Folk Stories and Personal Narratives in Palestinian Spoken Arabic

A Cultural and Linguistic Study
1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-349-45951-3
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 256 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 346 g

By analysing the folk stories and personal narratives of a cross-section of Palestinians, Sirhan offers a detailed study of how content and sociolinguistic variables affect a narrator's language use and linguistic behaviour. This book will be of interest to anyone engaged with narrative discourse, gender discourse, Arabic studies and linguistics.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sirhan, N.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Soziolinguistik
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Allgemeines

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction 2. The Oral-Written Divide 3. The Lore and Tales of the Folk 4. Narratives of Personal Experience 5. The Arabic Language 6. Cultural Characteristics of the texts 7. Linguistic features of the Oral Narratives 8. The Texts 9. Observations and Conclusions

Über Autor(innen)

Nadia R. Sirhan is a freelance Arabic translator and tutor. She completed her PhD in Arabic Linguistics in 2011 at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London University, UK.