Modern Arabic Drama in Egypt

Badawi, M. M.

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“…The descendant of Classical Arabic, MSA is not only the medium of writing in the Arab world, but also dominates the mass media (radio, television, and the press). It is the language of education throughout much of the Arab world and overrides the many vernaculars acquired as a first language by all native Arabs and used in informal settings, and which shares its fundamental properties with these vernaculars (Badawi, 1973 ; Holes, 1995 ; Versteegh, 1997 ). In this situation of linguistic diglossia, there are several reasons why we chose to focus on MSA rather than one of the dialects spoken in the Arab world.…”

Section: Arabic In Contextmentioning

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“…Third, there are major parallels between the structure of MSA and of any given dialect of Arabic. Where morphology is concerned, both MSA and dialectal Arabic are Semitic systems in which roots and word patterns dominate word formation (Badawi, 1973 ; Holes, 1995 ; Versteegh, 1997 ). In other research we have specifically addressed potential processing differences in the morphological domain between MSA and dialectal Arabic (as spoken in southern Tunisia).…”

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Structure, form, and meaning in the mental lexicon: evidence from Arabic

Boudelaa

Marslen–Wilson

2015

Language, Cognition and Neuroscience

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Does the organization of the mental lexicon reflect the combination of abstract underlying morphemic units or the concatenation of word-level phonological units? We address these fundamental issues in Arabic, a Semitic language where every surface form is potentially analyzable into abstract morphemic units – the word pattern and the root – and where this view contrasts with stem-based approaches, chiefly driven by linguistic considerations, in which neither roots nor word patterns play independent roles in word formation and lexical representation. Five cross-modal priming experiments examine the processing of morphologically complex forms in the three major subdivisions of the Arabic lexicon – deverbal nouns, verbs, and primitive nouns. The results demonstrate that root and word pattern morphemes function as abstract cognitive entities, operating independently of semantic factors and dissociable from possible phonological confounds, while stem-based approaches consistently fail to accommodate the basic psycholinguistic properties of the Arabic mental lexicon.

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Section: Arabic In Contextmentioning

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Section: Arabic In Contextmentioning

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Structure, form, and meaning in the mental lexicon: evidence from Arabic

Boudelaa

Marslen–Wilson

2015

Language, Cognition and Neuroscience

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“…Hence, in all regions in the Arabic-speaking world, once children enter school they are intensively and extensively exposed to Modern Standard Arabic as the language of reading and writing. Spoken interactions, even inside the classroom, remain to be conducted in Spoken Arabic, or in a semi-standard variety known as Educated Spoken Arabic (Badawi, 1973 ), except probably during Arabic lessons, where Standard Arabic is more dominant, at least in aspiration (Amara, 1995 ). The great majority of Arabic speaking Palestinian citizens of Israel are native speakers of Arabic and the great majority of them enroll in Arabic-medium schools (preschool throughout high-school).…”

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Impact of Diglossia on Word and Non-word Repetition among Language Impaired and Typically Developing Arabic Native Speaking Children

Saiegh–Haddad

Ghawi-Dakwar

2017

Front. Psychol.

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The study tested the impact of the phonological and lexical distance between a dialect of Palestinian Arabic spoken in the north of Israel (SpA) and Modern Standard Arabic (StA or MSA) on word and non-word repetition in children with specific language impairment (SLI) and in typically developing (TD) age-matched controls. Fifty kindergarten children (25 SLI, 25 TD; mean age 5;5) and fifty first grade children (25 SLI, 25 TD; mean age 6:11) were tested with a repetition task for 1–4 syllable long real words and pseudo words; Items varied systematically in whether each encoded a novel StA phoneme or not, namely a phoneme that is only used in StA but not in the spoken dialect targeted. Real words also varied in whether they were lexically novel, meaning whether the word is used only in StA, but not in SpA. SLI children were found to significantly underperform TD children on all repetition tasks indicating a general phonological memory deficit. More interesting for the current investigation is the observed strong and consistent effect of phonological novelty on word and non-word repetition in SLI and TD children, with a stronger effect observed in SLI. In contrast with phonological novelty, the effect of lexical novelty on word repetition was limited and it did not interact with group. The results are argued to reflect the role of linguistic distance in phonological memory for novel linguistic units in Arabic SLI and, hence, to support a specific Linguistic Distance Hypothesis of SLI in a diglossic setting. The implications of the findings for assessment, diagnosis and intervention with Arabic speaking children with SLI are discussed.

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“…Nel 1966 ha pubblicato al-Mahzala al-arḍiyya (La farsa del mondo), un'opera in cui la realtà e il sogno si mischiano, con un palese valore simbolico, e nella quale si ritrovano echi di al-Farāfīr: uno dei temi è, ancora una volta, la relatività della verità, anche se in questo lavoro è accompagnata da una riflessione sulla follia e sulla malvagità umana (Badawi [1987] 2005, 160-1). Con al-Mukhaṭṭaṭīn (Gli inquadrati), nel 1969, Idrīs ha proposto al suo pubblico un dramma dell'assurdo, nel quale un partito unico al potere controlla e reprime i propri cittadini.…”

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“…Una grande famiglia umana che si è ritrovata e festeggia, per prima cosa, il fatto di essersi ritrovata, e poi che celebrerà attraverso il teatro, la filosofia e l'ironia, con grande franchezza, impertinenza e libertà. (59) Il personaggio dell'Autore, secondo Badawi, si pone come il Presentatore dei testi di teatro d'ombre di Ibn Dāniyāl, del XIII secolo, 10 che introduceva solitamente il personaggio principale dell'opera, Ṭayf al-Khayāl (Badawi [1987] 2005, 157). Dopo la dichiarazione d'intenti iniziale, egli comincia a cercare il coinvolgimento degli spettatori in una riflessione sul concetto di recitazione e di attorialità:…”

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al-Farāfīr

Suriano

2018

I Grandi Libri Della Letteratura Araba

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Based on the Hegelian dialectic of the servant-master, this comedy represents, with the sarcasm and irony typical of its author, a profound reflection on the relationships between human beings. Starting from the local, with a pungent criticism on the social and political condition of Egypt in the Sixties, the two protagonists Farfūr and the Master guide and involve the spectator in a consideration on humanity and on the meaning of life that reaches universality. Divided into two acts, the comedy has no precise indications about time and space, which is confused with the time of representation, also thanks to the involvement of actors who are among the spectators. Discussing each other on names, trades and interpersonal relationships, the two protagonists criticise corruption, poor management of public health, social inequalities, but also the intellectual class that fails to give answers to people’s practical needs. The division in two of human society is even more evident with the second act, when the author’s reflection moves towards the existing organisational and economic systems, dismantling the complexity and reducing them again to a mere servant-master relationship. The other characters of the play are functional to the discourse of Idrīs: wives and children, spectators-actors and especially the figure of the author, who gradually disappears and abandons his own creatures to their fate.

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Modern Arabic Drama in Egypt

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Structure, form, and meaning in the mental lexicon: evidence from Arabic

Structure, form, and meaning in the mental lexicon: evidence from Arabic

Impact of Diglossia on Word and Non-word Repetition among Language Impaired and Typically Developing Arabic Native Speaking Children

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