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Ibraheem, Sura Dhiaa; Abbas, Nawal Fadhil – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2016
Linguistically speaking, the concept of humor, which seems to be vast for people, has specific dimensions by which it is generated including: puns, irony, sarcasm, wittiness, and contrastive utterances in relation to the speakers of those utterances. It is about how the extra linguistics elements dominate the situation and the delivery of humor.…
Descriptors: Pragmatics, Humor, Language Usage, Qualitative Research
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Btoosh, Mousa A. – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2014
Perhaps rarely is there any piece of Pre-Islamic Arabic literature where color features more strongly and less naturally than in Antara's poetry. Therefore, the intended message of color in Antara's poetry is adequately understood inasmuch as the pragmatic implicatures of color are worked out. Evidence in literature explicitly attributes Antara's…
Descriptors: Color, Poetry, Figurative Language, Pragmatics
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Monsefi, Roya; Mahadi, Tengku Sepora Tengku – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2016
Within the endless stream of information available on the news media market, news headline language is characterised by several linguistic, pragmatic, rhetorical and functional features that distinguish it from other varieties of language that are not specialised. In the present study, the rhetorical features of English news headlines, through…
Descriptors: Language Usage, News Reporting, Pragmatics, Rhetoric