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وفاء صاحب مهدي محمد - Wafaa Sahib Mehdi Muhammed
PhD - assistant professor
College of Education for Women , English Language
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Summary

Assistant Professor at the University of Baghdad College of Education for Women

Specialization: Critical Pragmatics

Qualifications

Ph.D. in English language

Responsibility

Head of English Department

Awards and Memberships

Filbrighter 2014

Research Interests

Pragmatics Critical Theory

Academic Area

English language and linguistics

Teaching materials
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English phonetics
كلية التربية للبنات
اللغة الانكليزية
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Teaching

Teaching higher studies

Publication Date
Wed Dec 15 2021
Journal Name
Arab World English Journal
Aggressive Language in Literature: A Pragmatic Approach
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Aggression is a negative form of an anti-social behavior. It is produced because of a particular reason, desire, want, need, or due to the psychological state of the aggressor. It injures others physically or psychologically. Aggressive behaviors in human interactions cause discomfort and disharmony among interlocutors. The paper aims to identify how aggressive language manifests itself in the data under scrutiny in terms of the pragmatic paradigm. Two British literary works are the data; namely, Look Back in Anger by John Osborne (1956), and The Birthday Party by Harold Pinter (1957). This paper endeavors to answer the question of how aggressive language is represented in literature pragmatically? It is hoped to be significant to

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