Language Contact and Language Conflict in Arabic
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Overview
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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- ISBN-13: 9780415567794
- ISBN-10: 0415567793
- Publisher: Routledge
- Publish Date: November 2009
- Dimensions: 9.21 x 6.14 x 0.78 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.17 pounds
- Page Count: 362
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