Language Variation and Change in a Modernising Arab State
The Case Of Bahrain
1st Edition
Published on 5. September 2013
244 pages
978-1-136-14490-5 (ISBN)
Description
First published in 1987. This is monograph 7 in the Library of Arabic Linguistics. The author gives a prime exponent of the Labovian sociolinguistic approach in the Arabic field and this present study is the culmination of years of work on the dialects of Bahrain, following his four previous articles on the subject. He takes account of variability in the language of individual speakers both in the direction of the spoken dialects and in the direction of Classical Arabic and his approach takes into account factors of nationality, religious group affiliation, and occupational class in the selection of linguistic variables and is thereby squarely in the camp of the sociolinguists.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
ISBN-13
978-1-136-14490-5 (9781136144905)
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Content
PREFACE, ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS, TRANSCRIPTION AND TRANSLITERATION SYSTEMS, 1. VARIATION IN SPOKEN ARABIC, 2. BAHRAIN: THE SOCIAL AND CULTURAL BACKGROUND, 3. DATA COLLECTION METHODS, 4. THE SOCIAL DISTRIBUTION OF SOME BA PHONEMES, 5. PHONEMIC VARIATION: ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATION, 6. THE SOCIAL DISTRIBUTION OF SOME BA MORPHOPHONEMIC PATTERNS, 7. MORPHOPHONEMIC VARIATION: ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATION, 8. MORPHOPHONEMIC RULE FORMULATION, BIBLIOGRAPHY, INDEX, GLOSSARY OF TECHNICAL TERMS
