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- Title
Diminutive Forms in English and Standard Arabic with Reference to Iraqi Arabic.
- Authors
Salman, Yusra Mohammed
- Abstract
The present paper deals with the exploration of diminutive formation as a sociolinguistic phenomenon; its description and analysis in both Standard English (SE) and Standard Arabic (SA), with special emphasis on its realization in Iraqi Arabic (IA). Diminutives occupy a significant role in describing people and things as regards personality, appearance, deeds, professions or attributes. In addition to their euphemistic and positive connotations based on the conception of intimacy, affection and endearment, diminutives can also bear dysphemistic negative connotations based on smallness, unimportance, sarcasm, contempt or inferiority. The main objective of this study is to investigate the status of diminutives from morphological-phonological and semantic-pragmatic perspectives, the contexts in which they occur, and the implications they have to facilitate language learning. As regards their formation, it has been found that English basically depends on suffixation and prefixation to form their diminutives, while SA depends entirely on infixation with minor derivation and modification. As for IA, it is mostly similar to SA, but with some modification and suffix addition (just like English) in certain cases. Concerning parts of speech subject to diminutive formation in IA, they are similar to those in SA and English.
- Subjects
ENGLISH language usage; ENGLISH language; PARTS of speech; PHONOLOGICAL encoding; IRAQIS; SUFFIXES &; prefixes (Grammar); SHAME
- Publication
Journal of Surra Man Raa, 2023, Vol 19, Issue 75, Part 1, p5
- ISSN
1813-1735
- Publication type
Article