Letteratura scientifica selezionata sul tema "Kurdish language status"

This study aims to investigate the address terms in Kurdish language within the theory of politeness. It deals with the six major groups of terms of address. The most vital forms are identified through this study concerning each category, their social sense, and the factors that govern their usage. The number of participants were 100 Kurdish adults who were randomly selected form various public places. The main used methods for collecting data are questionnaire and interviewing participants. The reflection of the Kurdish terms of address on complex social relationship is highlighted through the results of the study between interlocutors. Various social factors have a great role in selecting a given term’s determination, for instance, gender, intimacy, formality, age, social status and familiarity between the interlocutor and the addressee. Each category of address terms are utilized by a specific group of users in various social domains.

Language is regarded as a method that people use to exchange ideas with each other, and it is considered the primary source of communication among human beings because it holds a profound role in comprehending the world around and beyond them. To speaks graciously and avoid face-threatening acts, language users are required to use politeness strategies. This study aims to find out the politeness strategies which are employed by Kurdish English language learners, at Soran University, as well as the differences in using these strategies in terms of gender and social status. Data is collected through a structured questionnaire which consists of five questions. The sample of the study is 40 EFL learners, non-randomly selected, at the Faculty of Arts/ English Department during the academic year 2020-2021. Further, this paper adopted a descriptive quantitative method for data collection and explanation. It used Brown and Levinson's politeness theory (1987) as a model, as well as the SPSS program version (25) for analyzing and depicting the percentage and frequency of occurrences of the politeness strategies used by male and female students with their classmates and teachers in different situations. The findings show that Kurdish English language learners at Soran University employed politeness strategies, in the formal context, but they are treated differently in terms of gender and social status.

Compliment as one of the language strategies is used to soften the process of interactions. The way that compliments are given or interpreted as well as the frequency of using them vary from a language to another, from a community to another, and from a person to another. This study tries to track down compliments to illustrate their differences and the similarities in both concerned communities. Complimenting as a lubricant strategy does not always fulfill the purpose, and cannot always be easily employed due to the interactants' differences in terms of cultural backgrounds, social status, gender, and many other social and personal issues. Therefore, giving compliments is regarded as one of the problematic issues, and may cause a kind of misunderstanding among the interactants particularly in a cross-cultural environment. This study draws on both quantitative and qualitative approaches in the process of data collection. It aims at examining the giving and interpretation of compliment from a socio-pragmatic perspective. It comprehensively considers the concept of compliment, diversity of compliments across cultures, the differences in giving compliments in English and Kurdish as well as showing the relationship between compliment and flattery in these two different communities.

the Status of women is one of the most important cases in Kurdish society and it has been enormously considered by Kurdologists. Nevertheless, this issue is grossly neglected by most of the Kurdish historians. the significance of the research has come from the point at the beginning of the work of the kurdologists it has shown an ignored matter of history writing as a research subject on one side which is women history. The content of this study includes the introduction and three major subjects such as, (human beings and places, Kurds and places, women and place). The approach adopted in this study is an analytical approach, in the sense that the researchers contemplated the determinants of the different influences of the place on women and analyzed that. Some significant and basic sources have played important roles here, so the first one is associated with( related to) the research, which means that The information has been derived directly from the research itself. The sources such as ( Vaseline, the east of Kurdistan, from the 17th Century till 19th century), (Mecharson : a visit to Mesopotamia and Kurdish unknown date ) as so on...Lack of enough time may be the main obstacle for the research as the researcher sticked to finish the research in a certain time. As a result, they have reached the conclusion that place has a fundamental component primary sources making history, and it has left a direct impact on creating the movement of human history. Therefore, the effect of place on woman’s name, language, body, art, work, war, ornament, self-decoration, place of living… etc. has been shown.