Th e treatise De spiritu of the Corpus Aristotelicum deserves better treatment than it has received since W. Jaeger in his 1913 article rejected its authenticity and dated it one hundred years after Aristotle. In this paper the authors argue that De spiritu defends purely Aristotelian viewpoints against persons like Plato and Empedocles, who held respiration to be the most important vital proce...

A major focus of register research has been language variation in academic discourse. These studies describe patterns use spoken and written texts. Although there have numerous this type, most focused on registers English descriptions published (e.g. textbooks, articles, abstracts). Much less work caried out other languages or unpublished registers. This special issue presents five describing t...

This study examines the frequency and functions of code switching in informal conversations among Jordanian pilots, who have created their own jargon. It also explores most frequent English expressions that pilots switch to Arabic discourse. The eight aged between thirty fifty-five were tape-recorded three separate natural settings. data used for purpose finding out what pragmatic communicative...

Connectives are used as discourse markers by speakers of Mosuli Iraqi Arabic so that listeners will pay more attention during their utterances. The current study investigates the pragmatic functions connectives in Arabic, selected from seven comedy series presented Hassan Fashel. These contain commonly were investigated research. zee, kawee, dahiq, hasatta, and they assumed to have different co...

The current study aimed to explore the phenomenon of preposing in English and Arabic languages, identify its main salient characteristics functions. It also attempted address most frequent translation problems associated with this propose solutions such based on sound scientific theoretical grounds. Preposing refers advancing a sentence constituent initial position for rhetorical or structural ...