University of Basrah Studies in English

These papers represent a cross-section of the research work conducted in the Department of English of the College of Education at the University of Basrah, Basra, Iraq. It is anticipated that their publication will encourage future studies by placing work in English Studies from the University of Basrah in an international perspective for the first time in decades. During the last couple of years, research work at the University of Basrah has been increasing and developing. The rehabilitation and reactivation of local journals has facilitated publication which for a long time had been halted. The present volume comprises research embodying different strands of the work of the Department of English, and showing recent trends in the study of linguistics and literature at the University of Basrah. Papers contributed represent work in various fields of study including phonetics and phonology, linguistics, ELT, pragmatics, discourse analysis, and literary stylistics.

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The Editors: Jinan Fedhil Al-Hajaj is a lecturer in the Department of English, College of Education, University of Basrah, Iraq. Teaching interests are in literature, particularly poetry. Her research is in the fields of literature, literary stylistics, and discourse analysis.
Graeme Davis is a lecturer in English linguistics at the Open University, UK, and a researcher specialising in English historical linguistics and the study of the North Atlantic region in the Middle Ages.

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Contents: Majeed Hameed Jasim/Jinan Fedhil Al-Hajaj: Introduction Jinan Fedhil Al-Hajaj: Intertextuality and the Linguistic Perspective: A Stylistic Study of Thomas Hardy's 'The Going' and 'The Haunter' Fatima H. Aziz/Amin U. Ghailan: Dramatic Monologue in Robert Browning's 'My Last Duchess': A Pragma-Stylistic Study Majeed Hameed Jasim/ Amin U. Ghailan: Paul Morel, Son and Man: A Stylistic Study Majeed Hameed Jasim/Ibtisam Hussein Naima: Free Indirect Discourse in Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse: A Stylistic Narrative Study Abdul-Settar Abdul-Latif: The Invisible Perfidy in Waiting for Godot Ala' Hussein Oda/Nagham Jaafar Hussein: Presupposition as a Linguistic Theory in Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot in Terms of Karttunen's Approach Ala' Hussein Oda/Mehdi M. Mohammad: The Impact of Linguistic Context on Metaphoric Proverb Comprehension by Iraqi EFL Learners Balqis I.G. Rashid: Further Evidence for the Separation Hypothesis: The Case of Advanced Iraqi Learners Isra' Mahmood Salman/Balqis I.G. Rashid: Difficulties in the Pronunciation of English Proper Nouns Encountered by Advanced Iraqi Learners Rana Abdul Settar Abid/Nada Salih Abdul Ridha: A Study of Coherence in the Writings of EFL Advanced Iraqi Learners.