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This paper is concerned with the pragmatic functions of slangy utterances used by Husseini preachers in the Iraqi context. Husseini preachers are religious and social reformers who use the Husseini issue as a foundation to their reformation. Slang is employed by such Husseini preachers in theirs lectures and sermons which are characterized by a highly formal context. Theoretical literature about pragmatics of slang is given. Afterwards, the pragmatic ends are investigated in a considerable number of lectures for various preachers. The most frequented slangy utterances used by Husseini preachers are selected and put in a questionnaire in accordance with a model adopted and selected for the objectives of the paper. In analyzing the data taken from the lecturers, sermons and the questionnaire, significant pragmatic functions are found that are related to the Iraqi society and the pragmatic strategies under the pragmatic principles, in addition to a pragmatic model which is peculiar to the Husseini context.

This study is concerned with revealing Iraqi EFL learners' use of the speech act of reprimand. It is composed of four sections, the first of which is dedicated to give an introduction about the study such as the problem, the aims and the hypotheses, the second is to present a theoretical survey about the speech act in question, the third is about collecting and analyzing data, and the fourth section is concerned with the conclusions. A two-part test consisting of 20 situations in each is designed to measure PhD and MA learners' recognition and production of reprimand. On the recognition level, a model by Garcia (2004) is used, while on the production level, their performance is compared to the performance of four native English speakers.

Parallelism is one of the linguistic tools used in literary works to make the text better in terms of reading and influencing the reader. Therefore, this study studies this linguistic tool in the religious texts and specifically in the Koran. This book (Quran) has affected all the people of all significantly since its descent and therefore this study is trying to find the answer to: Is this tool language is used here and to what extent. The hypothesis of this study is that parallelism is used in the Koran. Some of the short walls were selected from the Holy Quran for analysis. And then to present the conclusions that were the most important: This language tool has been used extensively in the Koran as well as some types of parallelism is used more than other species, as well as the use of parallelism in different ways as use to link more than two sentences.