Language Contact and Language Conflict in Arabic
1st Edition
Published on 20. November 2009
Book
Paperback/Softback
362 pages
978-0-415-56779-4 (ISBN)
Description
This book contains 17 studies by leading international scholars working on a wide range of topics in Arabic socio-linguistics, divided into four parts. The studies in Part 1 address questions of national language planning in a diglossic situation, with a particular focus on North Africa. Part 2 explores the relationship of identity and language choice in different Arabic-speaking communities living both within and outside the Arab World. Part 3 examines language choice in such diverse contexts as popular preaching, humour and Arab women's writing. Part 4 contains 5 papers in which variation, code-switching and generational language shift in the Arabic-language diaspora in Europe and the USA are the focus. The collection as a whole provides wide-ranging introduction to key areas of current research, which will be of interest to the general sociolinguist as well as the Arabic language specialist.
Reviews / Votes
'The great value of this volume is that it offers a highly diverse picture of the wide spectrum of topics found in the study of language contact in relation to the study of the Arabic language today ... I therefore do not hesitate to recommend it!' - Biblioteca OrientalisMore details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
576 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-415-56779-4 (9780415567794)
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Content
Preface Introduction Part I: Diglossia and Language Planning 1 Approaching Diglossia: Authorities, Values, and Representations 2 Dialect Levelling in Tunisian Arabic: Towards a New Spoken Standard 3 Education as a Speaker Variable 4 Algerie: de l'Arabe a l'Arabisation 5 Language Contact, Arabization Policy and Education in Morocco Part II: Language and Identity 6 Identity and Language Tension in Lebanon: The Arabic of Local News at LBCI 7 The Language of Introduction in the City of Fes: The Gender-Identity Interaction 8 Language Conflict and Identity: Arabic in the American Diaspora 9 Speak Arabic Please!: Tunisian Arabic Speakers' Linguistic Accommodation to Middle Easterners Part III: Language Choice 10 De la Variation Linguistique dans le Preche Populaire Mauritanien 11 Language is a Choice: Variation in Egyptian Women's Written Discourse 12 Jeux de Langues: Humor and Codeswitching in the Maghreb Part IV: Arabic in the Diaspora 13 Moroccan Arabic in the European Diaspora 14 Arabic and English in Conflict: Iraqis in the UK 15 Repetition Phenomena in Insertional Codeswitching 16 Second Generation Shifts in Sociopragmatic Orientation and Codeswitching Patterns 17 Codeswitch Fluency and Language Attrition in an Arab Immigrant Community