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A SOCIO-PRAGMATIC STUDY OF OFFER STRATEGIES MANIPULATED BY IRAQI DIALECT SPEAKERS

Assistant lecturer Abdullah Najim Abd Al Khanaifsawy

Volume: 8 Issue: 2 2018

Abstract:

The current study presents a socio-pragmatic analysis to the strategies manipulated by Iraqi dialect speakers for expressing the speech act of offer in interactional situations. The present study hypothesizes that (1) The manipulation of Iraqi dialect speakers to the direct offer strategies is better than the indirect ones,(2)Most of Iraqi dialect speakers tend to perform direct offer imperatively, and (3) Most of Iraqi dialect speakers utilize questions for showing indirect offer in interactional situations .The study basically aims at (1) analyzing the speech act of offer theoretically within the theories of Speech Act and Politeness, and (2) investigating the most common strategies performed by Iraqi dialect speakers in discoursal activities. To achieve the aims of the study and verify or refute its hypotheses, a sample of 20 Iraqi dialect speakers, chosen randomly from Diwaniya province, is involved to issue acts of offer (using their Iraqi colloquial dialects) to five interactional situations written in Arabic.

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