Abbas Lutfi Hussein
Biographic Data
| ID | 8431485 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Abbas Lutfi Hussein |
| GIVEN NAMES | Abbas Lutfi |
| FAMILY NAME | Hussein |
| SIGNATURE | HUSSEIN A L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Mustansiriyah University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Socio-Cognitive Representation of Alienation Lamming’s In the Castle of my Skin
This paper adopts van Dijk's socio-critical discourse analytical framework to interrogate the theme of alienation in Lamming's novel In the Castle of my Skin.Although the theme of alienation has been widely disscussed in literary and postcolonial studies ,there remains a lack of integrated approaches combing alienation and sociocognitive analysis , therefore in the field of critical discourse analysis ,scholars like van Dijk and van Leeuwen have …
A cognitive analysis of conceptual metaphors in Nizar Qabani’s poem “message from under water
In the last four decades, a lot of cognitive researchers have grown interested in the cognitive analysis of language in connection to mental and cognitive processes. The current paper aims to conduct the ways in which Nizar Qabani employs conceptual metaphors of love and pain in A Message from under the water poem. Nizar Qabani is a Syrian poet; he is considered one of the most prominent contemporary figures in the Arab cultures. The paper analyt…
The nexus of religion and politics in the discourses of English Faith-based party
This study aims to present the background knowledge of linguaculture and express the effect of religious culture on verbal communication used by politicians in English countries within the broad context of political behavior and communication. To achieve this aim, an eclectic model, drawing on Risagers' (2012), was developed as an analytical framework to analyze the two selected texts of the English religion-based political party 'The Christian H…
الدعاء مخ العبادة
The dual nature of supplication as both expressive and directive speech acts presents a challenge in understanding how religious language conveys feelings like trust, hope, and confidence while invoking a higher authority. Thus, this paper attempts to investigate the pragmatic behavior of supplication in Arabic Prophetic hadiths. Based on Searle’ (1969, 1979) model of speech acts, 25 Prophetic hadiths are selected to be pragmatically analyzed in …
Bais or Balance? Multimodal discourse Analysis of British media representation of Russain – Ukraine war
This study investigates how the British media covers the Russia-Ukraine conflict, utilizing a Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis (MCDA) framework. Considering both verbal and visual components in news reportage, it intends to identify whether the reporting is balanced or biased. Built on the work of Wodak (2006), Kress and van Leeuwen (2006), Machin (2013) and Wong (2019), the paper surveys how text, graphics, and design are utilized to form …
Women Discrimination in Lynn Nottage’s By the Way, Meet Vera Stark
The current research paper aims to investigate and reveal the implicit ideologies that are used by Lynn Nottage in her play By the Way, Meet Vera Stark to represent her patriarchal society. The study exhibits critical discourse analysis (CDA) of the representation of women discrimination within Nottag’s play By the Way, Meet Vera Stark. The study delves into the complex construction of American societal stratification, centering on the discursive…
Iraqi EFL University Students’ Strategies of Producing Invitation
Invitations are social activities that usually occur among individuals (and particularly among friends) in everyday life, utilized to keep rapport, increase social solidarity, and maintain good relationships. However, people use various types of pragmatic and linguistic strategies to yield invitations. Thus, this paper aims to detect Iraqi University students’ ability to use the illocutionary act of invitation. Fifty Iraqi EFL 4th year students o…
Strategies followed by Iraqi EFL learners in recognizing the illocutionary act of invitation
Invitations are social activities that usually occur among individuals (and particularly among friends) in everyday life, utilized to keep rapport, to increase social solidarity and to maintain good relationships among people. However, people use various types of pragmatic and linguistic strategies to recognize invitations. Thus, this paper aims to detect Iraqi University students’ ability to recognize and to distinguish invitation from other rel…
Stylistic analysis of sarcasm in some selected extracts of schoolteacher in Morrison’s beloved
Sarcasm is a manipulative concept which can be utilized in different forms and different senses to express different intentions. Toni Morrison makes full use of linguistic and figurative tools to express her sarcastic events and situations. Thus, this paper investigates the stylistic use of sarcasm in some selected extracts of Schoolteacher in Morrison’s ‘Beloved’ , focusing on the purposes behind the use of sarcasm in this novel. Five extracts a…
