Halliday’s Interpersonal Meta-function Analysis of Entrepreneur’s Public Speech in English and Central Kurdish A Comparative Study

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Hawsar A. Shekhani
Jamal A. Taha

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This paper examines the role and significance of Interpersonal language meta-function in understanding and constructing language use and functions among language users in a business context in English and Central-Kurdish languages. In analyzing entrepreneurs’ public speeches, the researchers employ the descriptive and qualitative approach with the content analysis. The instrument used in this study is to examine the qualitative exploratory data among entrepreneurs’ public speech in business discourse in English and Central-Kurdish. The paper attempts to answer the following questions; What is the dominant mood type among the entrepreneurs in English and Central-Kurdish in business discourse? How does the use and selection of the personal pronoun by entrepreneurs in English and Central-Kurdish influence the interpersonal meta-function? and lastly, What are the frequency and occurrence of Attitudinal mode in the public speech of entrepreneurs concerning Type and possible Polarity? The findings show the information about the distribution of the results in regard to the mood types, the use and selection of personal pronouns and the frequencies of each attitudinal mode in an entrepreneur’s public speech in English and Central Kurdish quantitatively. The study reveals that the prominent type of mood is declarative mood, besides the use and selection of the Personal Systems play a significant role in which the speaker expresses his attitude, influence and maintaining friendship and intimacy with the audience. The dominant personal pronoun is first personal system and the positive Affect mode exceeds other attitudinal modes both in English and Central-Kurdish.

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Shekhani, H. A. and Taha, J. A. (2023) “Halliday’s Interpersonal Meta-function Analysis of Entrepreneur’s Public Speech in English and Central Kurdish: A Comparative Study ”, Koya University Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, 6(1), pp. 22-31. doi: 10.14500/kujhss.v6n1y2023.pp22-31.
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Hawsar A. Shekhani, English Department, Faculty of Education and Language, Charmo University, Kurdistan Region, Iraq

Hawsar A.Shekhani is an English instructor in the Ministry of Education, teaching the English language in the Koya Physical Education InstituteHe is an MA student in General Linguistics in Charmo University. College of Education and Language, Kurdistan Region, F.R. Iraq. He holds a BA degree in English  Language and Literature. He is interested in Discourse Analysis and Functional Grammar.

Jamal A. Taha, Department of English Language, College of Basic Education, University of Sulaimani, Kurdistan Region, Iraq

Jamal A. Taha has a Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics(Corpus Linguistics) in University of Sulaimani-Sulaimani-Iraq. In 2011 he got MA degree in English Linguistics – Theoretical Linguistics (specialized in English Linguistics) at Koya University – Erbil - Iraq. In 2008 he studied my BAdegree in English Language and Literature at Koya University. He got his Diploma degree in 2000 in Central Teachers’ Institute of Erbil - English Department. 

 

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