Waleed Younus Meteab
@waleed7_yonis@uohamdaniya.edu.iq
Department of English /Faculty of Education
University of Al-Hamdaniya
RESEARCH, TEACHING, or OTHER INTERESTS
Language and Linguistics, Education, Arts and Humanities, Literature and Literary Theory
Scopus Publications
Scopus Publications
Raghda Qiryaqous Estaifo, Waleed Younus Meteab, and Ali Hussein Hazem
Sciedu Press
Connectives are used as discourse markers by speakers of Mosuli Iraqi Arabic so that listeners will pay more attention during their utterances. The current study investigates the pragmatic functions of connectives in Mosuli Iraqi Arabic, selected from seven comedy series presented by Hassan Fashel. These comedy series contain the commonly used connectives that were investigated in the current research. These connectives are zee, kawee, dahiq, hasatta, and they are assumed to have different functions in different contexts. The study aimed to prove that connectives in Mosuli are multifunctional and intended to guide the listener to interpret the speaker’s utterance. The data selected from the series were analyzed according to Brinton’s model (1996). It is concluded that these connectives are multifunctional in different contexts and that the connective kawee was the most common in Mosuli dialect. The study also concludes with some remarkable suggestions that will be valuable for further research.