Mixed styles in spoken Arabic in Egypt : : somewhere between order and chaos / / by Gunvor Mejdell.
This volume deals with the linguistic behaviour of Egyptian academics in a specific setting: the panel presentation - assumed to represent a discourse genre, to which speakers will respond with some kind of similar stylistic norm, reflected in linguistic choices among variants of a feature. The feat...
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| Superior document: | Studies in Semitic languages and linguistics, 48 |
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| Year of Publication: | 2006 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Studies in Semitic languages and linguistics ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (495 p.) |
| Notes: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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| Summary: | This volume deals with the linguistic behaviour of Egyptian academics in a specific setting: the panel presentation - assumed to represent a discourse genre, to which speakers will respond with some kind of similar stylistic norm, reflected in linguistic choices among variants of a feature. The features selected for investigation are: complementizers, demonstratives, negation, relatives, and pronoun suffixation - all of which have binary variants in the two basic codes available to the speaker, the standard variety and the vernacular. The use of the variants is discussed for each speaker and across speakers, demonstrating certain patterns of distribution (order), but also a high degree of variable usage (chaos). The investigation is set in a wider comparative sociolinguistic framework. |
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| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [468]-479) and index. |
| ISBN: | 1281399000 9786611399009 9047408985 |
| ISSN: | 0081-8461 ; |
| Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
| Statement of Responsibility: | by Gunvor Mejdell. |