2020-06

Humanities Journal of University of Zakho (Issue : 8) (Volume : 172)

Abstract The research paper entitle "The Measurement of Meaning for gradable adjective in Kurdish- Bahdini Local accent" is conducted on the basis of Osgood's theory of semantic differentials supported by the Likert Scale for ratings. The research links linguistics with psychology and is applied to a group of society in Kurdistan Region of Iraq (the students of University of Zakho/ Faculty of Humanities/ Departments of Kurdish, Arabic, English and Turkish for the academic year 2019-2020). These were selected because Semantics module is studied in all these departments and the students have, at least, basic information about it compared with other students who do not study this module. The research tries to get acquainted with the manner in which people measure the meaning of gradable adjectives in different ways. As well as this، it tries to know how much effect or influence the variables of the sample (gender) have on the semantic differences. The results were obtained by the statistical program of SPSS which stated a moderate significant difference between males and females responses in favor of females.