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Al-Hindawi, Fareed Hameed; Kadhim, Basim Jubair; Raheem, Saeed Mahdi Abdul – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2020
This study is concerned with phonopragmatics, as a phenomenon that is based on phonological factors to convey the speaker's intentions in Husseini discourse. Husseini discourse is a genre which is mainly characterized by the use of eloquent religious styles. Specifically, the study aims to investigate the Husseini preachers' use of prosodic…
Descriptors: Clergy, Discourse Analysis, Phonology, Language Styles
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Hussein, Khalid Shakir; Ameer, May Ali Abdul – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2015
This paper represents an attempt to conduct a corpus-based stylistic analysis of two conceptual metaphors in "The Unbearable Lightness of Being," which is a novel written by Milan Kundera. "Soul-body" and "lightness-heaviness" metaphors are foregrounded as being central themes all through the novel. The way such…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Novels, Semantics, Figurative Language