A Sociolinguistic Study of The Horse Image in Some English and Iraqi Arabic Proverbs

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Published: Jun 7, 2020
DOI: https://doi.org/10.14500/kujhss.v3n1y2020.pp14-20
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Formality, Horse Image, Proverbs, Social Distance, Sociolinguistics

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Muhammed B. Salman
Department of English, College of Education for Humanities, Tikrit University, Tikrit, Iraq
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8288-8546
Hassan Kh. Amer
Educational Directorate of Anbar, Al-Ramadi City, Anbar, Iraq
http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4727-0684

Abstract

This research deals with the horse image in some English and Iraqi Arabic proverbs showing how English and Iraqi Arabs interpret, understand, and use these proverbs which include horse image. The selected proverbs are analyzed depending on Holme’s (2013) social factors which are: social distance variable, status variable and formality variable of setting. The English population of the research includes two universities in England. To make the project more applicable, the focus is on Leeds and London universities. The researcher chooses students randomly from “University of Leeds” in Leeds and a university named “London School of Economics and Political Sciences” in London. As for the Iraqi Arabic population, the people who represent the Arabic sample of the current study are from Tikrit and Anbar cities. They are enrolled at “Tikrit University” and “Anbar University” respectively. Among the findings, it is found out that English and Iraqi Arabs have somehow similar connotations concerning the horse image in relation to cultural, occupational, social distance, and formality variables. This denotes that though the two cultures are different, they share some social variables as they have similar connotations for some concepts as in the selected topic. The occupational variable shows that native speakers of both languages indicate that the proverbs which include the horse image are used more frequently by farmers other than other occupations.

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Salman, M. B. and Amer, H. K. (2020) “A Sociolinguistic Study of The Horse Image in Some English and Iraqi Arabic Proverbs”, Koya University Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, 3(1), pp. 14-20. doi: 10.14500/kujhss.v3n1y2020.pp14-20.
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Author Biographies

Muhammed B. Salman, Department of English, College of Education for Humanities, Tikrit University, Tikrit, Iraq

Muhammed Barjes a university professor at the University of Tikrit, College of Education for Humanities, Department of English. He has been teaching there for (11) years. He got a B.A. degree in English language in 2005 and M.A. in English language and Linguistics in 2009, both are from the University of Tikrit, College of Education for Humanities. He got His Ph.D. in 2015 from the University of Baghdad, College of Arts in English Language and Linguistics/ Cognitive Semantics. He taught different courses for undergraduate and postgraduate students including grammar, comprehension, linguistics, semantics, syntax, and contrastive linguistics. He interested in the fields of contrastive linguistics and translation. Also, He has a B.A. in religious sciences and jurisprudence from the University of Tikrit, College of Religious Sciences.

Hassan Kh. Amer, Educational Directorate of Anbar, Al-Ramadi City, Anbar, Iraq

Hassan Khalaf, he is from Anbar. He got a B. A. in 2012 from the University of Anbar, College of Education for Humanities in English Language. He got M. A. in 2018 from University of Tikrit, College of Education for Humanities in English Language and Linguistics. Currently, he is a teacher of English at General Directorate of Education in Anbar.

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