Dickins, J orcid.org/0000-0003-0665-4825 (Cover date: Jan 2017) The pervasiveness of coordination in Arabic, with reference to Arabic>English translation. Languages in Contrast, 17 (2). pp. 229-254. ISSN 1387-6759
Abstract
This article analyses aspects of the greater use of coordination in Modern Standard Arabic as compared to English, illustrating this through Arabic>English translation. It argues that Arabic ‘favours’ coordination linguistically, textually and rhetorically, as follows: 1. The linguistic resources of Arabic favour coordination while those of English favour subordination – whether these are lexical (Arabic و wa- and ف fa- vs. English ‘and’), or semantic (the possibility of backgrounding coordinated clauses in Arabic compared to the marginality of backgrounded coordinated clauses in English); 2. Accompanying Arabic textual norms, e.g. (near-)synonym repetition and chained coordination, favour coordination while those of English favour subordination; 3. Further associated ‘rhetorical semantic’ uses of coordination are found in Arabic, e.g. hyperonym-hyponym repetition and associative repetition, which do not exist in English; 4. These extended usages further entrench coordination as a norm in Arabic as compared to English.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2017 John Benjamins Publishing Company. This is an author produced version of a paper published in Languages in Contrast. This article is under copyright and the publisher should be contacted for permission to re-use or reprint the material in any form. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | subordination, coordination, English, backgrounding, Arabic |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures (Leeds) > School of Languages Cultures & Societies (Leeds) > Arabic & Middle Eastern Studies (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 23 Jan 2017 12:47 |
Last Modified: | 27 Jun 2019 17:25 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | John Benjamins Publishing |
Identification Number: | 10.1075/lic.17.2.04dic |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:110940 |