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A Digitally Assisted Model of Integration of Standard and Colloquial Arabic Based on the Common European Framework
No full textThe designing of Virtual Learning Environments for authentic proficiency enhancement in Arabic
No full textThe Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR) conceives language proficiency as the ability to cope with different tasks referring to real-life situations in ways that emulate native speakers' behavior. In the case of Arabic the accomplishment of those tasks by native speakers may require the resort to Standard Arabic (SA) alone, to Colloquial Arabic (CA) alone, or to a mixture of SA and CA.
Our contribution illustrates how this complex linguistic reality can be reproduced inside the classroom by creating a Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) that enables authentic proficiency enhancement and assessment in Arabic and ultimately allows the application of CEFR guidelines to the Teaching of Arabic as a Foreign Language (TAFL)
Approaches to the History and Dialectology of Arabic in Honor of Pierre Larcher
No full textThis volume includes the reflections of leading researchers on Arabic and Semitic languages, also understood as systems and representations. The work first deals with Biblical Hebrew, Early Aramaic, Afroasiatic and Semitic. Its core focuses on morpho-syntactic, semantic, pragmatic, rhetoric and logic matters, showing Arabic grammar's place within the system of the sciences of language. In the second part, authors deal with lexical issues, before they explore dialectology. The last stop is a reflection on how Arabic linguistics may prevent the understanding of the Arabs' own grammatical theory and the teaching and learning of Arabic.
Contributors are: Nadia Anghelescu, Georgine Ayoub, Ramzi Baalbaki, Marie Baize-Varin, Lidia Bettini, Francesco Binaghi, Louis-Jean Calvet, Michael G. Carter, Philippe Cassuto, Joseph Dichy, Martino Diez, Lutz Edzard, Claude Gilliot, Manuela E.B. Giolfo, Alain Girod, George Grigore, Jean-Patrick Guillaume, Wilfrid Hodges, Elie Kallas, Manfred Kropp, MariaLuisa Langella, Jonathan Owens, Fabrizio A. Pennacchietti, Catherine Pinon, Arkadiusz Płonka, Manuel Sartori, Kees Versteegh, and Reinhard Weipert.
Editors' biographical note: Manuel Sartori, Ph.D. (2012), Aix-Marseille University, is researcher at IREMAM and teaches Arabic at ScPo Aix. He has published several articles on Arabic linguistics. Manuela E.B. Giolfo, Ph.D. (2010), Aix-Marseille University, is researcher in Arabic language & literature and lecturer in Arabic language & philology at Genoa University, and Chercheuse associée at IREMAM – CNRS - Aix-Marseille University. She edited Arab and Arabic linguistics (2014). Philippe Cassuto is Professor of Semitic Languages at Aix-Marseille University since 1992, and researcher at IREMAM. He has published monographs and articles, including three books co-authored with Pierre Larcher as Oralité et Écriture dans la Bible et le Coran (2014)
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
The system of the sciences of the arabic language by Sakkākī: logic as a complement of rhetoric
No full textThe present paper finds inspiration in Pierre Larcher’s chapter ‘Arabic Linguistic Tradition II: Pragmatics’, included in Jonathan Owens (ed.) The Oxford Handbook of Arabic Linguistics (Larcher 2013: 185-212). In Sakkākī’s (d. 626/1229) Miftāḥ al-ʿulūm “The key to the sciences” (Sakkākī, Miftāḥ) the sciences of language are presented as a complex system whose core includes the two sciences of morphology (ṣarf) and of syntax (naḥw), that is to say grammar; the two sciences of meanings (maʿānī) and of expression (bayān) - that is to say rhetoric -, and the two sciences of definition (ḥadd) and of argumentation (istidlāl) - that is to say logic. The complexity of the system lies in that syntax (ʿilm al-naḥw) finds its complement (tamām) in semantics (ʿilm al-maʿānī) which in turns finds its complement in logic (ʿilmā al-ḥadd wa-l-istidlāl). An axis ‘syntax-semantics-logic’ is thus drawn which brings logic within the field of linguistics. The ‘systemic’ intersection between rhetoric and grammar, and the ‘meta-systemic’ intersections between rhetoric and literature from one part and that between rhetoric and religious sciences from the other have been a subject of strong interest. However, the same cannot be said for another intersection, ‘systemic’ for Sakkākī: that between rhetoric, namely semantics (ʿilm al-maʿānī), and logic (ʿilmā al-ḥadd wa-l-istidlāl)
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