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The Role of Communicative Dynamism in Directing the Flow of Information in Arabic with Reference to English | ||
| Journal of Tikrit University for the Humanities | ||
| Article 1, Volume 14, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 508-521 | ||
| Author | ||
| RAWI T. HABEEB | ||
| Abstract | ||
| ABSTRACT This paper tries to investigate how the different degrees of Communicative Dynamism (CD) contribute in the distribution of Given and New information in English and Arabic on the sentence level. Many linguists argue that in the unmarked pattern, the theme always carries the Given information because it conveys the lowest degree of CD, while the theme carries the New information because it conveys the highest degree of CD. Yet, that may only be in English and other Indo-European languages which tend to place the most important information towards the end of sentences. We shall try to investigate whether Arabic resembles English in this respect or not. We will adopt Firbas’s model in which he argues that the distribution of the various degrees of CD over the elements of the sentence is governed by some factors such as the context of situation, the semantic structure and/or the linear arrangement of the elements. | ||
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