PARALLELISM AS A COHESIVE DEVICE IN ENGLISH an‎d ARABIC PRAYERS: CONTRASTIVE ANALYSIS

AZIZ, RANA NAJI no affliation , HUSSIEN, ABBAS LUTFI no affliation

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The aim of this chapter is to establish a theoretical base and framework for the present study. It starts with illustrating the nature of religious language (English prayers and Arabic adi ya) as being the main key concepts on which the study is based. The general concepts of cohesion and cohesive devices are reviewed to illustrate their role in holding parts of a text together. The chapter is devoted to the presentation of parallelism asa linguistic phenomenon; it illustrates the nature of parallelism in both English and Arabic, linguistic studies and the origin of parallelism, as well as its use as a cohesive device, its types and functions. Models of analyzing parallelism as one device of cohesion are introduced to reach the adopted model of analysis for this study.

PARALLELISM AS A COHESIVE DEVICE , ENGLISH an‎d ARABIC PRAYERS , CONTRASTIVE ANALYSIS

2012

الاستاذ للعلوم الانسانيه و الاجتماعيه