The Implicit and Explicit Representation of Men and Women in the Discourse of Selected Arabic Novels: <em>Love’s Second Carbon Dioxide</em> — A Pragmatic-Cognitive Approach

This study seeks to clarify and analyze the explicit and implicit strategic structures in two types of discourse—male discourse and female discourse—through the lens of pragmatics and cognitive linguistics. It examines concepts such as implicature, context, presupposition, shared knowledge, and the principles governing discourse (the Cooperative Principle and the Politeness Principle), all of which contribute to identifying the explicit and implicit strategies employed in both forms of discourse. The study adopts a descriptive-analytical approach in an attempt to answer the following questions: 1. What are the concepts of the explicit and the implicit in pragmatics and cognitive linguistics? 2. What cognitive and pragmatic mechanisms do speakers employ in analyzing explicit and implicit meanings? Are these mechanisms effective in uncovering them? 3. What are the manifestations of explicit and implicit expression in the discourse of men and women? 4. How do pragmatic context, the nature of the relationship between interlocutors, and shared knowledge influence the interpretation of explicit and implicit meanings? 5. What is the role of pragmatics and cognitive linguistics in clarifying the implications of explicit and implicit strategies in both discourses?