The Expressive and Emotive Function in the Jordanian Parent-Child Interactions

Abstract

The present paper investigates the emotive and expressive socio-pragmatic function in the Jordanian parent-child interactions in Irbid City, Jordan. A sample of 100 children from different areas of Irbid was chosen randomly from schools in Irbid governorate in North Jordan. It consisted of pupils at grade 5 who are 11 years old. Half of the sample were males, whereas the second half were females. A questionnaire of 5 items was directed to the school children to measure the expressive and emotive socio-pragmatic function. The results showed that parent-child interactions in Jordanian Arabic exhibit the emotive and expressive socio-pragmatic function. The results also showed that parents' interactions affect the children's personality and behavior positively through applying certain tactics and styles.

Analysis of Congratulation Strategies by Swahili Speakers in Response to Happy Occasions on Facebook Status Updates

“…Congratulatory speech act is one of the understudied speech acts in different languages worldwide (Stadler, 2013;Wardat & Alkhateeb, 2020). Most of the existing literature focuses on other types of speech acts like apologies, refusals, greetings, requests, complaints and others with little concentration on the speech act of congratulation (Allami & Nekouzadeh 2011;Banikalef, 2021).…”