Word Formation of Clothing Vocabularies in Modern Standard Arabic And Egyptian

DOI

10.2991/icclas-18.2019.1How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Arabic clothes vocabularies, word formation, Arab tradition

Abstract

The present work is devoted to the study of Arabic clothes vocabularies, that reflect the symbolic tradition of Arab people, their culture, and also their way of life. The aims of this study were to describe: (1) new words introduced into Arabic fashion lexicons; (2) a number of word-formation processes; and (3) factors that broaden the meaning the words. The main method of this study is the descriptive method, including such techniques as the study of factual material, generalization and classification; structurally morphological one, with the identification of lexical unit development models. In the process of lexical unit sampling, the method of semantic analysis and qualitative method were used. The primary data this research were Arab fashion lexicons obtained from you tube modelling, video modeling, and clothing pictures documented on books; while the ssecondary data refer to additional information in the literature study, information from the internet, books and encyclopedias of Islamic clothing. The study reveals the Arabic clothing vocabularies increase through the word formation including: loanword, coinage, calque, blends, extension backformation. It also finds out some words changed their meaning through broadening process because of linguistic and non-linguistic factors.

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© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Darsita Suparno
AU  - Baikuni
AU  - Akbar Amanah Illahi Chairul
PY  - 2019/02
DA  - 2019/02
TI  - Word Formation of Clothing Vocabularies in Modern Standard Arabic And Egyptian
BT  - Proceedings of the 2nd Internasional Conference on Culture and Language in Southeast Asia (ICCLAS 2018)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 1
EP  - 4
SN  - 2352-5398
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DO  - 10.2991/icclas-18.2019.1
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