Research confirms that combining both texts and illustrations in teaching materials including textbooks, enhances learners’ achievements. However, many other educators, authors and textbooks’ analysts may not share this ...

Recent work on language and gender studies marks the shift away from explanations based on gender differences and simplistic generalisations to examine meaning and gender identities that are at work in various communities ...

The present paper is an application of a discourse-pragmatic oriented approach to Pinter’s drama. In this study, the theories of pragmatics and discourse analysis are applied to Pinter’s three plays: Trouble in the Works, ...

Following the aggressive attacks of September 11, 2001, the American Entertainment Industry produced a considerable number of television shows associating Arab Muslims with violence, backwardness, fanaticism, exoticism ...

This dissertation examines Ben Okri’s use of antonyms in his Booker prize novel, The Famished Road (1992) to show relationships between groups in Nigeria during the postcolonial era. A stylistic analysis of the novel ...

A discourse is a connected speech which contains sufficiently clear and specific cultural elements that tie it together into a unified whole. Thus, cohesion is the primary means to make a discourse coherent, or allow it ...

The new millennium witnesses the emergence of a burgeoning sub-genre of literature known as Arab Anglophone literature. This literature is pioneered by writers of Arab origins. Arab-American women writers in particular ...

People construct distinctive communities according to language variation which is tightly related to context. The present study on “Language Variation Students’ Slang and the Awareness of its Use: The case of First Year ...