ERIC Number: EJ1127169
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Publication Date: 2016-Jun
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Synonymy in Jordanian Arabic
Alomoush, Omar Ibrahim Salameh
Advances in Language and Literary Studies, v7 n3 p243-247 Jun 2016
This paper is devoted to the investigation of synonymy in Jordanian Arabic. It has been assumed that synonymy in Jordanian Arabic has partial rather than complete synonymy. This means that the abundance of Jordanian Arabic in synonyms can be attributed to a number of explanations, namely dialectical variations, the speaker's attitude, and origin of words. The data for this study come from two main sources: written and spoken material. In accordance with the established literature on the semantics of synonymy, we have classified the corpus of the study on the basis of these parameters. The main findings reveal that total synonymy is hard to find in Jordanian Arabic, supporting the argument of many linguistic studies for the existence of partial rather than total synonymy in a language.
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Semitic Languages, Dialects, Language Usage, Attitudes, Printed Materials, Speech, Observation, Signs, Newspapers
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Identifiers - Location: Jordan
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