{"product_id":"dialect-culture-society-in-eastern-arabia-9789004464575","title":"Dialect, Culture, \u0026 Society in Eastern Arabia","description":"\u003ci\u003eDialect, Culture, and Society in Eastern Arabia\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\nVolume 1: \u003ci\u003eGlossary\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003cbr\u003e\nVolume 2: \u003ci\u003eEthnographic Texts\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\nVolume 3: \u003ci\u003ePhonology, Morphology, Syntax, Style\u003c\/i\u003e is based on an extensive archive of recorded material, gathered for its ethnographic as well as its purely linguistic interest.","brand":"Clive Holes","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48310630777083,"sku":"9789004464575","price":188.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/dialect-culture-society-in-eastern-arabia-9789004464575","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}