Browsing by Author "Saeed, Aziz Thabit"
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Item Arab EFL learners’ acquisition of verbs of senses(Adam Mickiewicz University, 2012) Saeed, Aziz Thabit; Fareh, ShehdehThis study attempts to explore the difficulties that Arab EFL learners of English encounter in the use of five verbs of senses when used as copulas, main verbs, main verbs with a metaphorical use, and as parts of idioms. A questionnaire consisting of three parts was specially designed to elicit the necessary data for this study at the levels of recognition and production. The subjects of the study were 30 randomly selected senior English major university students. The results of the study show that the students encountered tangible difficulties in using the five target verbs. A hierarchy of difficulty was established and the main causes of the problem were identified.Item Some contextual considerations in the use of synonymous verbs: The case of steal, rob, and burglarize(Adam Mickiewicz University, 2006) Saeed, Aziz Thabit; Fareh, ShehdehThis paper explores the use of the synonymous verbs burglarize, rob and steal in various authentic contexts in an attempt to identify the semantic and syntactic constraints that differentiate them from one another. The study, drawing data from newspaper articles, books, spontaneous speech as well as the BNC and concordance systems, shows that each of these words possesses semantic and syntactic features that distinguish it form the other two. The study also shows how contextual factors determine the choice of one verb rather than the other. After presenting many illustrative examples that reveal the peculiar nature of each verb, the paper attempts a componential analysis of these three synonymous items that further illustrates the uniqueness of each one of them.Item Some pragmatic considerations in the choice between this or that in English narrative discourse(Adam Mickiewicz University, 2008) Saeed, Aziz ThabitThis study attempts to explore the principles that govern the choice of demonstratives (proximal vs. distal) in English narrative discourse and the pragmatic effects that such choices create in discourse. To do this, the author analyzed the occurrences of demonstratives in two highly dialogue- type novels. Findings of the analysis revealed two major principles that tend to determine the type of demonstrative to use in a certain context, namely the contextual environment in which the demonstrative occurs and the subjective attitude of the speaker/writer. The study highlights the communicative purposes that demonstratives can convey under each of these two major conditions.Item Some pragmatic considerations in the positioning of if-clause in conditional sentences(Adam Mickiewicz University, 2004) Saeed, Aziz Thabit