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

Clive Holes

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Brill
22 April 2021

Dialect, slang & jargon

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
Dimensions: Height: 235mm, Width: 155mm, Spine: 24mm
Weight: 702g
ISBN: 9789004464544
ISBN 10: 9004464549
Pages: 416
Publication Date: 22 April 2021
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , A / AS level , Further / Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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.