Arabic sociolinguistics : issues & perspectives
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Arabic sociolinguistics : issues & perspectives
Curzon Press, 1994
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Description
A coherent and stimulating survey of current research.
Table of Contents
- One: Identity and Loyalty
- 1: Nationalism and the Arabic Language: An Historical Overview *
- 2: Algeria: Language, Nation and State
- 3: Language Loyalty: The Case of Algerian Immigrants' Children in France
- 4: Discriminating Texts: Orthographic Marking and Social Differentiation in the Court Records of Ottoman Damascus
- Two: Aspects of Linguistic Behaviour
- 5: "What's in a Name?": Women in Egyptian Obituaries *
- 6: Generations of Change in Name-Giving
- 7: Talking to Machines in Arabic
- 8: The Metalinguistic Joke: Sociolinguistic Dimensions of an Arabic Folk Genre
- Three: Varieties and Variation
- 9: Speaking Fu??? in Cairo: the Role of the Ending Vowels
- 10: Attitudinal Reactions to Language Change in an Urban Setting
- 11: The Situation Of Arabic In Israel
- Four: Theoretical Issues
- 12: On the Definition of Dialect with Reference to Yemeni Dialects of Arabic
- 13: Medieval Arabic as a Form of 'Social Contract', with Special Reference to Ibn-Hish?m's Mughn? Al-Lab?b * .
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