Bücher von Riyadh Tariq Kadhim Al-Ameedi

Social justice is the fair construction of society. In a just society, there is no one to be marginalized or humiliated because of his religion, ethnic, or social class. All have the same rights to live a dignified life. The study aims at: reavealing the significance of social justice in the New Testament and Nahjul ¿ Balagha from a pragmatic point of view, finding out the kinds of speech acts utilized in such texts, pinpointing the kinds of deixes that are employed in this kind of texts, identifying the rhetorical devices that flout the cooperative maxims and generate implicature, detecting the politeness maxims that are used in such texts, pinpointing the similarities and differences in the two texts.

The present study is a PhD dissertation submitted to the council of College of Arts, Al-Mustansiriya University in 1996 for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Linguistics and Translation. It deals with FOREGROUNDING as one of the linguistic devices used to organize information of a text to achieve some literary effect. The study falls into five chapters. Chapter One is the introduction which covers the problem, aims, hypotheses, procedures and limit of the study. Chapter Two discusses the concept of foregrounding in English whereas Chapter Three is concerned with foregrounding in Arabic. Chapter Four deals with foregrounding in translation. Chapter Five sums up the most important conclusions arrived at.

Retribution and/or reward-and-punishment ideology is an acknowledged tenet in almost most cultures and religions. To be more specific, in monotheistic religions, retribution is both a core-tenet and teaching. A large portion of Glorious Qur'anic texts embodies the righteous judgment of Allah the Almighty, His gracious as well as wrath feature. They present this tenet in its double-face meaning: the future rewards and bliss to the righteous for their good done, and punishment and misery to the wicked for their evil done in their earthly lives. Both be summed by the doctoral idea of ' heaven' and ' hell'. Such a solemn theme itself is really challenging to be studied linguistically especially from the stylistic perspective for being part and parcel of the Glorious Qur'an; the supreme and highly style religious texts.

The present study is based on a MA thesis submitted to the council of College of Education, Ibn Rushd, University of Baghdad, Iraq in 1989 for the degree of master of Arts in English Language and Linguistics. It describes the syntactic and semantic aspects of adverbial clauses and phrases of reason through which the English language mainly expresses the idea of causality. Furthermore, it presents the general points of causality as a philosophical context. A short review of the traditional treatment of causality is given at first, followed by the transformational treatment. It derives some rules that transform kernel sentences into adverbial clauses and, if possible, phrases of reason having the same meaning and embed them within a matrix sentence.