Dialect, Culture, and Society in Eastern Arabia, Volume 2 Ethnographic Texts

Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-90-04-46454-4
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, 354 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 702 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Holes, Clive

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Dialektologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Einzelne Sprachen & Sprachfamilien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

General Introduction
Acknowledgements
Volume II: Ethnographic Texts
Introduction: texts and text types
Map 1 and key
Map 2 and key
Index of Speakers and Texts
Language Notes
Abbreviations and Conventions
References
Chapter 1: Pearl Diving
Chapter 2: Agriculture
Chapter 3: Communal Relations
Chapter 4: Marriage
Chapter 5: Domestic Life
Chapter 6: Childhood
Chapter 7: Work
Chapter 8: SawAlif
Appendices
1A Hull shapes of pearling boats
1B Boat parts
1C Sails, masts, and rigging
Addenda and Corrigenda to Vol I

Über Autor(innen)

Clive D. Holes, Ph.D. (1981) in Linguistics, University of Cambridge, is Professor Emeritus for the Study of the Contemporary Arab World at the University of Oxford. He has published widely on the Arabic language and its dialects, and is a Fellow of the British Academy.