{"id":45201,"date":"2025-08-18T07:19:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T07:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uomosul.edu.iq\/en\/arts\/?p=45201"},"modified":"2025-08-18T07:19:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T07:19:08","slug":"masters-thesis-on-politeness-strategies-in-arabic-football-commentaries-with-reference-to-english","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uomosul.edu.iq\/en\/arts\/2025\/08\/18\/masters-thesis-on-politeness-strategies-in-arabic-football-commentaries-with-reference-to-english\/","title":{"rendered":"Master&#8217;s Thesis on &#8220;Politeness Strategies in Arabic Football Commentaries with Reference to English&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The English Department at the College of Arts discussed a master&#8217;s thesis titled <b>&#8220;Politeness Strategies in Arabic Football Commentaries with Reference to English&#8221;<\/b> on Sunday, August 17, 2025, in the discussion hall at the College of Islamic Sciences. The Dean of the College, Professor Dr. Hatem Fahd Al-Tai, the Head of the Department, Dr. Salih Abdullah Abdul-Rahman, and a number of faculty members attended a part of the discussion.<\/p>\n<p>The study, presented by the student Abdul-Jabbar Khalaf Hussein, provided an in-depth pragmatic analysis of politeness strategies in Arabic football commentary, with a reference to English. The thesis focused on a discourse analysis of Arab commentators during live football matches, specifically &#8220;El Cl\u00e1sico&#8221; and &#8220;the Derby&#8221; games, to reveal the linguistic patterns used by commentators to maintain a relationship with the audience and avoid offense.<\/p>\n<p>This thesis aims to clarify how Arab commentators employ different politeness strategies during sports commentary and to identify the pragmatic purposes for using each strategy in specific contexts.<\/p>\n<p><b>Defense Committee:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Asst. Prof. Dr. Ismail Fathi Hussein \/ University of Mosul \/ College of Education for Humanities (Chairman)<\/li>\n<li>Asst. Prof. Dr. Dunia Ali Hussein \/ University of Mosul \/ College of Arts (Member)<\/li>\n<li>Dr. Osama Misbah Mahmoud \/ University of Mosul \/ College of Arts (Member)<\/li>\n<li>Asst. 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The thesis focused on a discourse <a href=\"https:\/\/uomosul.edu.iq\/en\/arts\/2025\/08\/18\/masters-thesis-on-politeness-strategies-in-arabic-football-commentaries-with-reference-to-english\/\"> [Read More]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":45202,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-viva"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uomosul.edu.iq\/en\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uomosul.edu.iq\/en\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uomosul.edu.iq\/en\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uomosul.edu.iq\/en\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/65"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uomosul.edu.iq\/en\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45201"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/uomosul.edu.iq\/en\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45206,"href":"https:\/\/uomosul.edu.iq\/en\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45201\/revisions\/45206"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uomosul.edu.iq\/en\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uomosul.edu.iq\/en\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uomosul.edu.iq\/en\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uomosul.edu.iq\/en\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}