Dialect, Culture, and Society in Eastern Arabia


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A three-volume study of the Arabic dialects spoken in Bahrain by its older generation in the mid 1970s, and the socio-cultural factors that produced them.




Dialect, Culture, and Society in Eastern Arabia, Volume 1 Glossary


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Dialect, Culture, and Society in Eastern Arabia, Volume I, Glossary is a comprehensive vocabulary of the 'uneducated' Bahraini Arabic dialects, drawn from a data-base of hundreds of hours of natural conversation gathered in the mid-1970s.







Arabian Diversions


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A chronological account of Anglo-Egyptian political relations from 1947 to 1956 - a crucial point in more than 70 years of British involvement in Egypt for they marked a turning-point in political relations.







Dialect, Culture, and Society in Eastern Arabia


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"Dialect, Culture, and Society in Eastern Arabia," Volume I, "Glossary" is a comprehensive vocabulary of the 'uneducated' Bahraini Arabic dialects, drawn from a data-base of hundreds of hours of natural conversation gathered in the mid-1970s.




Arabic Dialect Studies


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Language and Change in the Arab Middle East


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In this study of the rise of modern Arabic, Ayalon examines 19th-century linguistic change in the Eastern Arab world, describing how the language responded to the infiltration of Western politics, technology, and culture. Focusing on the realm of political discourse, Ayalon looks at a wide array of evidence--local chronicles, travel accounts, translations of European writings, Arab political treatises, newspapers and periodicals, and dictionaries--to show how shifts in the color, tone, and meaning of the Arab vocabulary reflected a new socio-political and cultural reality.




Approaches to Arabic Dialects


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This volume brings together 22 contributions to the study of Arabic dialects, from the Maghreb to Iraq by authors, who are all well-known for their work in this field. It underscores the importance of different theoretical approaches to the study of dialects, developing new frameworks for the study of variation and change in the dialects, while presenting new data on dialects (e.g., of Jaffa, Southern Sinai, Nigeria, South Morocco and Mosul) and cross-dialectal comparisons (e.g., on the feminine gender and on relative clauses). This collection is presented to Manfred Woidich, one of the most eminent scholars in the field of Arabic dialectology.