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Dialect, culture, and society in eastern Arabia / by Clive Holes.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Holes, Clive, 1948-
- Series:
- Handbuch der Orientalistik. Nahe und der Mittlere Osten ; Erste Abteilung, 51. Bd.
- Handbook of oriental studies. Section 1, the Near and Middle East, 0169-9423 ; v. 51
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sociolinguistics--Bahrain.
- Sociolinguistics.
- Arabic language--Dialects--Bahrain.
- Arabic language.
- Arabic language--Social aspects--Bahrain.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (416 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Dialect, culture, & society in eastern Arabia
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2001-<2005>
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Dialect, Culture, and Society in Eastern Arabia is a three-volume study of the Arabic dialects spoken in Bahrain by its older generation in the mid-1970s, and the socio-cultural factors that produced them. Volume 1: Glossary , published in 2001, lists all the dialectal vocabulary, with extensive contextual exemplification, and cross-referenced to other lexica, which occurred in the complete set of texts recorded during fieldwork. Volume 2: Ethnographic Texts presents a selection of these texts, transcribed, annotated and translated, and with detailed background essays, covering major aspects of the pre-oil culture of the Gulf and the initial stages of the transition to the modern era: pearl diving, agriculture, communal relations, marriage, childhood, domestic life, work. Excerpts from local dialect poems concerned with these subjects are also included. Volume 3: Phonology, Morphology, Syntax, Style is based on an extensive archive of recorded material, gathered for its ethnographic as well as its purely linguistic interest.
- Contents:
- v. 1. Glossary
- v. 2. Ethnographic texts.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-280-86845-7
- 9786610868452
- 90-474-0795-4
- 1-4337-0631-8
- OCLC:
- 171561881
- Publisher Number:
- 10.1163/9789047407959 DOI
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