Speaking Loudly
Critical Stylistics is concerned with the study of ideology in literary and political texts. It draws on certain criteria from the stylistic analysis. Thus, this paper attempts to apply Jeffries’ (2010) model of critical stylistics to soliloquies of Shakespearean Hamlet. It specifically aims at analyzing the two soliloquies made by the character Hamlet using only three textual-conceptual functions of the model: Representing Actions/ Events/ State…
Linguo-Stylistic Analysis of Sarcasm in American Granddaughter
Sarcasm is a manipulative concept that can be utilized in different forms and different senses to express different intentions. Inaam Kachachi makes full use of linguistic and figurative tools to express her sarcastic events and situations. Thus, this paper investigates the linguo-stylistic use of sarcasm in Kachachi’s ‘الحفيدة الامريكية’ (American Granddaughter), focusing on the purposes behind the use of sarcasm in this novel. Twenty extracts h…
Legitimizing Racism
Nowadays, the concept of racism has been frequently used by people and more specifically by political figures as a social phenomenon that has been utilized as a"legitimising ideological tool". It is exploited to persecute an addressed group/s and to dispute them access to some social, cultural and political rights (Miles, 1993: 28). Moreover, it has been considered as “a special variety of ‘heterophobia’, bearing a co-hyponymical relation to ‘ant…
Implicit meaning in Surat Yusuf of the Glorious Quran
Implicit meaning is a sort of meaning that is not overtly identified in a communication. This definition gives rise to a problem of fragmentation. Thus, this paper aims to delimit the range of implicit meaning and to shed light on its types and devices utilized to express this meaning, detecting the functions behind the hidden meaning. Applying Larson’s (1984) and Verschueren’s (1999) approaches, eight extracts are selected from Surat Yusuf to be…
Stylistic hallmarks of Obama's (2009) and Al-Maliki's (2006) inaugural addresses
In inaugural addresses, presidents (e.g. Obama and Al-Maliki) intend to convey their intentions and plans and to announce their new political strategies in order to convince the public to accept and support them. To attain such purposes, they have often recourse to shrewd selection of linguistic elements and manipulation of rhetorical devices. Thus, this paper aims to investigate the stylistic hallmarks utilized in Obama's and Al-Maliki's Inaugur…
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Stylistic analysis of sarcasm in some selected extracts of schoolteacher in Morrison’s beloved
Sarcasm is a manipulative concept which can be utilized in different forms and different senses to express different intentions. Toni Morrison makes full use of linguistic and figurative tools to express her sarcastic events and situations. Thus, this paper investigates the stylistic use of sarcasm in some selected extracts of Schoolteacher in Morrison’s ‘Beloved’ , focusing on the purposes behind the use of sarcasm in this novel. Five extracts a…
Speaking Loudly
Critical Stylistics is concerned with the study of ideology in literary and political texts. It draws on certain criteria from the stylistic analysis. Thus, this paper attempts to apply Jeffries’ (2010) model of critical stylistics to soliloquies of Shakespearean Hamlet. It specifically aims at analyzing the two soliloquies made by the character Hamlet using only three textual-conceptual functions of the model: Representing Actions/ Events/ State…
Linguo-Stylistic Analysis of Sarcasm in American Granddaughter
Sarcasm is a manipulative concept that can be utilized in different forms and different senses to express different intentions. Inaam Kachachi makes full use of linguistic and figurative tools to express her sarcastic events and situations. Thus, this paper investigates the linguo-stylistic use of sarcasm in Kachachi’s ‘الحفيدة الامريكية’ (American Granddaughter), focusing on the purposes behind the use of sarcasm in this novel. Twenty extracts h…
Legitimizing Racism
Nowadays, the concept of racism has been frequently used by people and more specifically by political figures as a social phenomenon that has been utilized as a"legitimising ideological tool". It is exploited to persecute an addressed group/s and to dispute them access to some social, cultural and political rights (Miles, 1993: 28). Moreover, it has been considered as “a special variety of ‘heterophobia’, bearing a co-hyponymical relation to ‘ant…
Implicit meaning in Surat Yusuf of the Glorious Quran
Implicit meaning is a sort of meaning that is not overtly identified in a communication. This definition gives rise to a problem of fragmentation. Thus, this paper aims to delimit the range of implicit meaning and to shed light on its types and devices utilized to express this meaning, detecting the functions behind the hidden meaning. Applying Larson’s (1984) and Verschueren’s (1999) approaches, eight extracts are selected from Surat Yusuf to be…
