Language Contact and Language Conflict in Arabic: Variations on a Sociolinguistic Theme (Routledge Arabic Linguistics Series) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0415567793 ISBN 13: 9780415567794

Publisher: Routledge, 2009

Synopsis

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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About the Author

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

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415567793
• ISBN 13: 9780415567794
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 380
• Editor: Rouchdy Aleya