Language Contact and Language Conflict in Arabic: Variations on a Sociolinguistic Theme

Aleya Rouchdy

Psychology Press, 2002 - Foreign Language Study - 358 pages

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.

Contents

• Language and Identity: 89
• Language Choice: 175
• Arabic in the Diaspora: 257
• Index: 353

About the author

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

Bibliographic information

• Title: Language Contact and Language Conflict in Arabic: Variations on a Sociolinguistic Theme; Volume 3 of Curzon Arabic linguistics series; Curzon studies in Arabic linguistics
• Editor: Aleya Rouchdy
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Psychology Press, 2002
• ISBN: 0700713794, 9780700713790
• Length: 358 pages
• Subjects: Foreign Language Study / Arabic; Language Arts & Disciplines / General; Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / General; Social Science / Regional Studies