Misan Journal of Academic Studies

This paper is an investigation of the notion expounded in the cognitive theory of metaphor (Lakoff and Johnson, 1980, Lakoff, 1993) that abstract conceptual domains are comprehended by means of metaphorical mappings from domains grounded directly in experience , specifically whether the abstract domain of thought in Iraqi Arabic obtains its relational structure from the more concrete domain of food and cooking . "Recent studies on metaphor have proved it to be an important language device that reflects the cognitive source of human thinking" ( I – Wen Sue, 2002, 589 ). Some everyday idiomatic and proverbial metaphorical expressions in Iraqi Arabic have been analyzed following the framework of the cognitive theory of metaphor. It appears that the abstract domain of thought in Iraqi Arabic is largely shaped by metaphorical mappings taken from the more concrete and experiential domain of cooking and food.

Literary texts are dealt with variously within various theoretical backgrounds
. The syntactic and semantic theories hinge on the study of verbal works of art as syntactic and semantic variations . The modern insights look into texts to explore their linguistic and aesthetic values ( see Mukarovsky, 1970 ; Halliday , 1970 ). The literary texts , to these theories , are of interrelated syntactic – semantic options . The linguists fundamentally concentrate on the sentence as the most significant unit of language . Therefore , these theories are rarely concerned with the communicative value of literary texts . The literary texts ; however , are not merely illustrations of the linguistic system .They are not merely sets of grammatical patterns . Rather , they are pieces of human experience, of communication . They reflect the verisimilitude of human life . In other words , the complexity of human nature and patterns of man are encoded into these artifacts as types of verbal communication . In this sense , the literary text is " a discourse " of one kind or another .
This paper proceeds on the hypothesis that the literary text is deeply oriented into the communicative practices of the participants. The participants interact in the context . The speech acts of the characters in Shakespeare's Hamlet will be approached in terms of the Speech – Act Theory . The scope of the paper will be limited to Act I , Scene I of the Shakespearean tragedy

In this paper considered generalization pF - planar mappings of affine-connected

spaces

An , An with a torsion – free affine connection of affinor structure F , with

F P1  0 .Finding general aspects of pF - planar mappings , these results generalize
obtained for geodesic,holomorphically projective and special F & 2F -planar
mappings of Riemannian and Kählerian spaces by N.S.Sinyukov , J. Mikes , I.N.Kurbatova ,Raad J. K. Al lamy.

A new complexes of platinum (II) phthalocyanine and its derivatives have been prepared , These complexes have been characterized by IR , U.V-visible spectroscopy and molar conductivity measurements . The molar conductivities have been measured in dimethylsulfoxide (DMSO) , methylene chloride (CH2Cl2) and acetonitrile (CH2CN) solvents at room temperature at 10-3 M . Conductivity measurements for all prepared complexes shows that complees behave as weak electrolytes in DMSO , CH3CN and CH2Cl2 solvents in the range 10-5-10-3 M when plotting Λm vs. √c . The conductance data were analyzed by Krauss equation to determine the molar conductivity in infinitely dilution (Λo) and dissociation constant (Kd) to determine the stability of these complexes . The effect of variation in the two parameter (Λo) and (Kd) were fully investigated .

Two series of thermotropic liquid crystal dimmers were prepared and characterized, the first series: α,β-bis[4-(4-alkoxy benzoyloxy)-2-hydroxy benzylidene] diamino ethane copper(II)(CunO2On) .In these materials the length terminal alkyl chain is varied from 1 to 7 carbon atoms. The liquid crystalline properties of these materials have been investigated using differential scanning calorimeter and optical microscopy.This study revealed that these materials [nO2On
and CunO2On] exhibit nematic and
smectic A respectively.

An experimental investigation of single – basin solar still for distilled water production is presented. A solar still system of water-basin of 85x85 cm and 12cm height was designed and manufactured using available materials. A glass cover of 3 mm thickness fixed with inclination angle of in addition to mirrors fixed inside
the solar still on the inner sides wall. The water basin base was painted using black dye. The insulating material is a rock wall of about 3cm thickness was used to insulate the solar still body from out side. The results show that the distill water production rate depends on the ambient temperature, water-basin temperature and water – vapor temperature. Also, the single-basin solar stilled designed and manufactured can be used reliably to produce drinking water in small remote areas such as villages in southern Iraq

The present study aimed to investigate the effect of using Brainstorming technique in the achievement of the second intermediate school female students in mathematics and their attitudes towards it
The sample of the study consisted of 64 female students, were distributed randomly into tow groups ,the experimental group of 32 female students which has been taught with the Brainstorming technique and the other was the control group of 32 female students which has been taught with the traditional method in teaching.
The experiment lasted for six weeks, five lessons a week .It used the following