Abstract
Iraqi Arabic includes the use of different types of politeness, such as greetings. Greetings are essential parts of everyday interaction. These polite sayings are produced on different intonational patterns. The speech of 48 Iraqi Arabic speakers is recorded to examine the intonational patterns of greetings. The participants are divided into three groups: educated, partly educated and uneducated participants. Each group includes eight men and eight women. The intonational system of Halliday and Greaves (2008) is adopted to describe the intonational patterns used. study concludes that greetings in Iraqi Arabic are formal or informal depending on the relationship between the speaker and addressee in addition to the context of the situation. In respect to intonation, men use falling tones more than women do on formal and informal greetings. The study requires a modification of Halliday and Greaves’ system of intonation (2008) by adding new symbols to account for the intonational patterns observed in Iraqi Arabic.
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