John C Eisele
Biographic Data
| ID | 754214 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John C Eisele |
| GIVEN NAMES | John C |
| FAMILY NAME | Eisele |
| SIGNATURE | EISELE J C |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Myth, values, and practice in the representation of Arabic
Ferguson’s (1959) short article, “Myths About Arabic,” is a seminal article on language attitudes. In its brief expanse, he sketches out a number of ideas whose implications have yet to be coherently developed, whether related to Arabic or to any speech community. In this article I will critically examine some of these ideas and methods and compare them to my own research project on the representation of Arabic East and West, which is directly re…
Arabic Verbs in Time: Tense and Aspects in Cairene Arabic
The Wild East: Deconstructing the Language of Genre in the Hollywood Eastern
This article argues for the existence of a genre of films termed the eastern that deals with the Middle East. Subgenres of the eastern (Arabian nights, sheik, foreign legion, foreign intrigue, and terrorist) vary in the degree of identification allowed the character of the Arab other, reflecting the political-historical context of their development, yet they share a number of narrative tropes that function as unifying attributes of the category a…
Parallels in Semitic Linguistics: The Development of Arabic la-and Related Semitic Particles
This linguistic study is concerned with the role of the emphasizing particle la- (known as lam al-ta'kid) in the grammatical traditions of Classical Arabic, as well as with the question of the historical relationship connecting this particle to a set of elements in several other Semitic languages showing comparable forms and functions. Although these particles have hitherto seemed to defy a coherent reconstruction, the very complexity of the data…
On the Description and Representation of Arabic
In Modern Arabic, Clive Holes suceeds in detailing present-day Arabic in all of its variety. Yet, in drawing conclusions regarding several important points, he fails to consider fully and objectively some of the data he himself presents in the study, due partly to his uncritical acceptance of certain widely-held but often unexpressed notions about Arabic. This-together with occasional lapses in the data itself-ultimately undermines the premise of…
Artificial Punning in the Egyptian Arabic Ballad: A Reinterpretation of Structuralist Poetics
This article presents a linguistic analysis of a specific feature of a literary genre: the artificial punning found in the Egyptian Arabic narrative ballad (as described in Cachia 1989). A comparison of how these puns differ from regular processes in the phonology and morphology of the language reveals that this encoding by the poet-performer is very much a mirror image of regular processes. The audience's decoding of them, therefore, follows a p…
Myth, values, and practice in the representation of Arabic
Ferguson’s (1959) short article, “Myths About Arabic,” is a seminal article on language attitudes. In its brief expanse, he sketches out a number of ideas whose implications have yet to be coherently developed, whether related to Arabic or to any speech community. In this article I will critically examine some of these ideas and methods and compare them to my own research project on the representation of Arabic East and West, which is directly re…
Artificial Punning in the Egyptian Arabic Ballad: A Reinterpretation of Structuralist Poetics
This article presents a linguistic analysis of a specific feature of a literary genre: the artificial punning found in the Egyptian Arabic narrative ballad (as described in Cachia 1989). A comparison of how these puns differ from regular processes in the phonology and morphology of the language reveals that this encoding by the poet-performer is very much a mirror image of regular processes. The audience's decoding of them, therefore, follows a p…
On the Description and Representation of Arabic
In Modern Arabic, Clive Holes suceeds in detailing present-day Arabic in all of its variety. Yet, in drawing conclusions regarding several important points, he fails to consider fully and objectively some of the data he himself presents in the study, due partly to his uncritical acceptance of certain widely-held but often unexpressed notions about Arabic. This-together with occasional lapses in the data itself-ultimately undermines the premise of…
Artificial Punning in the Egyptian Arabic Ballad: A Reinterpretation of Structuralist Poetics
This article presents a linguistic analysis of a specific feature of a literary genre: the artificial punning found in the Egyptian Arabic narrative ballad (as described in Cachia 1989). A comparison of how these puns differ from regular processes in the phonology and morphology of the language reveals that this encoding by the poet-performer is very much a mirror image of regular processes. The audience's decoding of them, therefore, follows a p…
Parallels in Semitic Linguistics: The Development of Arabic la-and Related Semitic Particles
This linguistic study is concerned with the role of the emphasizing particle la- (known as lam al-ta'kid) in the grammatical traditions of Classical Arabic, as well as with the question of the historical relationship connecting this particle to a set of elements in several other Semitic languages showing comparable forms and functions. Although these particles have hitherto seemed to defy a coherent reconstruction, the very complexity of the data…
The Wild East: Deconstructing the Language of Genre in the Hollywood Eastern
This article argues for the existence of a genre of films termed the eastern that deals with the Middle East. Subgenres of the eastern (Arabian nights, sheik, foreign legion, foreign intrigue, and terrorist) vary in the degree of identification allowed the character of the Arab other, reflecting the political-historical context of their development, yet they share a number of narrative tropes that function as unifying attributes of the category a…
Myth, values, and practice in the representation of Arabic
Ferguson’s (1959) short article, “Myths About Arabic,” is a seminal article on language attitudes. In its brief expanse, he sketches out a number of ideas whose implications have yet to be coherently developed, whether related to Arabic or to any speech community. In this article I will critically examine some of these ideas and methods and compare them to my own research project on the representation of Arabic East and West, which is directly re…
Arabic Verbs in Time: Tense and Aspects in Cairene Arabic
Arabic (5 works) · History (5 works) · Linguistics (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Language, Linguistics, Cultural Analysis (4 works) · Literature (4 works) · Historical and Linguistic Studies (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Law (2 works)