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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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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, Professor, 1955-
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Natur och välbefinnande i kris- och orostider, Libanon och Irak
- 2021. - 2021
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Ingår i: Bortom den arabiska våren. - Djursholm : Dar Al-Muna. - 9789188863058 ; , s. 153-176
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Bokkapitel (populärvet., debatt m.m.)abstract
- Kapitlet "Natur och välbefinnande i kris- och orostider, Libanon och Irak" behandlar hur olika naturmanifestationer spelar en roll för psykisk hälsa och välbefinnande som skildrat i två arabiska romaner. I den ena romanen, Hayy al-Amirkan (Amerikanernas kvarter) av Jabbour Douaihy, utspelar sig handlingen i Libanesiska Tripoli i en miljö som präglas av oro och våld i spåren av klasskillnader, hot och våld från polis, säkerhetstjänst, militär och konflikter mellan radikala grupper. I den andra romanen, Ya Maryam (Ave Maria) skildras huvudpersonernas tillvaro i det krigsdrabbade Irak efter den amerikanska invasionen 2003. Invasionen ökade instabiliteten och den inre oron och osäkerheten i landet. Att inte ständigt vara på sin vakt mot möjliga faror, är något vi kopplar till ökad sinnesfrid och välbefinnande, särskilt i tider av oro. I romanerna Hayy al-Amirkan och Ya Maryam visas att vägen till balans och psykologiskt välbefinnande går genom vistelse i en trädgård och omsorg om två växttyper: bonsai-trädet och dadelpalmen.
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- Ramsay, Gail, Professor, 1955-
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Nature and Well-Being in Times of Crisis and Unrest : Iraq and Lebanon
- 2022
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Ingår i: Orientalia Suecana. - : Uppsala University. - 0078-6578 .- 2001-7324. ; 71, s. 1-21
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article explores how cultivated nature emerges as therapeutic in maintaining psychological well-being for individuals living in contexts of violence and unrest. It addresses this issue through analysis of two contemporary works of Arabic fiction, one set in Iraq and the other in Lebanon. We ask about the effect of contact with two expressions of nature on central characters in the novels while taking into account that, in therapeutic horticulture, active or passive contact with nature may promote human health.
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