The Routledge Handbook of Arabic and Identity

Table of Contents

Notes on the Contributors

List of Figures

List of Tables

Acknowledgements

Introduction and Overview

Introduction: The Arabic Language and Identity

Keith Walters

Part I - Identity and Variation

1. From Rajjal to Rayyal: Ideologies and shift among young Bedouins in Qatar

Rizwan Ahmad and Heba Al-Kababji

2. The emergence of a new national linguistic variety in Saudi Arabia: A perceptual dialectology account



Yousef Al-Rojaie



3. Identity and/or acts of identity in light of discourse markers in spoken Arabic

Abdelaadim Bidaoui

4. The expression of rural and urban identities in Arabic



Ahmed Ech-Charfi



5. Optional You? and the invocation of shared identity in Levantine Arabic



Youssef Haddad



6. Saudi folks' attitudes and Pprceptions toward accent switches: The /k/ reflexes across dialects



Manal Ismail



7. Language and identity in post-Revolution Tunisia between authenticity and commodification



Lotfi Sayahi





8. Attitudes to language in the Arab World



Nadia Shalaby



Part II - Identity and Politics



9. Arabic language ideologies: Diglossia



Ashraf Abdelhay and Yasir Suleiman



10. Egyptian identities at times of crisis



Amira Agameya



11. Pan-Arab identity in the post-Arab-Spring Era



Abdulkafi Albirini



12. Arabic and identity in (the conflict-ridden reality in) Israel



Muhammad Amara



13. The discursive construction of Jordanian identity in online discourse



Muhammad Badarneh



14. Erasing Arabic as an entrance ticket to Israeli society: On orientalism, militarism and the Mizrahi option in Israel/Palestine



Yonatan Mendel

Part III - Identity Globalisation and Diversity



15. Language and identity construction in the Arabian Gulf: Challenges faced in a globalized world



Ahmad Al-Issa and Laila S. Dahan



16. Arabic(s) in diaspora: Speakers, usages and contacts



Alexandrine Barontini and Lauren Wagner



17. Complex identities: Arabic in the diaspora

Luca D'Anna & Chiara Amoruso

Index