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Representations of Egyptian Women in Mahfouz’s Cairo Trilogy: A Corpus-Based Appraisal Approach

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Last updated: 04 Jan 2025

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اللغة الإنجليزية وآدابها

Abstract

The present study analyzes not only the language used in the three novels of Mahfouz's Cairo Trilogy, but also the manifestations of the various attitudinal meanings. It presents a linguistic analysis based on Appraisal theory which was developed by Martin and White (2005), and rooted from Halliday's Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) (2014). The main objective of the study is to investigate the linguistic manifestations of the Attitude system of the Appraisal theory, which provides three types of attitudes; that is, affect, judgement, and appreciation. This approach highlights the interpersonal meanings conveyed by not only the author, but also the narrator of the selected novels. It also focuses on their feelings and attitudes about Egyptian women as depicted in the texts. A mixed quantitative and qualitative method is employed for the analysis. The three categories of the Attitude system, which are realized by means of a number lexical items, are manually annotated and investigated by using a software programme; that is, UAM (2023) which helps identify the different types of attitudes which are frequently used and distributed in the texts. Results show that the three kinds of attitudes were distributed with varying frequencies. Positive, rather than negative attitudes, are used by the author, which leads to a better understanding of the different meanings created in the selected texts.

DOI

10.21608/artman.2024.284835.2602

Keywords

Appraisal theory, ؛ Corpus Linguistics, ؛ Egyptian Women, ؛ Mahfouz, ؛ Systemic Functional Linguistics

Authors

First Name

رحاب

Last Name

حسن

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Affiliation

قسم اللغات كلية اللغة والاعلام بالأكاديمية العربية للعلوم والتكنولوجيا والنقل البحرى الاسكندرية مصر

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rehabrokaee1@gmail.com

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0000-0002-0388-8303

Volume

75

Article Issue

75

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49186

Issue Date

2024-08-01

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2024-04-23

Publish Date

2024-08-01

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1687-448X

Online ISSN

2974-3451

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https://artman.journals.ekb.eg/article_367284.html

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العلوم الانسانیة الأدبیة واللغات

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1,540

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Journal

Publication Title

مجلة کلية الاداب.جامعة المنصورة

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https://artman.journals.ekb.eg/

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Representations of Egyptian Women in Mahfouz’s Cairo Trilogy: A Corpus-Based Appraisal Approach

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Created At

27 Dec 2024