{"title":"‘Whose father are you?’ Arabic teknonyms in a socio-pragmatic perspective","authors":"Amr A.A. Khalil, Tatiana V. Larina","doi":"10.1016/j.langcom.2024.04.001","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Teknonyms represent a special category of the addressing system of the Arabic language and most of its dialects. The present study analyzes Syrian Arabic teknonyms that have not been tackled before to highlight how often, in what situational contexts they are used and their pragmatic characteristics. The data were elicited from open-ended questionnaires supplemented by interviews with 74 representatives of the Syrian lingua-culture of both genders and subjected to a socio-pragmatic and lingua-cultural analysis. The findings show that teknonyms are an inherent feature of the modern Syrian culture and a significant identity characteristic of its representatives used as a marker of politeness. The results indicate that teknonyms pragmatically afford speakers the opportunity to simultaneously achieve closeness and respect.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47575,"journal":{"name":"Language & Communication","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.3000,"publicationDate":"2024-05-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Language & Communication","FirstCategoryId":"98","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0271530924000223","RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"COMMUNICATION","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Teknonyms represent a special category of the addressing system of the Arabic language and most of its dialects. The present study analyzes Syrian Arabic teknonyms that have not been tackled before to highlight how often, in what situational contexts they are used and their pragmatic characteristics. The data were elicited from open-ended questionnaires supplemented by interviews with 74 representatives of the Syrian lingua-culture of both genders and subjected to a socio-pragmatic and lingua-cultural analysis. The findings show that teknonyms are an inherent feature of the modern Syrian culture and a significant identity characteristic of its representatives used as a marker of politeness. The results indicate that teknonyms pragmatically afford speakers the opportunity to simultaneously achieve closeness and respect.
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This journal is unique in that it provides a forum devoted to the interdisciplinary study of language and communication. The investigation of language and its communicational functions is treated as a concern shared in common by those working in applied linguistics, child development, cultural studies, discourse analysis, intellectual history, legal studies, language evolution, linguistic anthropology, linguistics, philosophy, the politics of language, pragmatics, psychology, rhetoric, semiotics, and sociolinguistics. The journal invites contributions which explore the implications of current research for establishing common theoretical frameworks within which findings from different areas of study may be accommodated and interrelated. By focusing attention on the many ways in which language is integrated with other forms of communicational activity and interactional behaviour, it is intended to encourage approaches to the study of language and communication which are not restricted by existing disciplinary boundaries.
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