Idioms represent a fascinating linguistic phenomenon that has captured the attention of many linguists for decades. This corpus-based study of idioms in Modern Standard Arabic sheds light on their intricate nature, establishes the major patterns of their linguistic behaviour, and provides explanations for these patterns.
Adopting a descriptive framework, the study addresses two main issues with regard to the discursive behaviour of idioms: the discursive functions that they perform and the ways in which they contribute to the cohesion of their texts. Examining primary data with...
Idioms represent a fascinating linguistic phenomenon that has captured the attention of many linguists for decades. This corpus-based study of idio...
Offering insight into linguistic practices resulting from different kinds of Israeli-Palestinian contact, this book examines a specific conceptualisation of the link between the political and economic contexts and human practices, and between structure and agency.
These contexts provide the setting for power relations between Israelis and Palestinians which give rise to a variety of practices of borrowing. Among these practices is the borrowing of Hebrew words and phrases for use in the Palestinians Arabic speech. The use of Hebrew demarcates in-groups, signals aspirations to a modern...
Offering insight into linguistic practices resulting from different kinds of Israeli-Palestinian contact, this book examines a specific conceptuali...
This edited collection, containing a broad selection of case studies from across the Arab world, examines how urbanization is causing language change in major Arab cities.
This edited collection, containing a broad selection of case studies from across the Arab world, examines how urbanization is causing language change ...
This book explores speakers' intentions, and the structural and pragmatic resources they employ, in spoken Arabic - which is different in many essential respects from literary Arabic. Based on new empirical findings from across the Arabic world this book elucidates the many ways in which context and the goals and intentions of the speaker inform and constrain linguistic structure in spoken Arabic. This is the first book to provide an in-depth analysis of information structure in spoken Arabic, which is based on language as it is actually used, not on normatively-given grammar. Written by...
This book explores speakers' intentions, and the structural and pragmatic resources they employ, in spoken Arabic - which is different in many essenti...
Islamism in Egypt is more diversified in terms of its sociology and ideology than is usually assumed. Through linguistic analysis of Islamist rhetoric, this book sheds light upon attitudes towards other Muslims, religious authority and secular society. Examining the rhetoric of three central Islamist figures in Egypt today - Yusuf al-Qaradawi, Amr Khalid and Muhammad Imara - the author investigates the connection between Islamist rhetoric and the social and political structures of the Islamic field in Egypt. Highlighting the diversity of Islamist rhetoric, the author argues that differences...
Islamism in Egypt is more diversified in terms of its sociology and ideology than is usually assumed. Through linguistic analysis of Islamist rhetoric...
