The course aims at comparing and contrasting the linguistic units of both English and Arabic, as well as it attempts to highlight the similarities and differences between the two linguistic systems on all levels: morphological, phonetic, phonological, syntactic, semantic, idiomatic and rhetorical.

The course is concerned with the linguistic analysis of texts, and particularly with the relationship between linguistic choices on the one hand and the reader's interpretations on the other. It provides students with an understanding of concepts and methods relevant to pragmatic analysis; the ability to undertake a detailed and systematic analysis of literary texts.

The course aims at enhancing the students' awareness of the inextricable link between language and culture generally and the relationship between culture and the target language (i.e., English) specifically.  After a brief introduction to the history of the English language, students are offered texts in the field of Language varieties such as dialects and accents of the target language, Bilingualism and Language Planning.

The course aims at enhancing the students' understanding of culture as particular phenomena relating to matters of ideology, nationality, ethnicity, social class, and gender. It also aims at Expanding students' understanding of the idea that cultural studies mean the practices of everyday life; students are to understand a culture in all its complex forms and analyze the social and political context in which culture manifests itself.

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