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

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

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 con...

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Main Author: Holes, Clive (Author)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden; Boston : BRILL, 2005.

Series: Brill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495.
Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 1 The Near and Middle East ; 51/2.

Subjects:

Arabic (Language) > Dialects > Bahrain.
Arabic (Language) > Social aspect > Bahrain.
Sociolinguistics.

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Call Number: P4045

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Table of Contents:
  • General Introduction
  • Acknowledgements
  • Volume II: Ethnographic Texts
  • Introduction: texts and text types
  • Map 1 and key
  • Map 2 and key
  • Index of Speakers and Texts
  • Language Notes
  • Abbreviations and Conventions
  • References
  • Chapter 1: Pearl Diving
  • Chapter 2: Agriculture
  • Chapter 3: Communal Relations
  • Chapter 4: Marriage
  • Chapter 5: Domestic Life
  • Chapter 6: Childhood
  • Chapter 7: Work
  • Chapter 8: SawAlif
  • Appendices
  • 1A Hull shapes of pearling boats
  • 1B Boat parts
  • 1C Sails, masts, and rigging
  • Addenda and Corrigenda to Vol I.