Sahar Abdulrazzaq Fattah is an assistant lecturer in the Department of English at the College of Arts, University of Baghdad, Iraq. She holds an MA in English Language and Linguistics from the Department of English at the College of Arts, Mustansiriyah University. Since 2021, she has been teaching various linguistics subjects, including conversation, grammar, phonetics, and phonology, first at Al-Iraqia University and later at the University of Baghdad.
I obtained a Bachelor's degree in English from the College of Languages at the University of Baghdad and then a Master's degree in Linguistics from the College of Arts at Mustansiriyah University.
Multimodal discource analysis and pragmatics.
Applied linguistics, multimodal discource analysis, and pragmatics.
I have been teaching English since 2022-2021 and I cover a variety of subjects such as phonetics and phonology, conversation and grammar.
The advent of UNHCR reports has given rise to the uniqueness of its distinctive way of image representation and using semiotic features. So, there are a lot of researches that have investigated UNHCR reports, but no research has examined images in UNHCR reports of displaced Iraqis from a multimodal discourse perspective. The present study suggests that the images are, like language, rich in many potential meanings and are governed by clearly visual grammar structures that can be employed to decode these multiple meanings. Seven images are examined in terms of their representational, interactional and compositional aspects. Depending on the results, this study concludes that the findings support the visual grammar theory and highlight the va
... Show MoreThe use of appropriate and accurate language is of utmost importance when describing people on the move and their dilemma, particularly refugees and displaced persons who have unique legal protection. So, there are a lot of scholars who have investigated the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees’ (UNHCR) reports, but no one has examined representational and interactional meanings of UNHCR reports. Accordingly, this research aims to explore the role of UNHCR reports in enhancing the value of the humanitarian, which is attributed to the uniqueness of its use of language. The current study investigates the manner in which the textual content interacts with the images that are associated with the category of the UNHCR reports. Four re
... Show More