Overview

While the issue of language contact appears regularly in the literature on sociolinguistics generally, little has been published on language contacts and conflict in Arabic. This volume aims to fill that gap through introducing a variety of research topics where different scholars view the theme of language contact from their various standpoints. The articles thus investigate language contact and conflict issues across the full range of Arabic as it is used both in the Arabic world and in the diaspora. 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.

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Author:   Aleya Rouchdy
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.70cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.740kg
ISBN:  

9780700713790

ISBN 10:   0700713794
Pages:   384
Publication Date:   08 August 2002
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

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 Algérie: de l'Arabe à 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 Fès: 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 Prêche 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

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'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 Orientalis

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Aleya Rouchdy, Wayne State University, U.S.A.

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