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| Title: | (Translating) Emirati Arabic Politeness Formulas: An exploratory study and a mini-mini-dictionary |
| Author: | Bahaa-Eddin M. Mazid |
| Email: | click here to access email |
| Institution: | United Arab Emirates University |
| Linguistic Field: | Pragmatics; Translation |
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Arabic, Standard
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| Abstract: | Politeness is a universal, interdisciplinary phenomenon. Every culture, every language, has its ways of showing respect and deference, saving face, avoiding, or minimizing, imposition and exercising good manners verbally and non-verbally. The study is an investigation of some aspects of (translating) politeness Emirati Arabic. It starts with a brief theoretical background on politeness. Next, the study reports on the major findings of observing euphemisms, forms of address and non-verbal politeness in the UAE. Then, the study discusses some issues in translating politeness formulas and root-echo responses – e.g., congratulating, thanking, apologizing, in UAE Arabic – by a group of UAE University students. Finally a number of politeness formulas in Emirati Arabic are translated into English and appended to the study. |
| Type: | Individual Paper |
| Status: | Completed |
| Venue: | The Seventh Annual U.A.E. University Research Conference. April, 2006. |
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