ISBN:
1-280-86845-7
,
9786610868452
,
90-474-0795-4
,
1-4337-0631-8
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (416 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
Series Statement:
Handbook of oriental studies. Section 1, the Near and Middle East, v. 51
Series Statement:
Handbuch der Orientalistik. Nahe und der Mittlere Osten ;
DDC:
306.44/095365
Keywords:
Sociolinguistics
;
Arabic language Dialects
;
Arabic language Social aspects
Abstract:
Dialect, Culture, and Society in Eastern Arabia is a three-volume study of the Arabic dialects spoken in Bahrain by its older generation in the mid-1970s, and the socio-cultural factors that produced them. Volume 1: Glossary , published in 2001, lists all the dialectal vocabulary, with extensive contextual exemplification, and cross-referenced to other lexica, which occurred in the complete set of texts recorded during fieldwork. Volume 2: Ethnographic Texts presents a selection of these texts, transcribed, annotated and translated, and with detailed background essays, covering major aspects of the pre-oil culture of the Gulf and the initial stages of the transition to the modern era: pearl diving, agriculture, communal relations, marriage, childhood, domestic life, work. Excerpts from local dialect poems concerned with these subjects are also included. Volume 3: Phonology, Morphology, Syntax, Style is based on an extensive archive of recorded material, gathered for its ethnographic as well as its purely linguistic interest.
Description / Table of Contents:
v. 1. Glossary -- v. 2. Ethnographic texts.
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
,
English
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