Dialect, Culture, and Society in Eastern Arabia, Volume 3: Phonology, Morphology, Syntax, Style

Download or read book Dialect, Culture, and Society in Eastern Arabia, Volume 3: Phonology, Morphology, Syntax, Style written by Clive Holes and published by Handbook of Oriental Studies. This book was released on 2021-04-22 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dialect, Culture, and Society in Eastern Arabiais 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 Textspresents 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, Styleis based on an extensive archive of recorded material, gathered for its ethnographic as well as its purely linguistic interest.