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1) Subject: New article
2) Subject: New book
2) Subject: New article

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Date: 06 Mar 2001
From: moderator
Subject: New article

Mughazy, Mustafa A. (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Pragmatics of the Evil Eye in Egyptian Arabic
Studies in the Linguistic Sciences
Volume 30, Number 2  Fall 2000

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Date: 06 Mar 2001
From: reposted from LINGUIST
Subject: New book

Grounding in English and Arabic News Discourse.
Esam N. KHALIL (University of Nijmegen)
Pragmatics & Beyond NS 82
US & Canada: 1 55619 982 1 / USD 90.00 (Hardcover)
Rest of world:90 272 5101 0 / NLG 180.00 (Hardcover)

Grounding in English and Arabic News Discourse explores the discourse
notion of grounding (viz. the foreground-background structure), and
examines it in the various structures that occur in short news texts. A
text-level approach to grounding and the differentiation between several
core concepts relating to the various textual and non-textual structures,
distinguish the book from other approaches in the field.
A corpus-based analysis focuses on sentence-initial expressions and
examines the grounding-signalling function of several markers in both
English and Arabic. The analysis captures constraints on the occurrence of
particular markers, and the extensive illustrative examples explain the
strategies that writers employ to cope with problems of recasting
grounding-values in news texts. The author also shows how the failure to
signal appropriate grounding-values is likewise associated with the
failure to deliver the appropriate type of text.
Grounding is a relatively unexplored area of investigation in Arabic
(text)lingusitics, and the study identifies a series of previously
unrecognized language features, highlighting the discourse pragmatic
function that syntax serves.
The book will be invaluable to researchers and students of discourse,
pragmatics, contrastive rhetoric, and communication. It will also be of
interest to all those involved in translation and intercultural studies.


                                  John Benjamins Publishing Co.

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3)
Date: 06 Mar 2001
From: reposted from LINGUIST
Subject: New article

Computers and the Humanities
The Official Journal of The Association for Computers and the Humanities

ISSN 0010-4817

http://www.wkap.nl/issuetoc.htm/0010-4817+35+2+2001

Vol. 35, Issue 2, May 2001.

TITLE:      Sentential Count Rules for Arabic Language
AUTHOR(S):  Fawaz S. Al-Anzi
KEYWORD(S): Arabic, classic Arabic, modern Arabic, automated translation,
             counting, grammar, numbers, parsing, sentential numbers.
PAGE(S):    153-166

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