| Dialect, Culture, and Society in Eastern Arabia, Volume 3: Phonology, Morphology, Syntax, Style Contributor(s): Holes, Clive (Author) |
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ISBN: 9004302638 ISBN-13: 9789004302631 Publisher: Brill OUR PRICE: $210.90 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: October 2015 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Reference - Religion | Islam - General |
| Series: Handbook of Oriental Studies: Section 1; The Near and Middle East |
| Physical Information: 1.1" H x 6.3" W x 9.2" (1.45 lbs) 520 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. The present Volume III: Phonology, Morphology, Syntax, Style, is based on an extensive archive of recorded material, gathered for its ethnographic as well as its purely linguistic interest. Volume I: 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 II: Ethnographic Texts, published in 2005, 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. |