UID:
almahu_9949926711402882
Format:
1 online resource (xxiv, 278 pages) :
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illustrations (some colour)
ISBN:
9781805113393
Series Statement:
Cambridge Semitic languages and cultures vol. 28
Content:
"This edited volume brings together a diverse and rich set of contributions on the Arabian Peninsula. Ranging from history, field linguistics, and cultural studies these essays address the diversity of languages, ways of life, and natural environments that have marked the region throughout its history. The book stems from the intellectual exchange and collaboration fostered by a virtual workshop that met regularly in 2020-21 and which drew participants from within and beyond the academy. The contributions gathered in this volume highlight the need for a better understanding of a region that hosts a vast amount of culturally and linguistically diverse material, often in a precarious state of conservation. Diversity Across the Arabian Peninsula argues for the importance of holistic, community-based, and interdisciplinary approaches to linguistic endangerment and deep social and cultural changes: there is no documentation of language without attention to language use, the material lifeworld and its ecology, and social and cultural setting. Such research is enriched and made more impactful through collaboration with communities and scholars from the Global South. The essays in this volume thus spearhead a contextualized study of South Arabian linguistic varieties and their connection with the natural and cultural world they inhabit."--Publisher's website.
Note:
At foot of cover: University of Cambridge, Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies.
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At head of front cover: Cambridge Semitic languages and cultures.
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Available through Open Book Publishers.
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The Dhaid Oasis: Onomastic Investigations in Northern Emirati Villages / Mark Shockley -- An Ecolinguistic Approach to Kumzari: Ecocultural Assemblages of Language and Landscape in Kumzar / Emily Jane O'Dell -- Three Shehret Texts: Building With Flora / Janet C.E. Watson, Andrea Boom, Amir Azad Adli Al-Kathiri, Miranda Morris -- Aspects Of The Phonology And Morphology Of Saudi Varieties Of Arabic / Mamdouh Alhuwaykim, Stuart Davis, Wafi Alshammari, Musa Alahmari -- Distal and Proximal Relative Pronouns in Faifi Arabic / Abdullah Alfaifi Verbal Noun Formation in Mehri / Anton Kungl -- Technological Support For Endangered/Minority Languages: Creating Cross-Platform Keyboard Layouts For Modern South Arabian Languages / Hongwei Zhang.
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Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Language:
English
URL:
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