Abstract
This study is concerned with the Iraqi autistic patients’ conceptualization of adverbs of time and place at the levels of production and recognition. To measure the mental ability of a particular category of autistic patients in terms of adverb use, a group of seven to ten years of age, in the school of Hama’im Al-Salam for Language Impaired Children have been variously tested; using spontaneous oral tests by their own teachers. A number of twenty-five patient-students are selected to be representative enough. After collecting the data and conducting a qualitative and quantitive analysis, the study has come up with certain conclusions. Chief among them is that Iraqi autistic patients fail, most of the time, to recognize time adverb more than place adverbs using the silence as a strategy to show their failure in recognition and production of adverbs. Furthermore, certain paralinguistic cures are employed as the rolling of the eyes, nodding the head and smiling.
Highlights
The term 'language' comes from 'lingua' which means 'tongue' in Latin
Findings of the study shows that ten different techniques such as literal, addition, deletion, claque, back translation, borrowing, definition are to be found to have been employed in translating cultural words of the novel
“the way of life and its manifestation that are peculiar to a community that uses a particular language as its means of expression (Newmark 1988:94 cited in Bhattrai (2000)”.It is the full range of learned human behaviour patterns
Summary
The term 'language' comes from 'lingua' which means 'tongue' in Latin. 'Lingua' was modified into 'langue' and into 'language' in French. The English people modified it into 'langue' in the 13th century with its core meaning 'communication by using words.' The origin of language is as old as human civilization It is vehicle for human thoughts and a medium of mutual exchange of ideas and feelings. Language is generally believed to be the essential instrument of ethnic expression: a viaduct for the belief, customs, rituals and behaviors, which constitute cultural identity It is seen as the embodiment of human action for most; language is inextricably linked to the very essence of being human and of belonging a specific cultural group. On the other hand, is “the way of life and its manifestation that are peculiar to a community that uses a particular language as its means of expression It is the full range of learned human behaviours patterns” (Newmark, 1981). In the same way that the surgeon, operating on the heart, cannot neglect the body that surrounds it (cited in Bassnett (1991)
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