The Use of Vernacular and Standard Arabic for Narration in the Palestinian Oral History

Abstract

The Language of oral utterance differs in displaying or publishing it

in many historical writings which sought to document the contemporary

and modern Palestinian history. Some writers showed the language of oral

utterance in standard Arabic language , and others showed it as the narrator

narrates it in his Palestinian colloquial accent.

This research is going to focus on two important affairs: Firstly; The

language of oral interview. Will it be by the researcher’s question to the

narrator , or in the narrator’s answer to the researcher’s question in standard

Arabic language ,or in the Palestinian colloquial accent and what is the effect

of that on the oral interview, as well as it’s effect on the essence of what the

tells narrates of events and stories which he lived?

Secondly; The language of oral utterance in displaying and publishing it.

Will it be displayed or published in standard language even if the narrator

narrated his utterance in his Palestinian colloquial accent , or will it be

presented as the narrator narrated it without changes in some or all the

vocabulary which appeared in the oral utterance and it’s relation with the

system of writing and the historical Document ?