Journal of Tikrit University for Humanities

Posters are one of the most effective tools for communicating ideas, thoughts, and plans. They come in a variety of shapes and sizes, with various goals and objectives. One example is the political posters, which are concerned with elections and seek to familiarize voters with candidates and their ideologies. Posters are designed to enhance the impact of candidates’ election programs (platforms, manifestos) in order to achieve their political aims. Politicians purposefully use various types of pragmatic elements in their election campaign posters in order to gain more votes by influencing voters. Furthermore, they rely on a variety of pragmatic means to express a wide range of speech acts. This study is concerned with investigating the Iraqi and American parliamentary election campaign posters pragmatically. The data is analyzed from pragmatic perspective .The data is taken from Iraqi parliamentary elections that are held in 2021, and American senate elections that are held in 2020. It applies Searle’s theory of speech acts (1979).

This paper is an attempt to study gossip in two English and Arabic Newspapers. It pragmatically tackles gossip in these mass media. Consequently, it attempts to achieve the following aims: (1) identifying how the speech act is performed in relation to media gossip. (2) Examining to what extent presupposition is revealing the intended meaning of media gossips. To fulfill the aims of this study, it is hypothesized that: (1) Pragmatic principles occur randomly in English and Arabic media gossip.(2) Speech act, presupposition are the major pragmatic components of gossip. (3) existential presupposition and the speech act of assertions are the most common pragmatic components in media gossip. To achieve the aims of this work and test its hypotheses, the following procedures are followed: (1) the relevant literature about gossip is reviewed. (2) The gossip columns (the data of the current work) in the two newspapers under investigation are analyzed by means of the model developed by this study. (3) Carrying out a contrastive analysis of the ways of expressing gossip in both languages.

In this research the notion of mood in both Arabic and English has been tackled . In English there are five types of mood: the indicative, the imperative, the interrogative, the conditional, and the subjunctive mood. Since ‘mood’ is related especially to syntax, five basic English grammatical notions: tense, aspect, mood, modality, and case are discussed to solve the ambiguity account the students in differentiating among these concepts. Arabic language has three basic moods in relation to the imperfect: the indicative, the subjunctive, and the jussive mood.

This research was conducted with attention to the examination of presuppositions in the journal articles published by non-native English writers’ case study Kurdish researchers. The study mainly intends to highlight the presupposition triggers, the nature of presupposition, and recognition of presupposition triggers in a particular presupposition in publications by Kurdish scholars. The significance of the thesis is to lead people to understand presuppositions in the writing language and to learn more about how presuppositions are triggered by native Kurdish writers. Students of linguistics may benefit from this research. The outcomes of the study are expected to be theoretically and practically helpful and relevant, especially for those specialized. The research focuses on publications by non-native English writers or authors from the Kurdistan region of Iraq. There is a plan to compile the journal text from 2000 to 2021. The researcher in this research relies on theories of presupposition triggers by Levinson. This paper intends to provide a comprehensive scrutiny of journal papers. A descriptive, yet qualitative study is thereby adopted for randomly selected articles by non-native English writers from Kurdish writers. During the data analysis of the 10 articles by non-native writers in relation to all thirteen categories of presupposition triggers, which have been identified in the Kurdish writers’ articles, a number of conclusions are reached. The most prominent finding is that definite description is the most presupposition trigger that is found. However, verbs of judging have the least appearance.