Open AccessBook Review of Farghal’s Jordan’s Proverbs as a Window into Arab Popular Culture
Author(s) -
William R. Naugle
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
international journal of arabic-english studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.26
H-Index - 3
ISSN - 1680-0982
DOI - 10.33806/ijaes2000.20.1.13
Subject(s) - mantra , literature , curiosity , reading (process) , intellect , aesthetics , politics , art , history , philosophy , psychology , law , epistemology , linguistics , political science , social psychology
Beyond leisurely reading, Farghal presents a tome that has great potential as a text for a wide array of academic lectures: culture, literature, linguistics, comparative studies, Near Eastern studies, etc. One could easily imagine using this work as the basis for a course in sociolinguistics or linguistic pragmatics; in fact, one is reminded of Brown & Levinson’s(1978) seminal work, Politeness: Some universals in language usage, and how Jordan’s Proverbs as a Window into Arab Popular Culture would complement it as a companion text for lectures on the conveyance of potent meaning, being couched within the face-saving speech act of a proverb.