Notes Toward a Definition of Modern Standard Arabic
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5162351 |
|---|---|
| Authors | William Cowan (John Brown University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1968 |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue | 1-2 |
| Pages | 29-34 |
| Publication date | 1968-06-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Language Learning (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0023-8333 • E-ISSN: 1467-9922 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1467-1770.1987.tb00387.x |
| OpenAlex | W1989877548 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
Modern Standard Arabic has two manifestations: a written manifestation and a spoken manifestation. These two manifestations differ significantly in the amounts and type of information they convey about the language. For example, the spoken manifestation ideally indicates case and mood inflections; the written manifestation does not, yet is intelligible to readers of the language. In this feature the written manifestation mirrors the facts of colloquial Arabic, which also does not have case and mood inflections. A suggested method of teaching this type of Arabic is one which omits the case and mood inflections at the elementary stage, and does not introduce them until after the basic core of the grammar has been learned
Arabic · Cognition · Feature (linguistics) · Grammar · Linguistics · Modern Standard Arabic · Mood · Psycholinguistics · Spoken language · Arabic Language Education Studies · Historical and Linguistic Studies · Language, Linguistics, Cultural Analysis · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology
| Citations per year | 0.05 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1970 - 2001 (32) |
| Highly cited | No |