Thematic Structure And Para-syntax: Arabic As A Case Study

by James Dickins

2020-12-31 21:31:21

Thematic Structure and Para-Syntax: Arabic as a Case Studypresents a structural analysis of Arabic, providing an alternative to the traditional notions of theme and rheme.Taking Arabic as a case study, this book claims that approaches to thematic str... Read more

Thematic Structure and Para-Syntax: Arabic as a Case Studypresents a structural analysis of Arabic, providing an alternative to the traditional notions of theme and rheme.

Taking Arabic as a case study, this book claims that approaches to thematic structure propounded in universalist linguistic theories, of which Hallidayan systemic functional linguistics is taken as an illustrative example, are profoundly wrong. It argues that in order to produce an analysis of thematic structure and similar phenomena which is not undermined by its own theoretical presuppositions, it is necessary to remove such notions from the domain of linguistic and semiotic theory. The book initially focuses on Sudanese Arabic, because this allows for a beautifully clear exposition of general principles, before applying these principles to Modern Standard Arabic, and some other Arabic varieties.

This book will be of interest to scholars in Arabic linguistics, linguistic theory, and information structure.

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Book Details

File size9.21 X 6.14 X 0 in
Print pages176
PublisherRoutledge
Publication date March 16, 2020
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780367367503
James Dickins is Professor of Arabic at the University of Leeds. Ian Higgins, who, with the late Sándor Hervey, originated the Thinking Translation series, is Honorary Senior lecturer in Modern Langu...

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