Information Structure In Spoken Arabic

Author : Jonathan Owens
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135968403
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Information Structure in Spoken Arabic written by Jonathan Owens and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-03 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spoken Arabic is different in many respects from literary Arabic. This book is concerned with speakers’ intentions and the structural and pragmatic resources they employ. Based on new empirical findings from across the Arabic world this work will be of interest to both students and researchers.

Author : Jonathan Owens
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113596839X
Total Pages : 474 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Information Structure in Spoken Arabic written by Jonathan Owens and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-03-01 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores speakers’ 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 focussing, the differential role of native Arabic and second languages to encode information in a codeswitching context, and the need for cultural contextualization to understand the role of "disinformation" structure. The studies combine a strong empirical basis with methodological and theoretical issues drawn from a number of different perspectives including pragmatic theory, language contact, instrumental prosodic analysis and (de-)grammaticalization theory. The introductory chapter embeds the project within the deeper Arabic grammatical tradition, as elaborated by the eleventh century grammarian Abdul Qahir al-Jurjani. This book provides an invaluable comprehensive introduction to an important, yet understudied, component of spoken Arabic.

Author : Enam Al-Wer
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317525000
Total Pages : 407 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Routledge Handbook of Arabic Sociolinguistics written by Enam Al-Wer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-06-13 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Handbook of Arabic Sociolinguistics comprises 22 chapters encompassing various aspects in the study of Arabic dialects within their sociolinguistic context. This is a novel volume, which not only includes the traditional topics in variationist sociolinguistics, but also links the sociolinguistic enterprise to the history of Arabic and to applications of sociolinguistics beyond the theoretical treatment of variation. Newly formed trends, with an eye to future research, form the backbone of this volume. With contributions from an international pool of researchers, this volume will be of interest to scholars and students of Arabic sociolinguistics, as well as to linguists interested in a concise, rounded view of the field.

Author : James Dickins
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000769747
Total Pages : 175 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Thematic Structure and Para-Syntax: Arabic as a Case Study written by James Dickins and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-03-05 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thematic Structure and Para-Syntax: Arabic as a Case Study presents a structural analysis of Arabic, providing an alternative to the traditional notions of theme and rheme. Taking Arabic as a case study, this book claims that approaches to thematic structure propounded in universalist linguistic theories, of which Hallidayan systemic functional linguistics is taken as an illustrative example, are profoundly wrong. It argues that in order to produce an analysis of thematic structure and similar phenomena which is not undermined by its own theoretical presuppositions, it is necessary to remove such notions from the domain of linguistic and semiotic theory. The book initially focuses on Sudanese Arabic, because this allows for a beautifully clear exposition of general principles, before applying these principles to Modern Standard Arabic, and some other Arabic varieties. This book will be of interest to scholars in Arabic linguistics, linguistic theory, and information structure.

Author : Ali A. Alzayid
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 902725818X
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Arabic Dislocation written by Ali A. Alzayid and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2022-03-15 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the early years of generative grammar (Chomsky 1977, inter alia), the phenomenology of dislocation has proved to be a fertile area of research. This, however, has not been the case for Modern Standard Arabic (MSA), and hence this thorough monograph intends to fill this lacuna. Three aspects of this linguistic phenomenon stand out: the taxonomy of possible dislocated configurations, syntax and interpretation. Though the structure in itself has been extensively studied in various languages, including varieties of spoken Arabic, this monograph shows that MSA presents properties that set it apart from known varieties and cannot be captured by an extension or modification of existing analyses. Moreover, existing analyses are not fully satisfactory as there are open analytical questions regarding the interpretation and syntactic analysis of dislocation structures crosslinguistically. Particularly, the optimal path to follow concerning dislocation structures in MSA is to argue for the claim that contrast, as an information-structural notion, underlies the interpretation of dislocated elements, and these elements are best syntactically analyzed as being involved in a bisentential configuration, contra monoclausal approaches to dislocation. This monograph should be relevant to anyone with an interest in the Arabic language, and also to syntacticians and typologists with an interest in sentence structure.

Author : Lombezzi, Letizia
Publisher : Prensas de la Universidad de Zaragoza
ISBN 13 : 8413400406
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Contents and Methods for Teaching Spoken Arabic written by Lombezzi, Letizia and published by Prensas de la Universidad de Zaragoza. This book was released on 2020-02-06 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Este libro proporciona un marco teórico y diversas pautas para aplicar la dialectología a la enseñanza, situándose en el ámbito de la lingüística aplicada. El desafío radica en llevar la dialectología más allá de la investigación descriptiva. ¿Por qué hay que promocionar el árabe hablado? ¿Cómo pueden los alumnos convertirse en hablantes? ¿Podemos diseñar plantillas morfológicas aplicables a diferentes variedades? El trabajo responde a todo ello a través de sus siete capítulos, y proporciona cuatro planes didácticos basados en teorías e investigaciones actualizadas.

Author : Dilworth B. Parkinson
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027290938
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics written by Dilworth B. Parkinson and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2008-10-09 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains a selection of reviewed and revised papers from the twenty-first Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics, which was held on March 2–3, 2007, at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. The papers in this volume deal with a variety of topics in Arabic linguistics with a notable number of them emphasizing pragmatic aspects. The papers here included place a high value on the presentation of authentic data and explore different approaches in their analysis.

Author : Iriarte Díez, Ana
Publisher : Prensas de la Universidad de Zaragoza
ISBN 13 : 8413404134
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Communicative Grammatical Function of Cognate Infinitives in Lebanese Arabic written by Iriarte Díez, Ana and published by Prensas de la Universidad de Zaragoza. This book was released on 2022-01-28 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cognate Infinitives have been identified and described as productive linguistic features within Arabic language and along the Semitic continuum. However, their full range of function remains largely unstudied in the spoken varieties of Arabic. This study proposes a new grammatical model for the analysis and description of Cognate Infinitives in Lebanese Arabic that accounts for this feature’s semantic, informational, affective and social functions. It suggests that Cognate Infinitives function as focus markers and are efficient communicative tools for a variety of attention management actions as well as for ‘face’ management strategies. The findings of this study therefore replace the omnipresent notion of “adverbial emphasis” with a definition of “focus” that comprises both informational and affective factors.

Author : Zeki Majeed Hassan
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027283222
Total Pages : 379 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Instrumental Studies in Arabic Phonetics written by Zeki Majeed Hassan and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2011-12-21 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brought together in this volume are fourteen studies using a range of modern instrumental methods – acoustic and articulatory – to investigate the phonetics of several North African and Middle Eastern varieties of Arabic. Topics covered include syllable structure, quantity, assimilation, guttural and emphatic consonants and their pharyngeal and laryngeal mechanisms, intonation, and language acquisition. In addition to presenting new data and new descriptions and interpretations, a key aim of the volume is to demonstrate the depth of objective analysis that instrumental methods can enable researchers to achieve. A special feature of many chapters is the use of more than one type of instrumentation to give different perspectives on phonetic properties of Arabic speech which have fascinated scholars since medieval times. The volume will be of interest to phoneticians, phonologists and Arabic dialectologists, and provides a link between traditional qualitative accounts of spoken Arabic and modern quantitative methods of instrumental phonetic analysis.

Author : Joseph E. Aoun
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521650178
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Syntax of Arabic written by Joseph E. Aoun and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to Arabic syntax covering a broad variety of topics including argument structure, negation, tense, agreement phenomena, and resumption. The discussion of each topic sums up the key research results and provides new points of departure for further research.