Public PhD Viva-Voce Examination of Ms. Abeer Abdo Hizam Sofian Al-Fawdaie
The Public Viva-Voce Examination for the PhD Dissertation hereto entitled, Al-Tha’alibi’s Narratives in Al-KinayahWa Al-Taridh Book: A Pragmatic Study, submitted by Ms.Abeer Abdo Hizam Sofian Al-Fawdaie, Department of Arabic Faculty of Languages, was held on Saturday, 06/06/1446 Hijri corresponding to 07/12/2024. The Viva-Voce Committee, which was formed based on a resolution issued by the Post-Graduate Studies and Scientific Research Council, consisted of the following:
# | Committee Members | Designation | University | Position |
1 | Assoc. Prof. Ahmed Hassan Hassan Al-Arusi | Internal examiner | Sana’a University | Chair |
2 | Assoc. Prof. Altaf Ismail Al-Shami | External Examiner | Taiz University | Member |
3 | Assoc. Prof. Adnan Yousef Ahmed Al-Shaebi | Main supervisor | Sana’a University | Member |
The study aimed to identify the domains of pragmatics and apply them to Al-Tha’alibi’s narratives in the Al- Kinayahwa Al-Taridh Book.
The study concluded with a number of findings, including:
Most of Al-Tha’alibi’s narratives are personal experiences, characterized by an abundance of personal deictic expressions distributed across the use of nouns, pronouns, and vocative terms.
Social deixis contributes to establishing communication in discourse and enhances trust between interlocutors to achieve successful communication and clarify meanings using the methods of metaphor (kinayah) and allusion (taridh) in Al-Tha’alibi’s narratives.
Speech acts in these narratives require additional pragmatic domains, such as conversational implicature, presupposition, and various types of deixis, which collectively achieve functions like requests, commands, promises, and threats. These acts influence the audience, determining whether they accept or reject them, based on the pragmatic meaning defined by the context and situation in which the speech.
The researcher made several recommendations, including: Expanding the study of pragmatic theory and its application to various works of Arabic heritage.
The PhD dissertation has been examined and is recommended by the Viva-Voce Committee for acceptance and approval. The Candidate was recommended to be awarded the degree of Ph.D. majoring in Linguistics.
The viva was attended by academics, researchers, students, and other interested individuals, including the researcher’s colleagues and family members.
A recorded part of the Viv-Voce session
