A sociolinguistic study of the use of cardinal and ordinal numbers in rhetorical, phraseological expressions in Jordanian spoken Arabic

The present study aims to inspect the use of cardinal and ordinal numbers in rhetorical phraseological expressions in Jordanian spoken Arabic from a sociolinguistic point of view. The required data were collected by the researcher himself over a period of one year from different related online and printed sources in addition to personal observation and local, TV and radio programs where data have undergone thorough investigation to find out their linguistic structure. The findings of the study showed that certain numbers were used in rhetorical phraseological expressions in Jordanian Arabic where the frequency of some of these numbers was higher than others. The outcomes also revealed that these numbers were used in these expressions for various social and linguistic purposes.