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Language Contact and Language Conflict in Arabic: Variations on a Sociolinguistic Theme
Author(s): Aleya Rouchdy
- Publisher: Routledge
- Publication Date: 8 Aug. 2002
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 376 pages
- ISBN-10: 0700713794
- ISBN-13: 9780700713790
Book Description
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.
Editorial Reviews
Review
‘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
About the Author
Aleya Rouchdy, Wayne State University, U.S.A.
