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https://ptsldigital.ukm.my/jspui/handle/123456789/497927| Title: | Arabic additive markers in journalistic discourse: a corpus-based analysis |
| Authors: | Asem Ayed Suleiman Alkhawaldeh (P64116) |
| Supervisor: | Norsimah Mat Awal, Assoc. Prof. Dr. |
| Keywords: | Additive markers Arabic text Journalistic discourse Dissertations, Academic -- Malaysia |
| Issue Date: | 10-Dec-2015 |
| Description: | Additive markers are the most frequently used in Arabic, playing a crucial role in the production and perception of Arabic text. As a class of discourse markers, they are held to have distinct features and functions. Lacking mastery in using and understanding properly these features and functions may cause failure to the communication process between the writer and the reader. They may also constitute a challenge to students of Arabic and media practitioners. Therefore, the study offers a corpus-based analysis of the additive markers used in the journalistic discourse as the representative of Modern Standard Arabic. The study aims at identifying these markers, sub-classifying them, and finding out their features and functions. To this end, a specialized corpus derived from two Arabic news websites (Aljazeera.net and Alarabiya.net) is compiled, comprising three sub-genres: opinion articles, news reports, and sport reports. An eclectic framework from several scholars such as Halliday and Hasan (1976), Schourup (1999) and Mann and Thompson (1988) is employed for the purpose of the study. The findings show that 48 additive markers are identified and functionally classified into eight classes: exemplification, enumeration, specification, alternation, restatement, comparison, summarization, and topic-shift. They are found to display the following features: connectivity, optionality, non-truth conditionality, initiality, and multi-categoriality. The most frequently used markers, wa, kamā, fa, and ḥaythu are found to be multifunctional: wa serves six functions, kama serves four functions, fa serves five, and ḥaythu serves two functions. Comparing the usage of markers across the three subgenres, the study demonstrates that the nature of the subgenre influences the diversity and distribution of the additive markers.,Ph.D. |
| Pages: | 294 |
| Publisher: | UKM, Bangi |
| Appears in Collections: | Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities / Fakulti Sains Sosial dan Kemanusiaan |
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