Middle East Linguistics Books

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1. Arabic Idioms: A Corpus Based Study

   By Ashraf Abdou

   Idioms represent a fascinating linguistic phenomenon that has captured the attention of many linguists for decades. The ubiquity of these expressions in language use, the wide range of functions they perform in discourse, the problems they often cause in domains such as foreign language...

   February 2011 | 978-0-415-60340-9 | Hardback (Routledge)

2. Islamist Rhetoric: Language and Culture in Contemporary Egypt

   By Jacob Hoigilt

   Islamism in Egypt is more diversified in terms of its sociology and ideology than is usually assumed. Through linguistic analysis of Islamist rhetoric, this book sheds light upon attitudes towards other Muslims, religious authority and secular society. Examining the rhetoric of three central...

   October 2010 | 978-0-415-57440-2 | Hardback (Routledge)

3. Information Structure in Spoken Arabic

   Edited by Jonathan Owens, Alaa Elgibali

   This book explores speakers’ intentions, and the structural and pragmatic resources they employ, in spoken Arabic – which is different in many essential respects from literary Arabic. Based on new empirical findings from across the Arabic world this book elucidates the many ways in which context...

   July 2009 | 978-0-415-77844-2 | Hardback (Routledge)