Topic Continuity in Discourse in two stories "The Canal Does Not Know the Impossible" and "Hayat and Karima" by Samah Abu Bakr Ezzat: A Pragmatic Approach

Document Type : Academic scientific reviews of any other material related to the main domains of this Journal.

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South Valley University

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The research attempted to highlight the manifestations of the deliberative approach to two stories by Samah Abu Bakr Ezzat, through which she presented some national issues that happened in real life: they are the story of (The Canal Does Not Know the Impossible), which tells about the problem of the giant ship stuck in the Suez Canal, and the story of (Hayat and Karima) which was presented to the initiative Presidency (a decent life) in order to help children to develop a sense of the Egyptian identity, and strengthen their belonging to their homeland through an influential story template that is enveloped by a style that oscillates - sometimes - between the past and the present and becomes a source of knowledge, achieving both pleasure and benefit. The nature of the research imposed dealing with the pragmatics of the title as a communicative act, and a procedural key through which the recipient deals with the text, and the deliberative signs (personal, temporal, spatial, and social) that play a vital role in achieving effective communication. The research also presented the contextual elements on which the discourse is based (the addresser, the addressee, the message, the context), then the speech acts that are considered one of the pillars of the deliberative study, and the conversational implicature as the first pillar of any communicative process. Finally, the research ended with a set of findings.

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