By analysing the folk stories and personal narratives of a cross-section of Palestinians, Sirhan offers a detailed study of how content and sociolinguistic variables affect a narrator's language use and linguistic behaviour. This book will be of interest to anyone engaged with narrative discourse, gender discourse, Arabic studies and linguistics.

Nadia R. Sirhan is a freelance Arabic translator and tutor. She completed her PhD in Arabic Linguistics in 2011 at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London University, UK.