واقعُ اللُّغَةِ العربيَّةِ فِي الشعْرِ الْفُكَاهِيِ المُعَاصِر
THE REALITY OF THE ARABIC LANGUAGE IN CONTEMPORARY HUMOROUS ARABIC POETRY

Summary/Abstract: The present paper seeks to provide an insight into the usage of the Arabic language in contemporary humorous poetry, by assessing the extent to which the terms, structures and expressions occurring therein are close to or far from formal Arabic, and by studying the interaction of such a variation with the levels of poetic speech that can be identified within this genre, which is known for blending, in fluctuating proportions and different circumstances, elements of colloquial Arabic or borrowings from other languages in texts that can otherwise be written in accordance with the norms of classical Arabic. These phenomena and their impact on the language of contemporary poetry have been investigated in connection with the works of a number of prominent authors of humorous poetry from several Arab countries, such as: Abd al-Hamid al-Deeb, Hassan Jad, Hussein Shafiq, Hafez Ibrahim, Mahmoud Ghanim, Bayram al-Tunisi, Muhammad al-Asmar, and Ali al-Jundi, Ahmed Matar, Ahmed Rafiq, Ibrahim Tuqan, Yasser Qatamesh, Mustafa Rajab, and others. The type of poetic discourse known as “dreaming poetry”, which expresses people’s pains and grievances in a funny and sarcastic manner, criticizing some social and political situations in a special, distinctive language, is yet another aspect that was not lost in this research.

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