Papers by Adel Thamery
Metaphor study has been a main feature of literary study since ancient rhetoric. A number of appr... more Metaphor study has been a main feature of literary study since ancient rhetoric. A number of approaches to metaphor have been devised to answer questions about whether metaphors are ornamental or essential for meaning; whether metaphors are linguistic or psychological .Much work in cognitive science has demonstrated that metaphor is a basic pattern in the way that human mind works and that there is a basic distinction between linguistic expressions of metaphor and their underlying conceptual content .The present paper is an attempt to discuss a range of metaphors in Canto I of Keats' " The Fall of Hyperion " to the aim of identifying how full words can be taken as metaphorical by a number of readers .
مجلة آداب البصرة, 2017
This paper attempts to examine the translations of Abdullah Yousif Ali, Marmaduke Pickthall and J... more This paper attempts to examine the translations of Abdullah Yousif Ali, Marmaduke Pickthall and John Arberry of some homonymous verbs in some Quranic texts. In order to determine the meanings of the homonymous verbs, the exegete adopted in this paper is Al-Tabary. The model applied is '' Jackendoff's Conceptual Structures '', where each conceptual structure is analyzed into its conceptual categories. This paper aims to find which conceptual structures of the translated texts (TT) match the conceptual structure of the source texts (ST). The present paper concludes that not all the conceptual structures of the translated texts (TT) are in full correspondence with the conceptual structure of the source texts (ST).
The Role of Neuro-Linguistic Programming in Improving EFL Reading Comprehension, 2018
This study examines the influence of Neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) principles and techniques... more This study examines the influence of Neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) principles and techniques to enhanceEnglish language learners in reading comprehension at the university level in Basra. The study is applied in the University of Basra;125 students participated in the study. The students were divided into two groups; control and experimental groups. The research is comprised of a pre and post-tests used for both groups to detect the students' achievement in the experimental group after taking a two months reading comprehension course using NLP principles and techniques.The control group, on the other hand, was taught using traditional lessons.A paired-sample t-test for the experimental and control groups showed that teaching reading comprehension using NLP techniques has a significant positive effect on the experimental group as compared with the control group. These findings proved that using NLP principles and techniques in EFL teaching might help teachersteach reading comprehension more efficiently to EFL learners at the university level in Iraq. Taking these results into consideration, further scientific research about the various possible uses of NLP in EFL learning is recommended.
This paper attempts to examine the translations of Abdullah Yousif Ali, Marmaduke Pickthall and J... more This paper attempts to examine the translations of Abdullah Yousif Ali, Marmaduke Pickthall and John Arberry of some homonymous verbs in some Quranic texts. In order to determine the meanings of the homonymous verbs, the exegete adopted in this paper is Al-Tabary. The model applied is '' Jackendoff's Conceptual Structures '', where each conceptual structure is analyzed into its conceptual categories. This paper aims to find which conceptual structures of the translated texts (TT) match the conceptual structure of the source texts (ST). The present paper concludes that not all the conceptual structures of the translated texts (TT) are in full correspondence with the conceptual structure of the source texts (ST).
Metaphor study has been a main feature of literary study since ancient rhetoric. A number of appr... more Metaphor study has been a main feature of literary study since ancient rhetoric. A number of approaches to metaphor have been devised to answer questions about whether metaphors are ornamental or essential for meaning; whether metaphors are linguistic or psychological .Much work in cognitive science has demonstrated that metaphor is a basic pattern in the way that human mind works and that there is a basic distinction between linguistic expressions of metaphor and their underlying conceptual content .The present paper is an attempt to discuss a range of metaphors in Canto I of Keats' " The Fall of Hyperion " to the aim of identifying how full words can be taken as metaphorical by a number of readers .
The Motion event and space are two central phenomena in cognitive linguistics because they are pr... more The Motion event and space are two central phenomena in cognitive linguistics because they are primary in human experience and cognition. However, it is a well-established fact that languages differ in their linguistic expression of Motion.. The Motion event is subject to human spatial thinking and to crosslinguistic variations. In addition, the construction of a basic Motion event has a mental schema in the human mind, i.e. it provides a cognitive framework to the meaning of abstract domains, and it is lexicalised in all the world's languages. Space is a complex linguistic domain based on the interaction between language and cognition. In the traditional approaches to linguistics, space is treated as the physical location of an entity; however, in cognitive linguistics, space is considered as a mental representation ; that is, in addition to being physical, space 1 This paper is based on an MA thesis written by the second researcher and supervised by the first.
GP is a theory of the sound structure of language. The theoretical framework of GP owes a great d... more GP is a theory of the sound structure of language. The theoretical framework of GP owes a great deal to The Sound Pattern of English ( henceforth, SPE) in which Chomsky and Halle set forth the theory and the application to English (Schane, 1973:xv).
This study is primarily concerned with applying Genette`s narratological framework of focalizatio... more This study is primarily concerned with applying Genette`s narratological framework of focalization to the study of Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway. It aims to pursue an approach for insights about the working of narrative by looking into indicators of subjectivity. The study falls into two parts.
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