Data supporting 'Arabic Dialogues: Phrasebooks and the Learning of Colloquial Arabic 1798-1945' (Rachel Mairs, UCL Press).

How to cite this Dataset

Mairs, Rachel (2023): Data supporting 'Arabic Dialogues: Phrasebooks and the Learning of Colloquial Arabic 1798-1945' (Rachel Mairs, UCL Press). University of Reading. Dataset. https://doi.org/10.17864/1947.000469

Description

This data set complements the book 'Arabic Dialogues: Phrasebooks and the Learning of Colloquial Arabic 1798-1945', by Rachel Mairs, published by UCL Press. It should be cited as: Rachel Mairs (2023): Data supporting 'Arabic Dialogues: Phrasebooks and the Learning of Colloquial Arabic 1798-1945 (UCL Press)'. University of Reading. Dataset. https://doi.org/10.17864/1947.000469 Copyright 2023, University of Reading. This dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.

It contains:

- A Catalogue of colloquial Arabic phrasebooks discussed in the book (Word document and PDF). (Referred to in the text of the book as 'the Catalogue'.)

- Two Gephi graphs of: a) social connections between authors of language books, learners of Arabic and other significant figures; and b) relationships of plagiarism and influence between Arabic phrasebooks. (Referred to as Graph 1 and Graph 2 respectively.)

- PDF and JPEG files providing a visualisation of the Gephi data, for users who do not have or do not wish to use network analysis software. (Referred to as above.)

- A line chart showing the number of colloquial Arabic phrasebooks each year, across all languages, in the period 1798-1945 (Graph 3, PDF and JPEG).

- A line chart showing the cumulative number of colloquial Arabic phrasebooks published in the period 1798-1945 (Graph 4, PDF and JPEG).

- A line chart showing the number of colloquial Arabic phrasebooks published each year, separated by language, in the period 1798-1945 (Graph 5, PDF and JPEG).

Access to this data set is not essential in order to follow the arguments of the book, but it is intended to provide access 'in a user-friendly manner' to material that could not be presented adequately within the confines of a print publication.