Abstract

Pragmatic Markers in English and Arabic Religious Speeches: A Contrastive Study

Omar Raad Adwan, Prof Dr Addulkarim Fadhil Jameel

Volume: 11 Issue: 2 2021

Abstract:

This paper attempt to approach PMs from pragma-discoursal view and conducts a contrastive analytical study in selected English and Arabic religious speeches; more specifically selected religious speeches of Imam Ali (PBUH) as representative of Standard Arabic language and Prophet Al-Maseh Ibn Maryam (PBUH) as representative of Standard English language. Supposedly, PMs are considerably adopted in any language according to Fraser (2005) ‘‘there is a class of lexical expressions in every language called pragmatic markers’’ (cited in Fischer, 2006:189). Notably, there is no consensus on the term PMs as linguistic and para-linguistic particles; hence many researchers have labelled those particles as discourse markers, connectives, and pragmatic markers …etc. Mainly, those linguistic tools signal a relationship of elaboration, contrast, inference or temporality between adjacent messages. Fraser (2005:8) claims that they may appear in five syntactic categories: coordinate conjunction, subordinate conjunction, preposition, prepositional phrase and adverb. This study discusses the quali-quanti results after examining Fraser (2005) model applicability on the aforementioned selected religious speeches by Imam Ali (PBUH) and Prophet Al-Maseh Ibn Maryam (PBUH).

DOI: http://doi.org/10.37648/ijrssh.v11i02.023

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