Language and Identity in the Arab World

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List of Contributors



Preface

INTRODUCTION

Sandhya Rao Mehta

PART 1: LINGUISTIC LANDSCAPES






Persia and Oman: A Historical and Linguistic Intersection
Roberta Morano




Landscaping in Moroccan Arabic: Practices, Ideologies and Inertias
Adil Moustaoui




Arabic in Michigan: An American Linguistic Landscape
Camelia Suleiman




Translanguaging in Gulf Higher Education
Sarah Hopkyns






Linguistic and Conceptual Challenges of Public Opinion Surveys in the Arab Gulf States
Russell Lucas

PART II: UNPACKING IDENTITIES




A Place to Belong: The Social Construction of Badu identity in Harub, Saudi Arabia
Julie Lowry




Intersecting Scapes, Global Flows, and New Identity Options: Female Qatari Students' Informal Learning of Turkish Language
Sarah Hillman




Arab Influencers and Social Media: A Sociolinguistic Study of a New Culture
Mai Zaki and Meis Al-Kaisi




Multilingualism in Lebanon: Code-switching as a Cultural Representation
Lubna Bassam






Perceptions towards Codeswitching and Identity in the Egyptian Context
Nadia A. Shalaby



PART III: ARABIC IN MIGRANT COMMUNITIES




Dialect Variation among Omani Migrants in Muscat: The Construction of Social Identity through Style Shifting
Suaad Ambu-Saidi




Identity Suppression as a Coping Strategy: The Case of Socotri Africans
Eleonora Esposito and Sarali Gintsburg




The Role of Education and Dialect Contact in the Realization of DHAA & THAA in a Community of Palestinian Refugees in Syria
Ourooba Shetewi






Family Language Policy between Ideology and Practice: A Domain-based Exploration of Arabic as a Heritage Language in the USA
Reda Mohammed




The Linguistics of ?a?rami Arabic in the Speech of ?a?rami-descent Community of Indonesia

Abdullah Al Saqqaf

Index