Measure Terms in Rural Jordanian Spoken Arabic
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21185756 |
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| Authors | Ahmad Al-Harahsheh (0000-0001-9381-641X, Yarmouk University, corresponding author), Ahmad Mohammad Al-Harahsheh |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 121-134 |
| Publication date | 2014-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal of Arabic-English Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1680-0982 |
| Publisher | The Association of Professors of English and Translation at Arab Universities - APETAU (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.33806/ijaes2000.15.1.8 |
| OpenAlex | W3020877387 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 5 |
The use of measure terms can be socially and culturally determined, as every speech society may have its own unique measure terms. This study aims to shed light on the sociolinguistic usage of measure terms in Jordanian Spoken Arabic (JSA). The researcher collected the data from everyday conversations in the rural dialect of the north of Jordan. The participants of the study were 15 men and women who were in their fifties and sixties. The ethnography of communication and Interactional Sociolinguistic (IS) approaches are adopted as the theoretical framework for this study. The study concluded that measure terms in JSA are culturally and socially inherited and transmitted, and Jordanians tend to use body parts (i.e. finger, hand, foot and leg related expressions) as measure terms for heights, lengths and weights
Arabic · Ethnography · Everyday life · Linguistics · Sociology · Anthropology · Computer Science · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Psychology · Social Psychology · Swearing, Euphemism, Multilingualism
| Highly cited | No |
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