Steps For Civil, Constructions and Environmental Engineering, 1(1), 18–29. https://doi.org/10.61706/sccee120112

Abstract This study deals with the assimilation in daily Iraq language. It aims to find out the ways in which assimilation is used in daily language. It shows how the Iraqi expressions are assimilated in connected speech. This study highlights the fact that there are four types of assimilation found in daily Iraqi language. The first one is Assimilation with Nasal (Idgham be ghna) or Assimilation without Nasal (Idgham bedon ghna). The second one is called Identical Assimilation (Idgham Mutamathel). The third one is called Approximate Assimilation (Idgham Mutaqarib). The fourth one is called Homogeneous Assimilation (Idham Mutajanis). This study depends on data taken from an Iraqi poet and analysed according to an eclectic model. It is concluded that these four types of assimilation are found in daily Iraqi language, but at different rate.

Abstract The purpose of the current study is to examine the impact of work-life balance (WLB) for Small and Medium Enterprises (SME) employers and their employees’ affective commitment (AC), as well as the role of collectivism as a moderator between these constructs. A questionnaire was applied to collect data from 276 practitioners working in SMEs in Palestine. Partial least squares structural equation modelling (PLS-SEM) was used to analyze the data. The numerical results showed a substantial influence of WLB on AC and that collectivism also played a role as a moderator in the relationship between these constructs. Additionally, the study found that collectivism moderated the WLB – AC relationship. The implications of this research suggest that enhancing AC levels can promote workplace balance. This study contributes to an understudied association between WLB and AC in Palestinian SMEs, where the concept of collectivism is rarely utilized in relation to WLB and AC.

Abstract This study deals with the way the concept ‘terrorism’ has been dealt in selected newspapers’ reports. The date is gathered from reports published on the web sites of those selected newspapers, specifically two reports from New York Times. This study aims to show how ‘terrorism’ is dealt with stylistically from the linguistic point of view. In order to achieve the purpose of this study, it is necessary to solve the problem of how ‘terrorism’ is considered in newspapers’ reports. Thus, it is hypothesized that linguistic manipulation is one way used to convey the idea of terrorism. In order to analyse the data, Jeffries’s textual conceptual model Strategies (2010) will be adapted. It concluded that newspapers are different among them due to a certain policy followed in that country or to achieve a certain purpose. Thus, particular vocabularies are chosen for a purpose.

Steps For Civil, Constructions and Environmental Engineering, 1(1), 14–23. https://doi.org/10.61706/sccee120113

Steps For Civil, Constructions and Environmental Engineering, 1(1), 1–9. https://doi.org/10.61706/120111