Information Structure in Spoken Arabic (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Owens, Jonathan; Elgibali, Alaa

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135968403
• Artikelnr.: 43820520

Autorenporträt

Jonathan Owens is Professor of Arabic Linguistics at Bayreuth University, Germany. He has published extensively on many aspects of Arabic linguistics; his most recent publications include Arabic as a Minority Language and A Linguistic History of Arabic. Alaa Elgibali is Professor of Arabic and Linguistics at the University of Maryland, USA. He is the author of several seminal publications, including Arabic as a First Language: A study in language acquisition and development, and is associate editor of the four-volume Encyclopedia of Arabic Language and Linguistics.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Explaining Null and Overt Subjects in Spoken Arabic 2. Word Order and
Textual Function in Gulf Arabic 3. Information Structure in the Najdi
Dialects 4. Word Order in Egyptian Arabic: Form and Function 5. The
Information Structure of Existential Sentences in Egyptian Arabic 6. The
Pragmatics of Information Structure in Arabic: Colloquial Tautological
Expressions as a Paradigm Example 7. From Complementizer to Discourse
Marker: The Functions of 'inno in Lebanese Arabic 8. The (Absence of)
Prosodic Reflexes of Given/New Information Status in Egyptian Arabic 9.
Moroccan Arabic-French Codeswitching and Information Structure 10.
Conversation Markers in Arabic-Hausa Codeswitching: Saliency and Language
Hierarchies 11. Understatement, Euphemism, and Circumlocution in Egyptian
Arabic: Cooperation in Conversational Dissembling