Dialect, culture, and society in eastern Arabia. Volume 1, Glossary / by Clive Holes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Holes, Clive, 1948- author.

Series:

Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 1 The Near and Middle East ; 51/1.

Handbook of oriental studies. Section 1, the Near and Middle East ; Volume 51

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sociolinguistics--Bahrain.

Sociolinguistics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston ; Köln : Brill, [2001]

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

90-04-46456-5

OCLC:

191945023

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004464568 DOI