<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>Arabic-L: Wed 27 Jul 2011<br>Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson <<a href="mailto:dil@byu.edu">dil@byu.edu</a>><br>[To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l@byu.edu]<br>[To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to<br><a href="mailto:listserv@byu.edu">listserv@byu.edu</a> with first line reading:<br> unsubscribe arabic-l ]<br><br>-------------------------Directory------------------------------------<br><br>1) Subject: New Book: Arabic Idioms<br><br>-------------------------Messages-----------------------------------<br>1)<br>Date: 27 Jul 2011<br>From: Ashraf Abdou <<a href="mailto:ashrafma@aucegypt.edu">ashrafma@aucegypt.edu</a>><br>Subject: New Book: Arabic Idioms<br><br><div>Title: Arabic Idioms: A corpus based study</div><div> </div><div>Publication Year: 2011</div><div> </div><div>Publisher: Routledge</div><div><a href="http://www.taylorandfrancis.com/books/details/9780415603409/">http://www.taylorandfrancis.com/books/details/9780415603409/</a></div><div> </div><div>Author: Ashraf Abdou</div><div> </div><div>Hardback: ISBN 978-0-415-60340-9: Price £70.00</div><div> </div><div><br></div><div>Description of the book:</div><div> </div><div>Idioms represent a fascinating linguistic phenomenon that has captured the attention of many linguists for decades. The ubiquity of these expressions in language use, the wide range of functions they perform in discourse, the problems they often cause in domains such as foreign language learning and translation, and their typical divergence from the normal rules of grammar and semantic compositionality are among the main reasons for this scholarly interest.</div><div> </div><div>This book is a corpus-based study of idioms in Modern Standard Arabic. Examining Arabic idioms with regard to their semantic, discursive, lexical and grammatical properties, the author sheds light on their intricate nature, establishes the major patterns of their linguistic behavior, and provides explanations for these patterns.</div><div> </div><div>Adopting a descriptive framework and systemically accounting for major linguistic phenomena, this analysis will be accessible to linguists, translators, lexicographers, translation software developers and language teachers.</div><div> </div><div>Ashraf Abdou is Adjunct Assistant Professor of Teaching Arabic as a Foreign Language at the American University in Cairo and Lecturer of Linguistics at Cairo University. His research focuses on Arabic phraseology, Arabic corpus linguistics, spoken discourse analysis, Arabic lexicography and English–Arabic contrastive phraseology.</div><div> </div><div>Contents</div><div>1. Introduction 2. Methodology and Data 3. The Semantic Structure of Arabic Idioms 4. The Discursive Behavior of Arabic Idioms 5. The Lexical and Grammatical Behavior of Arabic Idioms 6. Conclusions</div><div><br></div>--------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>End of Arabic-L: 27 Jul 2011</body></html>