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- Title
Diminutives as Dysphemistic Forms with Reference to Iraqi Arabic.
- Authors
Mansoor, Mohammad Salman; Salman, Yusra Mohammed
- Abstract
This paper deals with the description and analysis of diminutiveness as a sociolinguistic phenomenon in both English and Standard Arabic (SA), with special emphasis on its realization in Iraqi Arabic (IA) from a dysphemistic perspective. 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, with special emphasis on dysphemistic connotations since most research has overshadowed this area. It has been found that English basically depends on suffixation and prefixation to form their diminutives, while SA and IA depend entirely on infixation with minor derivation and modification. As regards parts of speech subject to diminutive formation in IA, they are similar (with the exception of verbs) to those in SA and English.
- Subjects
PARTS of speech; ENGLISH language usage; IRAQIS; INTIMACY (Psychology); VERBS; PHONOLOGICAL encoding
- Publication
Journal of Surra Man Raa, 2021, Vol 17, Issue 66, p2021
- ISSN
1813-1735
- Publication type
Article