Journal of Tikrit University for Humanities

This paper deals with the basics, levels, and various definitions of Politeness. The concept of politeness has always been the device through which the speaker commits himself/herself to the truth in his/her declaration and in confirming his/her speech. To be polite is to perform a complex speech act that is both an assertion and a conditional promise. It explains the concept of politeness in different context and also how these countries deal with politeness. Beside its applicability on Charles Dickens's novel "A tale of two cities" we have extracted the quotations which contains a sense of politeness and the maxims that Charles Dickens used in this novel. The study concludes that both the benefit and cost of fulfilling the politeness act is linked to the hearer letting the speaker have no role to do but to mediate between the rewarder and the rewarded people. Moreover, in every day communications and particularly in commercial business politeness is commonly attained by two participants (the speaker and the hearer), while in other texts, the speech act of politeness is happily performed by the existence of three participants (the writer, the speakers, the mediators and the hearers.

This paper differentiates as a first step between the terms sexism, gender, and sexuality. It deals with the sexist language used by Oscar Wilde in writing his famous novel The Picture of Dorian Gray. This literary work is analysed according to Sara Mills model suggested in her book Sexism and Language. This model falls into three levels: Overt sexism, Indirect sexism, and Discourse analysis level. Only two of these levels have been adopted in the present paper that are: Overt sexism level and Discourse analysis level

A sample of sixty- four eleventh grade male students has been purposively chosen from Al-Tuz city at ,Salah Al-Deen Governorate in the scholastic year (2017-2018) and equally distributed into experimental and control groups. The experimental group is taught writing by using the interactive writing strategy, while the control group is taught by using the traditional method, i.e. without using the interactive writing strategy for a period of three months. An achievement pre-posttest and a questionnaire have been constructed and administrated to the involved sample of the study.
The collected data have been analyzed statistically. The obtained result are as follows: There is a significant difference between the mean scores of the experimental group in the pretest and that in the posttest of the writing skill, and in favour of the posttest. There is no significant difference between the mean scores of the control group in the pretest and that in the posttest of the writing skill.There is a significant difference between the mean scores of the experimental group and that of the control group in the posttest, and in favour of the experimental group.There is a significant difference between the mean scores of the experimental group in the pre application and that in the post application of the questionnaire, and in favour of the post application. There is no significant difference between the mean scores of the control group in the pre application and that in the post application of the questionnaire, and in favour of the post application.There is a significant difference between the mean scores of the experimental group and that of the control group in the post application of the questionnaire, and in favour of the experimental group.