TAILIEUCHUNG - A COMPARISON OF THE TEXTUAL STRUCTURES OF ARABIC AND ENGLISH WRITTEN TEXTS

The ability to conduct research independently, accurately, and effectively plays a fundamental role in college and the workplace. Research skills are critical tools for acquiring, extending, and sharing knowledge in academic and workplace settings, and students must be able to determine when and how to conduct and document research. Research as described here is not limited to the formal, extended research paper; rather, these skills encompass a flexible yet systematic approach to resolving questions and investigating issues through the careful collection, analysis, synthesis, and presentation of information from print and digital sources. These research skills equip students with. | Vol I A COMPARISON OF THE TEXTUAL STRUCTURES OF ARABIC AND ENGLISH WRITTEN TEXTS A Study in the Comparative Orality of Arabic Volume 1 MALCOLM PASTON WILLIAMS submitted in accordance with the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy The Department of Linguistics and Phonetics The University of Leeds February 1989 Vol I ABSTRACT Malcolm p. Williams A COMPARISON OF THE TEXTUAL STRUCTURES OF ARABIC AND ENGLISH WRITTEN TEXTS A Study in the Comparative Orality of Arabic Submitted in accordance with the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosopy 1989 The aim of this thesis is to show how patterns of cohesion and text development differ in English and Arabic and in doing so add to the growing literature showing that Arabic is still very much an oral language at least in comparison with English. That is to say Arabic tends to be written as if to be spoken whereas English is written as if to be read. The approach taken is quantitative and stands within the Systemic Functional Model of Grammar the Textual Component of which has been modified to take into account some of the insights gained by Prague School research into Functional Sentence Perspective. The cohesive analysis supported by statistical evidence shows that 1. Arabic tends to avoid ellipsis. 2. Substitution is a marginal phenomenon in both English and Arabic texts of the type analyzed. However English tends to use it more than Arabic. 3. The addresser and the addressee are given a higher profile in the Arabic texts than in the English texts. 4. Arabic seems to use a higher proportion of pronouns than English . 5. English displays more use of cohesive synonym items than Arabic . 6. Arabic displays more lexical string repetition than English. 7. Arabic displays more repetition of clause structure than English . 8. Arabic uses more multifunctional connectors than English. In addition the analysis shows that English technical writing favours greater thematic complexity than Arabic does and different

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