Bedouin, Village and Urban Arabic: An Ecolinguistic Study (Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics)

Bedouin, Village and Urban Arabic: An Ecolinguistic Study (Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics)

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Book Description
As a culture area the Arab world has had different ecological structures -- nomadic (bedouin) and sedentary (rural and urban) -- with parallel linguistic systems. Throughout the long history of the Arabic language, the development of transitional stages has generated linguistic correlates in Arabic dialects. The notion "ecolinguistics," combined and reinforced with the concepts of "compatibility" and "lexical diffusion," is introduced in this study to identify such a sociolinguistic change. The domain of change for this ecolinguistic variation is the extended family in which the middle generation develops new lexical items by the application of ecolinguistic rules. This research also provides a description of these rules which speakers generate as they gradually acquire an awareness of the social parameters for their use. The theoretical framework and the putative results of this study are offered to stimulate further research in the causation and implementation of linguistic change, especially in terms of quantitative analyses of ecolinguistic variation and lexical diffusion in the Arabic language.

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Text: English, Arabic

Bedouin, Village and Urban Arabic: An Ecolinguistic Study (Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics),F. J. Cadora,Brill Academic Publishers,9004096272,Arabic,Arabic Language,Bedouins,Dialects,Foreign Language - Dictionaries / Phrase Books,Interior Design - General,Languages,Middle Eastern,Sociology,Variation,Sociolinguistics

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