Overstatement
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A Sociolinguistic Analysis of Ironic Expressions in English and Kurdish
Thana`a Hasan Saeed, Abdul-Nafi Khidhir Hasan
This paper, which is part of the requirements of an MA degree, is entitled "A Sociolinguistic Analysis of Ironic Expressions in English and Kurdish." It provides further insight into the sociolinguistic application of irony. Irony, which is categorized into verbal and situational is when something that was expected to have a specific result instead of results in a completely different or opposite outcome. The paper argues that expressing one thing while implying another is not always irony. In some instances, the ironic statement alludes to the fact that the idea being refuted is what underlies the truth of a situation, a claim, or a previous way of thinking. Data on Kurdish irony are gathered through observation and are explained in English, while data on English ironic expressions are collected from the corpus of English including books and online sources. The investigation of the topic is conducted using a descriptive methodology. Each sort of irony is described and illustrated, and the figurative connotation in both languages is also emphasized. The main objective of the study is to clarify the figurative meaning of irony in the two languages. The most significant findings comprise first, that irony has a positive connotation in literal contexts while it has a negative connotation in figurative contexts. Second, figurative language, which is frequently used in communication, contains irony. Additionally, ironic expressions are italicized in both languages.
Volume 10 · Issue 3 · September 2023A Pragmatic Study of Overstatement in Kurdish Proverbs
Bekhal Latif Muhedeen, Shayma Mahmud Ahmed
Language has been a communication tool from early human history up to date. It is by using this significant tool that events and traditions have remained from the forefathers of every nation. An instance of the remained treasures of history is the items of folklore, in essence, proverbs, which is the subject of the current study. Admittedly, proverbs of any language comprise numerous figures of speech. This paper entitled “A Pragmatic Study of Overstatement in Kurdish Proverbs” is an extract from an MA thesis which pragmatically investigates the trope of overstatement in Kurdish proverbs. Introducing the two items related to the topic, namely, the proverb is an item of folklore inherited by the generations of every nation from their ancestors, which mostly gives a lesson. The trope, which in the current study is to be investigated inside the Kurdish proverbs, overstatement, is said to be, as the word itself suggests, an overly stated statement. Usually what is explained is given coloring and excessive importance or it is embellished more than its normal being. The study aims to investigate the aforementioned trope in some selected proverbs of the Kurdish language from a pragmatic perspective. This is to be conducted by adopting the eclectic model of Braim (2014). In light of the results, the trope was found to be present in seven proverbs from the data provided. The trope's most recurrent pragmatic forms and functions are seen to be adverbs and emphasis. Pragmatically, it is affirmed that overstatement has implicature in every analyzed instance during the analysis of the current study.