TY - GEN

T1 - Dialectal atlas of the Arab world - Between intention and reality

AU - Redkin, Oleg

AU - Bernikova, Olga

PY - 2017

Y1 - 2017

N2 - Arabic dialectology has a long history and achieved significant progress in collecting and analyzing linguistic data and its classification. During the last century several attempts have been undertaken to create dialectal atlases of different regions of the Arab world. Besides this, considerable work also has been done on synchronous descriptions of modern and ancient Arabic dialects. Meanwhile these researches do not always reflect fully and adequately the current state of the dialectal continuum, which underwent significant transformations as a result of social and economic changes in the region, development of new technologies. Globalization and leveling of dialectal differences, spread of languages of international communication will lead to disappearance of small dialectal groups and vernaculars, among them those that are not sufficiently described or are little known at all, which presupposes their urgent investigation. In recent years digital methods of research open new horizons for scholars and put on the agenda the task of building of the dialectal atlas of the Arab world basing on the previous experience and data collected as well as application of ICT.

AB - Arabic dialectology has a long history and achieved significant progress in collecting and analyzing linguistic data and its classification. During the last century several attempts have been undertaken to create dialectal atlases of different regions of the Arab world. Besides this, considerable work also has been done on synchronous descriptions of modern and ancient Arabic dialects. Meanwhile these researches do not always reflect fully and adequately the current state of the dialectal continuum, which underwent significant transformations as a result of social and economic changes in the region, development of new technologies. Globalization and leveling of dialectal differences, spread of languages of international communication will lead to disappearance of small dialectal groups and vernaculars, among them those that are not sufficiently described or are little known at all, which presupposes their urgent investigation. In recent years digital methods of research open new horizons for scholars and put on the agenda the task of building of the dialectal atlas of the Arab world basing on the previous experience and data collected as well as application of ICT.

KW - Atlas

KW - Dialectology

KW - Language

KW - Model

KW - Technologies

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85032380360&partnerID=8YFLogxK

M3 - Conference contribution

AN - SCOPUS:85032380360

VL - 1

SP - 66

EP - 70

BT - WMSCI 2017 - 21st World Multi-Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics, Proceedings

PB - International Institute of Informatics and Systemics

T2 - 21st World Multi-Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics, WMSCI 2017

Y2 - 7 July 2017 through 10 July 2017

ER -