Bedouin, Village and Urban Arabic

An Ecolinguistic Study
Erscheinungsjahr 1992
ISBN: 978-90-04-09627-1
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 18, 168 Seiten, Format (B × H): 164 mm x 243 mm, Gewicht: 472 g

Reihe: Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics

As a culture area the Arab world has had different ecological structures — nomadic (bedouin) and sedentary (rural and urban) — with parallel linguistic systems. Throughout the long history of the Arabic language, the development of transitional stages has generated linguistic correlates in Arabic dialects. The notion "ecolinguistics," combined and reinforced with the concepts of "compatibility" and "lexical diffusion," is introduced in this study to identify such a sociolinguistic change. The domain of change for this ecolinguistic variation is the extended family in which the middle generation develops new lexical items by the application of ecolinguistic rules. This research also provides a description of these rules which speakers generate as they gradually acquire an awareness of the social parameters for their use.
The theoretical framework and the putative results of this study are offered to stimulate further research in the causation and implementation of linguistic change, especially in terms of quantitative analyses of ecolinguistic variation and lexical diffusion in the Arabic language.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cadora, F J

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Sprachsoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Soziolinguistik

Über Autor(innen)

Frederic J. Cadora is Professor of Arabic Studies since 1983 at the Ohio State University, and Chairman of the Department of Judaic and Near Eastern Languages and Literatures since 1982. He has published numerous books, textbooks, articles and reviews on Arabic linguistics.