Publications

Publication details [#53466]

Clift, Rebecca and Fadi Helani. 2010. Inshallah: Religious invocations in Arabic topic transition. Language in Society 39 (3) : 357–382.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

conversational analysis | religion | sequential organization | talk-in-interaction | topic change

Language as a subject

Arabic

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

Drawing on a corpus of Levantine (mainly Syrian) Arabic talk-in-interaction, this paper focuses on the sequential contexts of the religous invocation "inshallah" and its cognates across various models, and especially on its role in topic transition.