The present study aims at proving that yalla ‘hurry’ is a discourse marker in Jordanian Spoken Arabic (henceforth, JSA). It also investigates the textual functions of different contexts. data consisted 104 scenarios, including JSA yalla. researchers relied mainly on observation to collect needed for study. A panel four raters, who were professors linguistics, tested validity data. Moreover, gro...

The present study tries to investigate linguistically optimism in English and Arabic religious discourses. language of discourse is rich be examined by the researchers. Optimism carried out different pragmatic aspects. aims at identifying various strategies which conveyed through eclectic model adopted analyse data. It consists Searle’s (1969) speech act theory, Grice’s (1975) conversational im...

This paper presents the DATOOL, a graphical tool for annotating conversations consisting of short messages (i.e., tweets), and the results we obtain in using it to annotate tweets for Darija, an historically unwritten Arabic dialect spoken by millions but not taught in schools and lacking standardization and linguistic resources. With the DATOOL, a native-Darija speaker annotated hundreds of mi...

straightforward indexes of identity. This lacks analytic validity but reveals the linguistic ideologies upon which the politics of nationalism often turn (Bauman and Briggs 2003). Following Stewart (2001), we should be cautious of modern notions that linguistic form (e.g., Bengali discourse full of Sanskritor Perso-Arabic-derived words) directly reflects an author’s politico-religious stance or...

The present study examines through critical discourse analysis the practice of masking bride's name on Jordanian Muslim wedding invitation cards. Previous research has focused generic structure all components cards, and was a minor matter in these studies. Most studies referred to reason for this as either due people's religious (Islamic) beliefs or social norms. An electronic questionnaire use...

This study examines the nature of the discourse of advertising. The focus is on consumer advertising, which is directed towards the promotion of some product or service to the general public. The study, however, is not meant to exhaust all the aspects of this particular discourse, or present an answer to all the problems it poses. Rather, it aims at uncovering the basic elements of the most per...

Within the Relevance-based approach, discourse connectives such as but and so are linguistic expressions that encode a procedural meaning (i.e., instructions) which guides the addressee to derive the intended interpretation of a discourse segment (a phrase, a clause, or a sentence) based on context derived from the previous one (Blakemore 87, 1992, 2002; Blass 1990; Sperber and Wilson 1995). Th...

Through illustrative examples between Arabic and English, this paper demonstrates the relevance of phonological morphological features to translation activity. Firstly, it shows how come fore in poetry translation, which revolves around capturing prosody TL sanction discourse genre. Phonological may also play a key role translating remodeling discourse, making ideological moves by translator’s ...

This article presents the author's methodology for analyzing directive speech acts in English and Arabic academic discourse, developed during writing of dissertation research. The purpose is to describe confirm effectiveness within framework two discourses. In addition substantiating choice research methods respondent groups, a written discursive test with situational examples on basis classifi...