Muthanna Mohammed Hassan Abdul-Rahman Al-Shawi

Using homonymous words enables speakers/writers to make their interactions/ writings successful, effective and more agreeable with others to increase their influence in making key points and to reveal the ambiguity in the communication. This paper starts with the introduction about this topic involving: the problems that the interlocutors face in their communication and how they solve the ambiguity of using such words by explicating specific terms that related to this subject throughout highlighting on various definitions of the term "homonymy" depending on a number of linguists. Additionally, the paper attempts to clarify the concepts of co-text and context of situation and their relation in interpretation of meanings of words by taking selected examples of quranic verses and presenting some conclusions by using descriptive method in analyzing the selected samples. Key words: Homonymous words, co-text, and context of situation.

Language code-switching (CS) is an important linguistic device to study the linguistic community and its usage by individuals who speak two languages, their mother tongue and their second language. The aim of this paper is to find indications of utilising this device as a function and an educational tool for teaching English in the classroom. The motives for this linguistic device and how to employ it by instructors of the English Language Department and how that is effective on their students. This paper deals with different functions of code-switching for postgraduate students in the Department of English Language/Faculty of Art at the University of Kufa in the classroom. The participants in this work are 8 instructors and 18 postgraduate students. Moreover, this study used a framework of code-switching analysis based on Gumperz's (1982) regions of teachers’ code-switching and the emerging functions from this study's analysis. Gumperz mentions six primary functions of code- switching (quotation, addressee specification, interjection, reiteration, message qualification, and personalisation). To obtain relevant and reliable data, both students and teachers answer a closed-ended questionnaire (see Appendix (1)). This study concluded that all the students agreed that, in most of their EFL classroom interactions, code- switching assisted them in accessing the curriculum (explaining the meaning of new words, phrases, grammar, and unfamiliar topics), managing the classroom (using code-switching is substantial to motivate students to learn English), and using English and mother tongue in the classroom to provide enough time and opportunities to practice the language (raising students’ motivation and trust).This findings show that instructors and students successfully applied code-switching as a beneficial strategy for assisting their English Foreign Language (EFL) classroom learning process.

Cyberpragmatics is the study of pragmatic principles and processes underlying computer-mediated communication (CMC) in relation to the contextual properties and communicative features of digital media. In general, this research presents models for describing exaggeration and illustrates it with an analysis of comments interactions associated with exaggeration. Exaggeration is a common technique on the Internet, where people can express their opinions and feelings in a creative and sometimes funny way. This cyberpragmatic study attempts to examine the use of exaggeration in YouTube comments and investigate how it contributes to the creation of meaning and social interactions on the platform. This paper also attempts to investigate the linguistic and pragmatic concepts of exaggeration through its definition and identify its scope to achieve the needs of the interactions between the interlocutors on the YouTube platform. However, this present paper aims at producing a cyberpragmatic structure for the exaggeration phenomenon. More precisely, this article attempts to find the answer to the main question, which is: What are cyber-pragmatic strategies utilised to achieve the exaggeration function of social media platform interactions under analysis, especially YouTube? As YouTube is one of the largest online video-sharing platforms, it is important to understand the role of exaggeration in shaping online interactions and communication.

Social media in particular has grown like wildfire around the globe, affecting practically every aspect of human existence. The internet becomes more and more essential to human social and communicative interaction in daily life. However, the current study aims at producing a cyberpragmatic structure of the satirical expressions phenomenon. In other words, the cyberpragmatic components of which satirical expressions are composed, identifying the cyberpragmatic strategies realising these strategies that are used most in the TikTok platform, show the most common cyberpragmatic strategies employed in social media comments. More precisely, the current paper seeks to bridge this linguistic gap by answering the following question: What are the most common cyberpragmatic strategies utilised in satirical expressions on social media platforms, especially TikTok?

The Holy Abbasid Shrine held its seventh annual scientific conference under the title (The Memory of Iraqi Pain), in which a number of researchers from inside and outside Iraq participated.

A research paper by one of the researchers was evaluated in the journal (Language Sciences), one of the international journals of (Elsevier).