LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 12 : 11 November 2012
ISSN 1930-2940

Managing Editor: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
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Greeting Patterns in Jordanian Arabic

Omar Mohammad-Ameen Ahmad Hazaymeh

Abstract

Greetings are one of the most important social phenomena. Every human society has various forms and ways of greeting. Jordanian society is governed by many social norms, which regulate the daily relations between its members. One of these norms is the patterns that Jordanians use to greet each other. The present study aims at studying the different greeting patterns that are used by people of Jordan. There will be a review of related literature and then the paper will present ways in which these greetings are formed in Jordanian Arabic . The paper will also study and analyze the different social factors that stand beyond using such patterns.

1. Introduction

One of the most important social and daily customs in any human society is greeting. Different spoken expressions of greeting are within the vernacular of any community and they have a high social position due to their importance in enhancing and promoting the relations between the society members. In this paper, there will be a discussion and an investigation of the greeting patterns that are adopted by people of Jordan in their everyday Arabic for different social occasions. The study will concentrate on the types of these patterns, their formation, and factors that stand beyond using them.

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Omar Mohammad-Ameen Ahmad Hazaymeh
Al-Balqa Applied University
Huson University College
Jordan
omar2haz@yahoo.com
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