The manifestations of Iraqi and American culture in the book "The Modern Iraqi Dialect by Yassin Mahmoud Al-Khalisi"

Abstract

If we take a glance at the developments of language since its inception and at its various functions, we see that language has undergone extensive changes, whether in the view of specialists, educational scientists and intellectuals, or in the view of ordinary people, so that they no longer consider language as a mechanism for establishing communication between them. Rather, they plan to apply their political, economic, commercial and tourist agendas under the pretext of teaching their languages to non-native speakers. Recent studies and research conducted in the field of sociology prove and emphasize that the issue of language is considered one of the inseparable sections of culture and identity, which is not only a tool for establishing communication, but also contains social, ethnic and cultural messages.

Therefore, language education activists, researchers, writers and academics must keep a weight on cultural components in the language teaching process. Based on the above, the researcher in this modest scientific study tries to prove the extent of the interest of the famous Iraqi writer Mahmoud Yassin Al-Khalisi in the Iraqi and American cultural components in the authorship of his book entitled: (The Iraqi is not an Arab eloquent) through the statistical and analytical approach. The study proved that the geographical and cultural components of all its sub-indicators are the first component that the writer was interested in writing and printing the book at the level of Iraqi and American cultures, and religious cultural indicators are one of the least attentive components by the author.