Pronouncing Arabic: v.2 - Hardcover

Mitchell, T. F.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0198239890 ISBN 13: 9780198239895

Publisher: Clarendon Press, 1993

Synopsis

This book complements and extends the author's "Writing Arabic" and "Pronouncing Arabic 1", and so completes an introductory trilogy on the Arabic language. The learner, faced with a seemingly boundless variety of living Arabic speech, stands in need of a generalized framework within which to listen and respond. "Pronouncing Arabic 2" aims to answer this need. Professor Mitchell familiarizes the reader with regional and stylistic variation in colloquial speech outside the strict confines of Classical and so-called Modern Standard Arabic, and provides a uniquely comprehensive survey of the "accents" of various representative vernaculars. He gives guidance to consonants, vowels, accentuation, and intonation, paying special attention to Moroccan, Cyrenaican bedouin, Egyptian, Palestinian, Syrian, Jordanian, Iraqi, and Kuwaiti Arabic. A special feature of the book is his analysis of the pervasive interweave of vernacular Arabic and Modern Standard Arabic known increasingly as Educated Spoken Arabic, by means of which the educated speaker avoids sounding, on the one hand, illiterate or outlandish, and, on the other, bookish and pedantic.

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Review

"A contribution to our understanding of vernacular Arabic as well as a survey of the field."--Linguistics

Edition details

• Publisher: Clarendon Press
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0198239890
• ISBN 13: 9780198239895
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 322