The Influence of Social Life Developments on the Art of the Short Story during the Twentieth Century

Abstract

What distinguishes the story from other texts is that it contains a huge lexical wealth. This is because the cognitive texts that are taught in school curricula are usually limited to a group of new vocabulary that may have been encountered in previous school stages. As for the story in general - we mean here the complete story, not the narrative texts taken from novels or books - the length of its pages, the variety of events in it, and its sequence make it touch on more than one topic and more than one field in the same story; which leads to the formation of a huge lexical wealth in the individual, which improves his performance in all language skills. It improves reading for readers, especially those who suffer from reading difficulties. This is because those who can only read by spelling, as soon as they hear some new words with their meanings explained, they are imprinted in their minds. If they come across them in another place in a cognitive text, for example, and they are asked to read, they pronounce them directly without resorting to spelling them, especially if they hear them more than once. The lexical wealth that the reader gains from reading the story also improves the writing skills of students. Reading the story plays an important role in grammatical structures, as it introduces new grammatical structures and styles, in addition to emphasizing some styles that the reader has experienced in his previous educational stages. This benefit, which is gained with respect to grammatical structures, is distinguished by the fact that the reader studies them functionally through texts; that is, the grammatical rule is established in his mind through the text, not through education, which is characterized by a kind of rigidity in the classes devoted to grammatical rules. One of the most significant benefits readers gain from reading stories is learning the correct spelling of words. Often, people make mistakes related to the spelling of the hamza, whether it is medial or final. Reading stories develops what is known as linguistic castings. It refers to linguistic structures that cannot exist alone in texts, but are usually composed of two or more words. These castings are nothing but phrases transmitted from the Arabs, or inherited examples, or short prophetic hadiths, or jurisprudential or legal rules, and they are abundant in the narrative type of texts.You can hardly find a story without numerous well-crafted phrases, which helps develop the reader's linguistic skills across all genres.