BOOK COVER; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; CONTENTS; LIST OF MAPS; LIST OF TABLES, FIGURES AND SPECTOGRAMS; CONTRIBUTORS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; NOTES ON THE TRANSLITERATION; 1 ARABIC URBAN VERNACULARS: DEVELOPMENT AND CHANGE; PART I: MIGRATION, URBANIZATION AND LANGUAGE CHANGE; 2 THE (R)URBANIZATION OF MAURITANIA: HISTORICAL CONTEXT AND CONTEMPORARY DEVELOPMENTS; 3 THE FORMATION OF THE DIALECT OF AMMAN: FROM CHAOS TO ORDER; 4 URBANIZATION AND DIALECT CHANGE: THE ARABIC DIALET OF TRIPOLI (LIBYA); 5 BECOMING CASABLANCAN: FESSIS IN CASABLANCA AS A CASE STUDY; 6 TWO CASES OF MOROCCAN ARABIC IN THE DIASPORA
Summary
Filling a gap in the dearth of literature currently available on the topic, this edited collection, containing a broad selection of case studies from across the Arab world, covers an important strand of sociolinguistics. It examines how urbanization is causing language change in major Arab cities
