TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mejdell,Gunvor
TI  - Mixed styles in spoken Arabic in Egypt: somewhere between order and chaos 
T2  - Studies in Semitic languages and linguistics,
SN  - 9789047408987
AV  - PJ6773 .M45 2006
U1  - 492.7/70962 22
PY  - 2006///
CY  - Leiden, Boston
PB  - Brill
KW  - Arabic language
KW  - Dialects
KW  - Research
KW  - Egypt
KW  - Diglossia (Linguistics)
KW  - Case studies
KW  - Standardization
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 468-479) and index; Preliminary Material -- ARABIC AND THE ISSUE OF STANDARD LANGUAGE -- INTERMEDIATE FORMS—‘MIXED STYLES’ -- VARIANTS OF COMPLEMENTIZERS WITH THE EMBEDDING OF NOUN CLAUSES (“THAT”-CLAUSES) -- DEMONSTRATIVES -- THE EXPRESSION OF NEGATION -- THE RELATIVE PHRASE -- PRONOUN SUFFIXATION -- RESULTS, INTERPRETATION, AND CONCLUSIONS -- SEQUENTIAL PRESENTATION OF VARIANTS -- TRANSCRIBED TEXT -- TRANSLATION OF TEXT -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX; Available to subscribing member institutions only
N2  - This volume deals with the linguistic behaviour of Egyptian academics in a specific setting: the panel presentation - assumed to represent a discourse genre, to which speakers will respond with some kind of similar stylistic norm, reflected in linguistic choices among variants of a feature. The features selected for investigation are: complementizers, demonstratives, negation, relatives, and pronoun suffixation - all of which have binary variants in the two basic codes available to the speaker, the standard variety and the vernacular. The use of the variants is discussed for each speaker and across speakers, demonstrating certain patterns of distribution (order), but also a high degree of variable usage (chaos). The investigation is set in a wider comparative sociolinguistic framework
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789047408987
ER  -