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Clive Holes

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Description:"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 I: 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 II: Ethnographic Texts" presents 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 III" will comprise a detailed study of the linguistic structure of the dialects in their regional context.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Dialect, Culture, and Society in Eastern Arabia, Volume 2: Ethnographic Texts. To get started finding Dialect, Culture, and Society in Eastern Arabia, Volume 2: Ethnographic Texts, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: "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 I: 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 II: Ethnographic Texts" presents 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 III" will comprise a detailed study of the linguistic structure of the dialects in their regional context.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Dialect, Culture, and Society in Eastern Arabia, Volume 2: Ethnographic Texts. To get started finding Dialect, Culture, and Society in Eastern Arabia, Volume 2: Ethnographic Texts, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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