Bedouin, Village and Urban Arabic. An Ecolinguistic Study.

Aus dem Nachlass von Gerd Winkelhane (1949-2018), ab 1989 Leiter des Klaus Schwarz Verlages. - Einband berieben, Eigentumsstempel im Titelblatt, sonst ein gutes und sauberes Exemplar. - Arabic speech communities exist in several distinct social units, ranging from tribal and subtribal bedouin groups traditionally associated with desert life to urban families in various socioeconomic classes. Cutting across these differences of social organization are divisions based on physical environment and sociocultural adaptation to it: sedentary versus nonsedentary (nomadic) �a factor first recognized by Anis (1952) and later used by Al-Jundi (1965)�and rural versus urban. Together, these factors yield a three-way division of (sedentary) urban, sedentary rural, and (rural (nonsedentary) nomadic bedouin groups. This tripartite distinction therefore comprises both social and cultural differences among the various groups of Arab speakers and so is not definable in purely social, cultural, or even geographic terms. ISBN 9004096272