Information structure in spoken Arabic

by Elgibali, Alaa Owens, Jonathan

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Title Statements

Full title :Information structure in spoken Arabic / edited by Jonathan Owens and Alaa Elgibali.

Summary

This book explores speakersʹ intentions, and the structural and pragmatic resources they employ, in spoken Arabic -- which is different in many essential respects from literary Arabic. Based on new empirical findings from across the Arabic world this book elucidates the many ways in which context and the goals and intentions of the speaker inform and constrain linguistic structure in spoken Arabic. This is the first book to provide an in-depth analysis of information structure in spoken Arabic, which is based on language as it is actually used, not on normatively-given grammar. Written by leading experts in Arabic linguistics, the studies evaluate the ways in which relevant parts of a message in spoken Arabic are encoded, highlighted or obscured. It covers a broad range of issues from across the Arabic-speaking world, including the discourse-sensitive properties of word order variation, the use of intonation for information focusing, the differential role of native Arabic and second languages to encode information in a code-switching context, and the need for cultural contextualization to understand the role of "disinformation" structure. -- Publisher description from http://www.routledge.com (Oct. 4, 2011).

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2010.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Routledge
Place of Publication:London
Language:eng
Publication Date:2010.

The Physical Object

Description:xvii, 264 pages : : illustrations, maps ; : 25 cm.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780415778442, 0415778441, 9780203875834, 0203875834
oclc:ocn282971539
LC Classification:PJ6161
Dewey Decimal:492.701/41

The once and future study of information structure in Arabic / Jonathan Owens -- Explaining Ø and overt subjects in spoken Arabic / Jonathan Owens, William Young, Trent Rockwood, David Mehall, Robin Dodsworth -- Word order and textual function in Gulf Arabic / Clive Holes -- Information structure in the Najdi dialects / Bruce Ingham -- Word order in Egyptian Arabic / Malcolm Edwards -- The information structure of existential sentences in Egyptian Arabic / Mustafa Mughazy -- The pragmatics of information structure in Arabic / Mohammed Farghal -- From complementizer to discourse marker / Marie Aimée Germanos -- The (absence of) prosodic reflexes of given/new information status in Egyptian Arabic / Sam Hellmuth -- Moroccan Arabic-French codeswitching and information structure / Karima Ziamari -- Conversation markers in Arabic-Hausa codeswitching / Jonathan Owens, Jidda Hassan -- Understatement, euphemism, and circumlocution in Egyptian Arabic / David Wilmsen.

Subjects

17.61 pragmatics 18.73 modern Arabic language Arabe (Langue) -- Analyse du discours Arabic language Arabic language -- -Discourse analysis Arabic language -- Spoken Arabic Arabisch Changement de code (linguistique) Code switching (Linguistics) Codewisseling Gesprochene Sprache Pragmatics Pragmatiek Pragmatique