The College of Islamic Sciences at the University of Karbala held a public discussion for a master’s thesis titled The Theory of Communication in the Prose of Zaid bin Ali (AS) by student Ali Abbas Hassan.

The researcher focused on uncovering the speaker’s intent and the extent to which the recipients understood the communicated message, using grammatical and rhetorical methods to achieve communicative functions.

The study referenced Roman Jakobson’s linguistic communication theory, one of the most prominent modern linguistic theories. It highlights the communicative functions of language, involving six key elements: the sender (expressive function), receiver (conative function), message (poetic function), code (metalingual function), and context (referential function).

The thesis was supervised by Assistant Professor Dr. Faiza Thaaban, with a committee chaired by Professor Dr. Wafaa Abbas Fayyad from the University of Karbala, and members Assistant Professor Dr. Iman Salim from Al-Mustansiriya University, and Assistant Professor Dr. Sarmad Adel from the University of Karbala. The thesis was awarded a distinction of very good.