A Comparative Study of Pejoration in English and Egyptian Vernacular Arabic from a Historical-Sociolinguistic Approach

Pejoration is an under-researched topic in the Arabic language. This study intends to examine pejoration Egyptian Arabic, as well its domains and causes. The employs a socio-semantic approach for pursuing in-depth investigations of Arabic. was contextually traced with purpose revealing how contextual realities, including historical, social, cultural, even ethical norms, could contribute pejorative meaning given linguistic expressions. present used mixed methodology combining qualitative quantitative approaches. It has been discovered that fallen into several such morphological, prosodic, lexical, metaphorical, pragmatic through conversational implicature slurs. metaphorical extension largely influenced process it found be high lexical items charged sexual connotations. Nouns are more prone than adjectives verbs. represented vernacular discourse, which contributes notable gap between Modern Standard colloquialism.