Mixed Styles in Spoken Arabic in Egypt

Somewhere Between Order and Chaos
Erscheinungsjahr 2006
ISBN: 978-90-04-14986-1
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 48, 482 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 1027 g

Reihe: Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics

This volume deals with the linguistic behaviour of Egyptian academics in a specific setting: the panel presentation - assumed to represent a discourse genre, to which speakers will respond with some kind of similar stylistic norm, reflected in linguistic choices among variants of a feature. The features selected for investigation are: complementizers, demonstratives, negation, relatives, and pronoun suffixation - all of which have binary variants in the two basic codes available to the speaker, the standard variety and the vernacular. The use of the variants is discussed for each speaker and across speakers, demonstrating certain patterns of distribution (order), but also a high degree of variable usage (chaos). The investigation is set in a wider comparative sociolinguistic framework.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mejdell, Gunvor

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Semantik & Pragmatik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

CONTENTS

Preface

Chapter One: Arabic and the Issue of Standard Language

Chapter Two: Intermediate Forms—‘Mixed Styles’

Chapter Three: Variants of Complementizers

Chapter Four: Demonstratives

Chapter Five: The Expression of Negation

Chapter Six: The Relative Phrase

Chapter Seven: Pronoun Suffixation

Chapter Eight: Results, Interpretation, and Conclusions

Appendix 1: Sequential presentation of variants
Appendix 2: Transcribed text
Appendix 3: Translation of text

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Gunvor Mejdell, Dr. philos. (2005), University of Oslo, Associate Professor of Arabic Language and Culture. Her publications are mainly in the field of sociolinguistics, but also include contributions on Arabic literary and cultural issues.