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Publication details [#54741]

Hamam, Marco. 2011. Text vs. comment: Some examples of the rhetorical value of the diglossic code-switching in Arabic – a Gumperzian approach. Pragmatics 21 (1) : 41–67.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

code-switching | diglossia | message1 | metaphor | rhetoric

Language as a subject

Arabic

Place, Publisher

International Pragmatics Association

Journal DOI

10.1075/prag

Annotation

This study tries to demonstrate, via a range of examples drawn from an Aljazeera episode, how the juxtaposition of standard Arabic and colloquial Arabic and thus the diglossic code-switching in the Arabic spoken language, can constitute a vehicle for messages that carry rhetorical / metaphorical values.