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

Clive Holes

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Brill
15 June 2005

Dialect, slang & jargon

Series: Dialect, Culture, and Society in Eastern Arabia

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.

By: Clive Holes
Imprint: Brill
Volume: 51/2
Dimensions: Height: 235mm, Width: 155mm, Spine: 29mm
Weight: 872g
ISBN: 9789004144941
ISBN 10: 9004144943
Series: Dialect, Culture, and Society in Eastern Arabia
Pages: 416
Publication Date: 15 June 2005
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational , A / AS level , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

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

Clive D. Holes, Ph.D. (1981) in Linguistics, University of Cambridge, is Professor 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.