two principal approaches to discourse analysis, the multi-dimensional approach and the ... more There are two principal approaches to discourse analysis, the multi-dimensional approach and the modular approach. The first is proposed by kerbrat-Orecchioni (1997) and it tries to combine eclectically the results and findings of studies on different dimensions of discourse organization in order to achieve a more comprehensive picture. The second approach is initiated by NØlke, Motsch and Roulet. Relying on NØlke and Motsch, Roulet (1997) suggests an approach to discourse analysis that rests on the modularity of mind hypothesis proposed by Jerry Fodor (1983). According to Fodor (ibid.), mind is a computational engine which is peripherally modular. The model put forward and modified repeatedly by Eddy Roulet (1997) is called the Geneva model of discourse analysis. Roulet (ibid.) claims that a modular approach constitutes an interesting and powerful methodology for describing the complexity of discourse organization. Different facets of discourse or talks-in-interaction are broken do...

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Reciprocal Pronouns in Shabaki

This paper presents an investigation of the reciprocal pronouns or 'reciprocal anaphors' ... more This paper presents an investigation of the reciprocal pronouns or 'reciprocal anaphors' in Shabaki. 1 It is generally intended to contribute to knowledge about linguistic reciprocity by investigating a hitherto un-cared-for and unwritten language on the one hand and an under-researched topic in the linguistic literature on the other hand. The research in this paper will focus on analyzing the meanings of reciprocal pronouns which permitted a greater understanding of the reciprocal situations in Shabaki. It also focuses on the effects of fusing prepositions into pronouns. Moreover, it investigates the dynamics of prepositions, valency, reflexivity and splitting. During the research process, some important contributions emerged, such as the grammatical functions of reciprocal pronouns, the dynamics of prepositions and the reciprocal situations of Shabaki pronouns. There is a remarkable variation in the meanings of reciprocal pronouns like eftàr (each other), neftàr (against e...

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A contrastive study of metadiscourse in English and Arabic linguistics research articles

Acta Linguistica, 2011

1. Introduction In the literature related to academic discourse, there are two perspectives. The ... more

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A contrastive study of metadiscourse in English and Arabic linguistics research articles

Acta Linguistica, 2011

1. Introduction In the literature related to academic discourse, there are two perspectives. The ... more

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