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This study examines anecdote as one of the most intriguing and classical narratives in Arabic and non-Arabic literature. Anecdote perhaps, written or oral, has a great agency to disseminate widely among people more than other narratives. Methodologically, the study uses stylistics, pragmatics and discourse analysis alongside with the features of anecdote genre, determined by the French critic Alain Montandon, in order to investigate characteristics of a selected anecdote. Although Montandon views anecdote features as simplicity, briefness, representation, and stimulus of thinking (a description borrowed from foreign literature), this does not mean that such features cannot be used to examine anecdote in Arab literature. I have chosen one classical anecdote composed by Abu Uthman Al-Jahiz in his The Book of Misers. “AL-BUKHALA” It has been a well-articulated example of how the author artistically formed his numerous stories and anecdotes.
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