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Information structure in spoken Arabic /
This book explores speakersʹ 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 an...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
2010.
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| Colección: | Routledge Arabic linguistics series.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | This book explores speakersʹ 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 leading experts in Arabic linguistics, the studies evaluate the ways in which relevant parts of a message in spoken Arabic are encoded, highlighted or obscured. It covers a broad range of issues from across the Arabic-speaking world, including the discourse-sensitive properties of word order variation, the use of intonation for information focusing, the differential role of native Arabic and second languages to encode information in a code-switching context, and the need for cultural contextualization to understand the role of "disinformation" structure. -- Publisher description from http://www.routledge.com (Oct. 4, 2011). |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xvii, 264 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780203875834 0203875834 9781135968403 1135968403 1282733532 9781282733534 9786612733536 6612733535 |