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البحث (1):
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عنوان البحث:
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Pragmatic Analysis of the Particle ʁadɪ in
Najdi Arabic
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تاريخ النشر:
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13/04/2016
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The ultimate goal of this paper is to
investigate the pragmatic use of the particle ʁadɪ in Najdi Arabic. To do
just this, both Grice’s Theory of Conversation and the Relevance Theory (RT)
are used. In addition to indicating the speaker’s personal certainty of
his/her utterance, ʁadɪ is assumed to encode the speaker’s lack of positive
evidence to confirm the propositional content of his/her utterance,
nonetheless. For Grice, ʁadɪ generates an implicature due to flouting the
maxim of Quality ‘Try to make your contribution one that is true’. As a
result, the hearer does not repose the speaker’s confidence of his/her
utterance. Differently, for RT, ʁadɪ manifests a procedural meaning. This
type of meaning guides the hearer not to rely heavily on the speaker’s own
certainty which is, in principle, driven by anecdotal (nor conclusive)
evidence. Additionally, this paper concludes that ʁadɪ fares better within
the general framework of RT which provides a more robust account of its
semantic import and pragmatic usage.
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البحث (2):
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عنوان البحث:
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A Relevance-Theoretical Account of Three
Discourse Markers in North Hail Arabic
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تاريخ النشر:
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15/06/2015
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The current study addressed the discourse
status and functions of three lexical items most frequently used in North
Hail Arabic: jamaar, maar and almuhim. It applied Schourup (1999)’s
characteristics of discourse markers: Connectivity, optionality, non-truthconditionality,
weak clause association, orality, initiality, optionality and
multi-categoriality, so as to check whether these lexical items are actually
discourse markers. In addition to confirming their status as discourse
markers, the study used one of the main tenets of the Relevance Theory,
effort-effect trade-off in order to figure out their actual cognitive
functions in discourse building and structuring. It followed that these
lexical items maximize the contextual effect of the speaker’s utterance where
they show up and minimise the processing effort needed form the part of the
hearer to interact properly with the speaker.
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البحث (3):
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عنوان البحث:
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A Minimalist-Based Approach to Phrasal Verb
Movement in North Hail Arabic
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تاريخ النشر:
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31/01/2016
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This research explores one less-investigated
though significant manifestation of verb movement in North Hail Arabic,
namely verb topicalization alongside its internal argument and any
accompanying adjunct. In adequate dialogical and pragmatic contexts, the
lexical verb (L-verb), the direct object (DO), and VP and vP adjoining
adjuncts appear to move to the Specifier position (Spec) of a dedicated Topic
Phrase in the left periphery in the sense of Rizzi (1997). This
quasi-holistic movement is labelled as Defective Predicate Topicalization
(DPT), where all predicate elements, apart from Tense, move overtly to Topic
Phrase. Linear order between the L-verb, the DO, and any accompanying
adjuncts is assumed, among others, to be evidence supporting this contention.
Furthermore, the study argues that DPT is syntactically licensed for its
phrasal-movement fashion. Hence, no violation of (head-related) locality
principles is involved.
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البحث (4):
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عنوان البحث:
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Documentation of Discourse-related Particles
in North Hail Arabic
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تاريخ النشر:
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07/12/2015
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The current research investigates a range of
discourse particles used in North Hail Arabic, a variety spoken in Saudi
Arabia. It delves into their pragmatic functions related to discourse.
Investigating 17 discourse particles, the current research argues that they
are associated with specific discourse/pragmatics functions:
speaker-positive, speaker-negative, evidentiality, and discourse coherence.
Additionally, the current research introduces a general syntactic analysis
for these particles, assuming that they are heads, associated with discourse
features, have their own functional projections and are base-generated in the
left periphery. It shows that these particles are different in terms of
whether they are able to be resumed by a pronominal clitic or not. For this,
the study attributes this behaviour to whether the given particle has a set
of Φ-features (phi-features) or not. All in all, the current research is
meant to bring these particles to the fore, suggesting them as a rich area
for different linguistic domains (i.e., syntax, semantics, pragmatics, etc.).
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