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Regions of the world with greatest biodiversity are shown to
exhibit greatest linguistic diversity, strongly suggesting that the
relationship between language and ecology is both symbiotic and
spatially and temporally determined. This volume examines the
expressions of, and threats and challenges to, this relationship in
southern and eastern Arabia. Exploring the ways in which indigenous
languages reflect the close relationship between people and their
natural environment, this book presents an overview of the key
threats and challenges, and introduces the methodologies used to
investigate them. Across the chapters, case studies are presented
dealing with language, gesture and ecology, the significance of
naming, the role of narratives in the language-ecology
relationship, and conservation and revitalisation of bio-cultural
diversity in Arabia. Taking a multidisciplinary view, this book
argues for the central role that language plays in facing the
challenges and threats to bio-cultural diversity, and presents
methods for the study of the language-nature relationship that can
be applied globally.
Al-'Arabiyya is the annual journal of the American Society for
Teachers of Arabic. It includes scholarly articles that advance the
study, research, and teaching of Arabic language, linguistics,
literature, and pedagogy. The five articles published in Volume 54
of Al-'Arabiyya contribute to timely topics in their own respective
fields within Arabic language: morphosyntax, first language
acquisition, heritage speakers, language and medicine, and online
technical and scientific terminology portals. This volume also
includes five reviews of books whose contents and scope range from
Arabic foreign language pedagogy, Arabic sociolinguistics, Arabic
translation in early modern Spain, Islamic architecture and related
artistic and cultural history, and to cross-cultural encounters in
pre-modern Moroccan and European travel writings.
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