Address Terms in Ayad Akhtar's The Who and The What | ||
| مجلة کلية الاداب.جامعة المنصورة | ||
| Volume 76, Issue 76, January 2025 | ||
| Document Type: العلوم الانسانیة الأدبیة واللغات | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/artman.2024.334277.2855 | ||
| Author | ||
| Eman Hijazi* | ||
| Al-Aqsa University | ||
| Abstract | ||
| This present study aims to conduct a sociolinguistic analysis of Ayad Akhtar’s The Who and The What.The researcher relies on Wardhaugh's (2006) model of address terms to examine how Akhtar introduces the issues related to Asian Muslim immigrants and how the main chatacters employ the types of address terms such as kinship , first terms , pet names and special nicknames to introduce the image of the immigrants’ life in the host culture .The numerical data analysis depends on the Statistics Package for Social Sciences (SPSS). According to the results, the creative and careful utilization of the kinship addresses terms with a rate( 66%) and frequency (121) and the first names with a frequency (55) and rate of (30%) reflected a high degree of intimacy, respect, and politeness.Therefore, Ayad Akhtar employed the address terms in the selected play to represent the image of the Asian Muslim immigrant who suffers from the clashes between the host and native culture. Moreover, the researcher unveils the linguistic garment to introduce the lives of the immigrants who have been suffering from the American hegemony and its war against the Islamic culture. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| . / Kinship; Sociolinguistics; Address Terms; Ayad Akhtar | ||
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