fa عمومى General پژوهشي Research <span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="line-height:107%"><span style="font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif">&nbsp;&nbsp; The aim of this work is to investigate the semantic category of hyponymy with the aim of discovering and highlighting the most and least dominant category types in Mansfield&#39;s</span></span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="line-height:107%"><span style="font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif"> short story, The Little Girl. The </span></span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="line-height:107%"><span style="font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif">findings of the research have found that the most dominant type is </span></span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="line-height:107%"><span style="font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif">body and its parts which occurred 14 times, </span></span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="line-height:107%"><span style="font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif">while least types were transportation and drink, which occurred only 2 times in the data under investigation.</span></span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="line-height:107%"><span style="font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif"> The results of the research can enhance and empower instructors and learners of English to learn and use new sets of vocabulary words, which will add more understanding to the language of literary texts too.&nbsp; </span></span></span> Hyponymy, Inclusion, Entailment, Meronymy, The Little Girl 263 276 http://jnrihs.ir/browse.php?a_code=A-10-2-1&slc_lang=fa&sid=1 Ahmed Manea Hoshan ahmedhoshan@gmail.com 1003194753284600911 1003194753284600911 Yes Ph.D, Department of English, College of Arts, University of Basrah