La mémoire, le corps et l'identité. Observations à partir de données fournies par le parler arabe de Kormakiti (Chypre) - article ; n°1 ; vol.25, pg 111-119

Ariette Roth

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Travaux de la Maison de l'Orient méditerranéen - Année 1996 - Volume 25 - Numéro 1 - Pages 111-119
On the subject of memory, of the body and of identity: observations based on data from the Arabic speaking people of Kormatiki
This contribution on the subject of Language and Identity is based on information collected from research on Arabic speakers of Kormatiki village, undertaken between October 1973 and January 1974. It pertains to consideration of facts which are now a matter of history, since most of the inhabitants of Kormatiki left the village after the events which led to the island's partition. Only a small minority of the Arab population of Kormatiki were bilingual; the vast majority sought cultural and linguistic assimilation. Loyalty to their ancestral idiom was not a primary feature of their community, whose immigration to Cyprus dates far back. The most significant expression of their individuality was tied to religion. Arab speech in Kormatiki shows: fewer than 1300 lexical forms, linguistic structures (phonological, morphological and syntactical) strongly but inequally affected by Greek contact. What words remain in the memory, what do they mean, and what do they tell?
The first part of the paper considers the rules and workings of speech. The second tries to identify which portions of the Arab lexicon were retained, their usage in the process of eviction, preferred bias in its competition with Greek. Finally a third part questions which spatial and temporal indicators formed the ethnotexts and accounts collected. We find that body displacements and confinements play a major role.
9 pages
Source : Persée ; Ministère de la jeunesse, de l’éducation nationale et de la recherche, Direction de l’enseignement supérieur, Sous-direction des bibliothèques et de la documentation.

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• Publié par: TRAVAUX_DE_LA_MAISON_DE_L-ORIENT
• Publié le: 01 janvier 1996
• Nombre de lectures: 21
• Langue: Français

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Ariette Roth

La mémoire, le corps et l'identité. Observations à partir de

données fournies par le parler arabe de Kormakiti (Chypre)

In: Chypre hier et aujourd’hui entre Orient et Occident. Actes du colloque tenu à Nicosie, 1994, Université de Chypre

et Université Lumière Lyon 2. Lyon : Maison de l'Orient et de la Méditerranée Jean Pouilloux, 1996. pp. 111-119.

(Travaux de la Maison de l'Orient méditerranéen)

Abstract

On the subject of memory, of the body and of identity: observations based on data from the Arabic speaking people of Kormatiki

This contribution on the subject of Language and Identity is based on information collected from research on Arabic speakers of

Kormatiki village, undertaken between October 1973 and January 1974. It pertains to consideration of facts which are now a

matter of history, since most of the inhabitants of Kormatiki left the village after the events which led to the island's partition. Only

a small minority of the Arab population of Kormatiki were bilingual; the vast majority sought cultural and linguistic assimilation.

"Loyalty" to their ancestral idiom was not a primary feature of their community, whose immigration to Cyprus dates far back. The

most significant expression of their individuality was tied to religion. Arab speech in Kormatiki shows: fewer than 1300 lexical

forms, linguistic structures (phonological, morphological and syntactical) strongly but inequally affected by Greek contact. What

words "remain" in the memory, what do they mean, and what do they tell?

The first part of the paper considers the rules and workings of speech. The second tries to identify which portions of the Arab

lexicon were retained, their usage in the process of eviction, preferred "bias" in its competition with Greek. Finally a third part

questions which spatial and temporal indicators formed the ethnotexts and accounts collected. We find that body displacements

and confinements play a major role.

Citer ce document / Cite this document :

Roth Ariette. La mémoire, le corps et l'identité. Observations à partir de données fournies par le parler arabe de Kormakiti

(Chypre). In: Chypre hier et aujourd’hui entre Orient et Occident. Actes du colloque tenu à Nicosie, 1994, Université de Chypre

et Université Lumière Lyon 2. Lyon : Maison de l'Orient et de la Méditerranée Jean Pouilloux, 1996. pp. 111-119. (Travaux de la

Maison de l'Orient méditerranéen)

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