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1 online resource (xii, 214 pages) : illustrations |
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Library of Arabic linguistics ; monograph number 7 |
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Library of Arabic linguistics ; monograph no. 7.
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| Contents |
Cover; Language Variation and Change in a Modernising Arab State: The Case of Bahrain; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; Transcription and transliteration systems; 1 Variation in spoken Arabic; 1.1 The traditional dialectological approach; 1.2 Studies of interdialectal conversation and the stylistic continuum; 1.3 The present work; 2 Bahrain: the social and cultural background; 2.1 Geographical and historical sketch; 2.2 Social structure: sect and ethnicity; 2.3 Linguistic consequences of social change; 3 Data collection methods; 3.1 Selection of speakers; 3.2 Interview methods |
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3.3 Comparability of data between groups of speakers3.4 Intra-speaker variability: contextual styles; 3.5 Presentation of the analysis of variation; 4 The social distribution of some BA phonemes; 4.1 The linguistic background; 4.2 The dialect of the 'Arab; 4.3 The dialects of the Bahārna: the village/urban split; 4.4 Summary of consonantal correspondences; 5 Phonemic variation: analysis and interpretation; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 Measurement of variation; 5.3 Type 1 variables: the data base; 5.4 Type 2 variables: the data bases for PV3 and PV4 |
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5.5 Type 3 variables: the data bases for PV5 and PV65.6 Summary; 5.7 Levels of dialectalness -- 5.8 Summary; 5.9 Implicational scaling as a data-displaying device; 5.10 Interpretation of trends in the scaled data; 5.11 Inter-rule relationships; 5.12 Rule formulation: some issues raised by the data; 5.13 Summary of conclusions: 'phonemic variation'; 6 The social distribution of some BA morphophonemic patterns; 6.1 Introduction; 6.2 Socially distributed morpho-phonemic differences: some examples; 6.3 Selection of variables for investigation; 6.4 The variables; 6.5 Summary |
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7 Morphophonemic variation: analysis and interpretation7.1 Introduction; 7.2 Syllable structure and stem-type; 7.3 Analysis of quantified data; 7.4 Summary of trends in the data; 8 Morphophonemic rule formulation; 8.1 Notational problems; 8.2 Implicational scales and DMR constraints; 8.3 Implicational relationships between DMRs; 8.4 Dialect-type and social network; 8.5 Conclusions; Bibliography; Index; Glossary of technical terms |
| Summary |
""This book is a study of how the spoken Arabic of Bahrain is changing under the impact of modern education, changing patterns of employment and the influence of the media."" |
| Analysis |
Spoken Arabic language Baharnah dialect |
| Notes |
Title on added title page: al-Taghayyur al-lughawī fī dawlah ʻArabīyah mutaṭawwirah |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-207) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
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Print version record |
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Arabic language -- Dialects -- Bahrain
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Arabic language -- Dialects -- Morphology
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Arabic language -- Dialects -- Phonology
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Arabic language -- Social aspects -- Bahrain
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FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY -- Arabic.
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Arabic language -- Dialects
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Arabic language -- Dialects -- Morphology
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Arabic language -- Dialects -- Phonology
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Arabic language -- Social aspects
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Sprachwandel
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Modernisierung
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Sprachvariante
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Bahrain
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Bahrain
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Arabisch.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781136144905 |
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1136144900 |
