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- Lundin, Emil, 1985-
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Media Arabic Grammar and Semantics. Clauses and non-core elements : A corpus investigation of print hard news
- 2021
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- ”Media Arabic” is taught on universities all over the world and its understanding ranks among the top-reasons for students to pursue Arabic studies. The coursebooks on ”Media Arabic” focus on print hard news and tacitly assume the existence of an Arabic journalese. Previous research on Arabic newspaper language is scarce.Focusing on the morphosyntax and semantics of subordinate and peripheral syntagms within the sentence of a Media Arabic corpus, this thesis aims to quantitatively answer the question of what characterizes Media Arabic from a linguistic perspective.This study is a corpus investigation of print hard news based on a corpus of 35,000 words, or 1,144 sentences, taken from the Egyptian newspaper al-Ahram, September 2014. The core focus is on the morphosyntax, and logico-semantic relations of peripheral nominal and clausal non-core elements to their matrices or heads. In laymen terms: the grammar and meaning of adverbs, prepositional phrases, and subordinate clauses.Following a description of the corpus, journalism and journalese, Media Arabic, their contextualization, and relevant theoretical preliminaries, peculiarities, and the methodology, the analysis centres around the morphosyntax and semantics of the attested 1,144 main clauses, 891 complement main clauses and 828 complementizers, 869 non-nominalized non-main clauses, 642 non-deverbalized relative clauses, 473 adverbs (including peripheral accusative nouns), 461 peripheral and predicative participles (including nominalized relative clauses), 40 peripheral accusative verbal nouns, and 6391 prepositional phrases. Backed by detailed quantitative data, the study concludes that the language of Arabic news is characterized linguistically by a high degree of formalization.
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- Ramsay, Gail, 1955-
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A Presentation of Yūsuf al-Sibāʿī
- 1993
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Ingår i: The Middle East. - Copenhagen : Nordic institute of Asian studies. - 8787062240 ; , s. 241-243
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Ramsay, Gail, 1955-
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Araberna och deras häst
- 1992
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Ingår i: Orientaliska studier. - Stockholm : Föreningen för orientaliska studier. - 0345-8997. ; :77-78, s. 3-12
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Tidskriftsartikel (populärvet., debatt m.m.)
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- Ramsay, Gail, 1955-
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Blogs & Literature & Activism : Popular Egyptian blogs and literature in touch
- 2017
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Bok (refereegranskat)abstract
- The blogosphere and blogging provided Arab bloggers momentarily with a domain in which to criticize the government, call for change, break taboos and mobilize citizens. This book shows that many of the same societal and political problems that have been treated for decades in literary expression in Egypt are also brought up in five Egyptian, top-ranked blogs in the run-up to the uprising of January 2011. Social critical narrative themes common to the literature as well as to blogposts include criticism of poor governance, corruption, poverty, religious hypocrisy and the vast class differences existing in Egyptian society. Some of the bloggers call for democratic liberties such as human rights and freedom of expression.
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- Ramsay, Gail, 1955-
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Breaking the silence of nature in an Arabic novel : Nazif al-hajar by Ibrahim al-Kawni
- 2014
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Ingår i: From Tur Abdin to Hadramawt. - Wiesbaden : Harrassowitz Verlag. - 9783447102650 ; , s. 149-172
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This article applies Hubert Zapf's (2002) eco-critical triadic model to the novel Nazif al-hajar by the Libyan author Ibrahim al-Kawni/al-Kony (1990). Through the representation of three central characters and three animal species affiliated with the desert, we inquire about the problematic of the extinction of central species of the fauna in the bioregion in which the novel is set, the south-western Libyan desert. We also inquire about 'alternative' life-styles suitable for life in the global village of the present.
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- Ramsay, Gail, 1955-
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Ecological Literacy in an Egyptian Short Story
- 2020
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Ingår i: Studia Semitica Upsaliensia. - Uppsala : Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis. - 0585-5535.
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This article explores a way in which an urban society in the Arab world may respond to an ecosystem by acquiring a measure of ecological literacy (eco-literacy) in a short story by an Egyptian author. Guided by David W. Orr’s concept of ecological literacy (1992) and eco-literacy (Amy Cutter Mackenzie and Richard Smith, 2003) we observe in which way this short story expresses awareness of ecological interrelatedness and an attitude of care and stewardship towards nature. With Christopher Manes (1996) and Don Kulick (1917) we argue that an environmental ethics which speaks on the behalf of nature and empathetic engagement with life beyond the human emerge.
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- Ramsay, Gail, 1955-
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Egyptiska bloggare : Del av en tradition och ett uppror
- 2012
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Ingår i: Årsbok/Kungl. Humanistiska Vetenskaps-Samfundet i Uppsala. - Uppsala. - 0349-0416. ; , s. 109-130
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- In this paper I present five popular Egyptian bloggers who blog in Arabic and show their posts to be activist, at times breaking taboos with regard to what may be said publicly about the president, the government and State Security. While doing this they also adhere to a deep-seated Arabic tradition of using cultural instruments of expression. From the vantage point of Sabry Hafez’ (2011) findings with regard to despondency and gloom in Arabic literary texts from the 1900s, we find these bloggers to be vexed with the pervasive corruption, harassment from State Security and lack of democratic rights such as freedom of speech and rule of law in their society. With Hoda Elsadda (2010 and 2012) we also perceive these bloggers to be creative while voicing vibrant and diverse views in their posts. No matter how activist or radical the blogger emerges, a substantial instrument of expression may be derived from the Arabic cultural tradition of poetry in the service of resistance.The bloggers according to popularity ranking when they were selected during 2010: (1) Wael Abbas (Wāʾil ʿAbbās), (2) Abdel Moneim Mahmoud (ʿAbd al-Munʿim Maḥmūd), (3) Ashraf al-Anany (Ashraf al-ʿAnānī), (4) Nawara Negm (Nawwāra Najm), (5) Ahmed Shokeir (Aḥmad Shuqayr).
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