| Description |
1 online resource (xvii, 264 pages) : illustrations, maps. |
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Routledge Arabic linguistics series
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Routledge Arabic linguistics series.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
The once and future study of information structure in Arabic / Jonathan Owens -- Explaining Ø and overt subjects in spoken Arabic / Jonathan Owens, William Young, Trent Rockwood, David Mehall, Robin Dodsworth -- Word order and textual function in Gulf Arabic / Clive Holes -- Information structure in the Najdi dialects / Bruce Ingham -- Word order in Egyptian Arabic / Malcolm Edwards -- The information structure of existential sentences in Egyptian Arabic / Mustafa Mughazy -- The pragmatics of information structure in Arabic / Mohammed Farghal -- From complementizer to discourse marker / Marie Aimée Germanos -- The (absence of) prosodic reflexes of given/new information status in Egyptian Arabic / Sam Hellmuth -- Moroccan Arabic-French codeswitching and information structure / Karima Ziamari -- Conversation markers in Arabic-Hausa codeswitching / Jonathan Owens, Jidda Hassan -- Understatement, euphemism, and circumlocution in Egyptian Arabic / David Wilmsen. |
| Summary |
This book explores speakersʹ intentions, and the structural and pragmatic resources they employ, in spoken Arabic -- which is different in many essential respects from literary Arabic. Based on new empirical findings from across the Arabic world this book elucidates the many ways in which context and the goals and intentions of the speaker inform and constrain linguistic structure in spoken Arabic. This is the first book to provide an in-depth analysis of information structure in spoken Arabic, which is based on language as it is actually used, not on normatively-given grammar. Written by leading experts in Arabic linguistics, the studies evaluate the ways in which relevant parts of a message in spoken Arabic are encoded, highlighted or obscured. It covers a broad range of issues from across the Arabic-speaking world, including the discourse-sensitive properties of word order variation, the use of intonation for information focusing, the differential role of native Arabic and second languages to encode information in a code-switching context, and the need for cultural contextualization to understand the role of "disinformation" structure. -- Publisher description from http://www.routledge.com (Oct. 4, 2011). |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Arabic language -- Spoken Arabic.
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Arabic language -- Spoken Arabic. |
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Arabic language -- Discourse analysis.
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Arabic language -- Discourse analysis. |
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Arabic language. |
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Pragmatics.
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Pragmatics. |
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Code switching (Linguistics)
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Code switching (Linguistics) |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Owens, Jonathan.
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Elgibali, Alaa.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Information structure in spoken Arabic. London ; New York : Routledge, 2010 (DLC) 2008053673 (OCoLC)282971539 |
| ISBN |
9780203875834 (ebook) |
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0203875834 (ebook) |
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9781135968403 (electronic book) |
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1135968403 (electronic book) |
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9780415778442 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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0415778441 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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