The fronting and delaying in Omani folk poetry and its role in teaching Arabic: "The art of Al-Razfa and the art of Al-Azi as examples" Linguistic study

Abstract

Based on the concepts of text linguistics and discourse analysis, this study seeks to examine fronting and backshifting in Omani folk discourse as a mechanism for rearranging the surface structure of the sentence in accordance with the deep structure intended by the producer of the discourse. It relies on two folk arts in the Sultanate of Oman, namely the art of Al-Razfa or Al-Razha and the art of Al-Azi, analyzing their syntactic structures and pragmatic functions, and demonstrating the role of this phenomenon (fronting and backshifting) in teaching Arabic to non-native speakers. It analyzes the phenomenon of fronting and backshifting in Omani folk poetry, relying on the methodology of discourse linguistics, in order to demonstrate the extent of the presence of this phenomenon in it, and the extent of its ability in folk discourse to teach Arabic to non-native speakers. The study reached a number of conclusions, most notably that popular discourse is not merely a spontaneous linguistic space, but rather an expressive system governed by precise linguistic choices that respond to the demands of the situation and the social context. The phenomenon of fronting and backshifting was present in the studied discourses, and this phenomenon, along with the organized popular discourses in the Sultanate of Oman, proved its effectiveness in teaching Arabic to non-native speakers.