University of Basrah Studies in English

Contents: Majeed Hameed Jasim/Jinan Fedhil Al-Hajaj: Introduction - Jinan Fedhil Al-Hajaj: Intertextuality and the Linguistic Perspective: A Stylistic Study of Thomas Hardy's 'The Going' and 'The Haunter' - Fatima H. Aziz/Amin U. Ghailan: Dramatic Monologue in Robert Browning's 'My Last Duchess': A Pragma-Stylistic Study - Majeed Hameed Jasim/ Amin U. Ghailan: Paul Morel, Son and Man: A Stylistic Study - Majeed Hameed Jasim/Ibtisam Hussein Naima: Free Indirect Discourse in Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse : A Stylistic Narrative Study - Abdul-Settar Abdul-Latif: The Invisible Perfidy in Waiting for Godot - Ala' Hussein Oda/Nagham Jaafar Hussein: Presupposition as a Linguistic Theory in Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot in Terms of Karttunen's Approach - Ala' Hussein Oda/Mehdi M. Mohammad: The Impact of Linguistic Context on Metaphoric Proverb Comprehension by Iraqi EFL Learners - Balqis I.G. Rashid: Further Evidence for the Separation Hypothesis: The Case of Advanced Iraqi Learners - Isra' Mahmood Salman/Balqis I.G. Rashid: Difficulties in the Pronunciation of English Proper Nouns Encountered by Advanced Iraqi Learners - Rana Abdul Settar Abid/Nada Salih Abdul Ridha: A Study of Coherence in the Writings of EFL Advanced Iraqi Learners.

The Editors: Jinan Fedhil Al-Hajaj is a lecturer in the Department of English, College of Education, University of Basrah, Iraq. Teaching interests are in literature, particularly poetry. Her research is in the fields of literature, literary stylistics, and discourse analysis.
Graeme Davis is a lecturer in English linguistics at the Open University, UK, and a researcher specialising in English historical linguistics and the study of the North Atlantic region in the Middle Ages.