British Journal of English Linguistics (BJEL)

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Procrastination

Psycho-Discourse Analysis of Procrastination in Biblical and Quranic Verses (Published)

The study attempts to analyze procrastination verses in religious texts from psycho-discourse perspectives as psychological factors, discourse acts, transitivity, and discursive strategies. Twenty extracts are analyzed by qualitative methods. The results show different psychological features as emotional valence and arousal. They also display three discourse acts like informative, elicitation, and directives. The study results with different processes of transitivity as mental, material, behavioral, etc. It also displays different psychological strategies as hyperbole, norm violations, and negative comparison.

Keywords: Procrastination, Transitivity, acts, psycho-discourse

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