Repetition in Arabic Discourse: Paradigms, Syntagms and the Ecology of Language

142 Pages·1991·8.455 MB·

by  Barbara Johnstone

REPETITION IN ARABIC DISCOURSE
Pragmatics & Beyond
New Series
Editors:
Jacob L. Mey
(Odense University)
Herman Parret
(Belgian National Science Foundation, Universities of Louvain and Antwerp)
Jef Verschueren
(Belgian National Science Foundation, University of Antwerp)
Editorial Address:
Linguistics (GER)
University of Antwerp (UIA)
Universiteitsplein 1
B-2610 Wilrijk
Belgium
Editorial Board:
Norbert Dittmar (Free University of Berlin)
Bruce Fraser (Boston University)
John Heritage (University of California at Los Angeles)
David Holdcroft (University of Leeds)
Catherine Kerbrat-Orecchioni (University of Lyon 2)
Beatriz Lavandera (University of Buenos Aires)
Marina Sbisà (University of Trieste)
Emanuel A. Schegloff {University of California at Los Angeles)
Paul O. Takahara (Kobe University)
Sandra Thompson (University of California at Santa Barbara)
Daniel Vanderveken (University of Quebec at Trois-Rivières)
Teun A. van Dijk (University of Amsterdam)
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Barbara Johnstone
Repetition in Arabic Discourse:
Paradigms, Syntagms, and the Ecology of Language
REPETITION IN
ARABIC DISCOURSE
PARADIGMS, SYNTAGMS, AND
THE ECOLOGY OF LANGUAGE
BARBARA JOHNSTONE
Texas A&M University
JOHN BENJAMINS PUBLISHING COMPANY
AMSTERDAM/PHILADELPHIA
1991
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Johnstone, Barbara.
Repetition in Arabic discourse : paradigms, syntagms, and the ecology of language /
Barbara Johnstone.
p. cm. - (Pragmatics & beyond, ISSN 0922-842X ; new ser. 18)
Includes bibliographical references.
1. Arabic language - Style. 2. Repetition (Rhetoric) I. Title. II. Series.
PJ6161.J64 1991
492'.7'0141--dc20 90-23248
ISBN 90 272 5028 6 (Eur.)/l-55619-284-3 (US) (alk. paper)
© Copyright 1991 - John Benjamins B.V.
No part of this book may be reproduced in any form, by print, photoprint, microfilm, or
any other means, without written permission from the publisher.
For my parents,
Henry W. Johnstone, Jr.
and
Margery V.C. Johnstone

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
This is a condensed, revised, and updated version of my doctoral
dissertation (University of Michigan, 1981). For their help with the
original version, I am especially grateful to A. L. Becker, Richard
Leo Enos, Ernest N. McCarus, and T. L. Markey. Mahmoud al-Batal
provided invaluable assistance as my Arabic-speaking consultant, and
helped me formulate some of the ideas I present here. I also thank
Joel Sherzer for allowing me to borrow part of the title of this book
— "the ecology of language" — from the title of an article of his.
I am especially appreciative of my Arab students, friends, and
colleagues, who originally got me interested in studying Arabic
discourse structure, and who have kept me fascinated with the topic.
I wish that this book could do justice to everything that all these
people have had to offer.

NOTE ON TRANSLITERATION
* Long vowels are represented as doubled.
* Consonants without equivalents in the Roman alphabet are represented
as follows: