The widespread use of the mobile phone service has greatly contributed to the proliferation of text messaging, particularly among young people. The main objective of this study is to examine the communicative functions of the text messaging of young Saudi university students. Thurlow's (2003) theoretical framework is used in this study. The study has a straightforward research question: What are the communicative functions of young Saudi students' text messaging? 750 text messages were collected from the participants. The data collected were coded based on their communicative functions. Five main categories of communicative functions emerged from the data, namely friendship maintenance, socialization, school collaboration, coordination, and exchange of information. The findings of the present study corroborate previous findings about communicative functions in text messaging.
The present study examines the use of the discourse marker maʕ nafsak in Saudi Spoken Arabic. Specifically, it explores the pragmatic functions of ma3 nafsak in the online conversations of young Saudis. The data, which were collected from 17 young Saudi students through user-diaries, consisted of 262 natural online conversations in which 132 cases of maʕ nafsak occurred. The data were analyzed with regard to the pragmatic functions of the discourse marker. The study reveals that maʕ nafsak serves 12 different pragmatic functions based on the context in which it is used. Furthermore, this study emphasizes the importance of the context in the interpretation of discourse markers. Future research is recommended in this study.
It is widely common to express thanking responses to thanks you receive for doing someone a favor. This study aims at studying thanking responses used by native speakers of Jordanian Arabic from a pragmatic perspective. The data of this study was collected through natural observation of the participants in real-life situations by the researcher and two other volunteers. A total number of 436 expressions were identified as thanking responses in the data, which were classified based on Chung's classification of thanking responses. The study reveals that acceptance is the most frequent type of thanking responses, followed by denial. On the other hand, non-verbal gestures and no response were the least common types among the participants. Reciprocity was the fourth most frequent type preceded by comments, which occupied the third place. As far as the length of the thanking response is concerned, the study shows that the participants used simple and combined types of responses. The study provides some recommendations for future research.
This study investigates the influence of translation from English on the Arabic language. Specifically, it attempts to study how the translation of English auxiliary verbs influences the syntactic structure of the Arabic sentence and how the English predicating structure affects that of Arabic. This study is qualitative in nature. The data of this study were based on the language of electronic journalism in Jordan as a model. A sample from two popular news agencies in the Jordanian electronic media was chosen. The study reveals that the translation of English auxiliary verbs has influenced the syntactic structure of the Arabic sentence. Particularly, the study indicates that the influence of the English auxiliary verb on Arabic caused the passive form to die out from the actual use of the Arabic language. The study also reveals a change in the predicating structure of the Arabic sentence. Moreover, the study shows a change in the deictic indication of some of the demonstratives used in Arabic sentence structures.
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