A doctoral dissertation at the College of Education for the Humanities at the University of Basra examines the novels that won the 2001 Arabic Booker Prize, examining them in light of the pragmatic analysis of discourse.
The thesis, presented by student Nuha Saad Manati, aimed to demonstrate that discourse analysis based on pragmatic mechanisms does not follow a closed or ideal path, nor does it necessarily lead to definitive results, given the probabilistic nature of linguistic interaction, the multiplicity, and the contextual factors that lead to the production and understanding of meaning. Objectivity is not based on absolute ideas; it has sufficient breadth to make hypotheses of relative approximation a fundamental feature for modifying its paths. Linguistic thought has presented a new formulation of performative meaning, indeed an unconventional formulation of its rules of operation within the framework of communication and interaction. Pragmatic meaning is no longer a traditional abstract formulation; rather, it has transformed into a concrete performative formation, the effects of which are most evident in the multiplicity of its references that emerge in the approaches.
The thesis concluded that the pragmatic approach distances itself from any exclusionary tendency. Rather, it attempts to attract the various pragmatic elements, as they are basic influences in directing and accomplishing the discourse. The pragmatic approach has dealt with many issues that other approaches have not been able to decode and investigate their facts, which gives it this advantage over the rest of the approaches. It studies the internal and external levels of discourse, and the circumstances surrounding the discourse. It gives an important dimension to the study by opening many windows of knowledge, enabling us to discover many things that are hidden; because it provided the researcher with important ideas during her study