Stylistic hallmarks of Obama's (2009) and Al-Maliki's (2006) inaugural addresses
In inaugural addresses, presidents (e.g. Obama and Al-Maliki) intend to convey their intentions and plans and to announce their new political strategies in order to convince the public to accept and support them. To attain such purposes, they have often recourse to shrewd selection of linguistic elements and manipulation of rhetorical devices. Thus, this paper aims to investigate the stylistic hallmarks utilized in Obama's and Al-Maliki's Inaugur…
Iraqi EFL University Students’ Strategies of Producing Invitation
Invitations are social activities that usually occur among individuals (and particularly among friends) in everyday life, utilized to keep rapport, increase social solidarity, and maintain good relationships. However, people use various types of pragmatic and linguistic strategies to yield invitations. Thus, this paper aims to detect Iraqi University students’ ability to use the illocutionary act of invitation. Fifty Iraqi EFL 4th year students o…
Strategies followed by Iraqi EFL learners in recognizing the illocutionary act of invitation
Invitations are social activities that usually occur among individuals (and particularly among friends) in everyday life, utilized to keep rapport, to increase social solidarity and to maintain good relationships among people. However, people use various types of pragmatic and linguistic strategies to recognize invitations. Thus, this paper aims to detect Iraqi University students’ ability to recognize and to distinguish invitation from other rel…
Women Discrimination in Lynn Nottage’s By the Way, Meet Vera Stark
The current research paper aims to investigate and reveal the implicit ideologies that are used by Lynn Nottage in her play By the Way, Meet Vera Stark to represent her patriarchal society. The study exhibits critical discourse analysis (CDA) of the representation of women discrimination within Nottag’s play By the Way, Meet Vera Stark. The study delves into the complex construction of American societal stratification, centering on the discursive…
The nexus of religion and politics in the discourses of English Faith-based party
This study aims to present the background knowledge of linguaculture and express the effect of religious culture on verbal communication used by politicians in English countries within the broad context of political behavior and communication. To achieve this aim, an eclectic model, drawing on Risagers' (2012), was developed as an analytical framework to analyze the two selected texts of the English religion-based political party 'The Christian H…
الدعاء مخ العبادة
The dual nature of supplication as both expressive and directive speech acts presents a challenge in understanding how religious language conveys feelings like trust, hope, and confidence while invoking a higher authority. Thus, this paper attempts to investigate the pragmatic behavior of supplication in Arabic Prophetic hadiths. Based on Searle’ (1969, 1979) model of speech acts, 25 Prophetic hadiths are selected to be pragmatically analyzed in …
Bais or Balance? Multimodal discourse Analysis of British media representation of Russain – Ukraine war
This study investigates how the British media covers the Russia-Ukraine conflict, utilizing a Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis (MCDA) framework. Considering both verbal and visual components in news reportage, it intends to identify whether the reporting is balanced or biased. Built on the work of Wodak (2006), Kress and van Leeuwen (2006), Machin (2013) and Wong (2019), the paper surveys how text, graphics, and design are utilized to form …
A cognitive analysis of conceptual metaphors in Nizar Qabani’s poem “message from under water
In the last four decades, a lot of cognitive researchers have grown interested in the cognitive analysis of language in connection to mental and cognitive processes. The current paper aims to conduct the ways in which Nizar Qabani employs conceptual metaphors of love and pain in A Message from under the water poem. Nizar Qabani is a Syrian poet; he is considered one of the most prominent contemporary figures in the Arab cultures. The paper analyt…
Socio-Cognitive Representation of Alienation Lamming’s In the Castle of my Skin
This paper adopts van Dijk's socio-critical discourse analytical framework to interrogate the theme of alienation in Lamming's novel In the Castle of my Skin.Although the theme of alienation has been widely disscussed in literary and postcolonial studies ,there remains a lack of integrated approaches combing alienation and sociocognitive analysis , therefore in the field of critical discourse analysis ,scholars like van Dijk and van Leeuwen have …
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