商品簡介
Contributors identified only by name look at dialects in the Arab language from the perspectives of historical linguistics, descriptive dialectology, contact phenomena, social dialectology, and code mixing. Among their topics are Arabic as a model for understanding the history of Aramaic, the Arabic dialect of a Sawawi community in northern Oman, the dialect of the Euphrates Bedouin, loan words in Arabic and the DO-construction, dialect contact in Jeddah, the unhelpful dichotomy of urban versus rural in dialectology, and examining code choice in advertisements in Egypt. Annotation c2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
作者簡介
Enam Al-Wer, Ph.D. (1991) in Linguistics, University of Essex, is a lecturer in Linguistics at the University of Essex. She has published widely on issues in sociolinguistics and dialect contact. She is the author of Understanding Sociolinguistics (forthcoming, Arnold, 2008) and co-authored Arabic in the City (Curzon Routledge, 2008)Rudolf de Jong, Ph.D. (1999), University of Amsterdam, is a researcher of Arabic dialects. He has published on several Arabic dialects, including A Grammar of the Bedouin Dialects of the Northern Sinai Littoral. Bridging the Linguistic Gap between the Eastern and Western Arab World (Brill, 2000).
