| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 354 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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Routledge Arabic linguistics series |
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Routledge Arabic linguistics series.
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| Contents |
Arabic urban vernaculars : development and change / Catherine Miller -- Migration, urbanization and language change. The (r)urbanization of Mauritania : historical context and contemporary developments / Catherine Taine-Cheikh -- The formation of the dialect of Amman : from chaos to order / Enam Al-Wer -- Urbanization and dialect change : the Arabic dialect of Tripoli (Libya) / Christophe Pereira -- Becoming Casablancan : Fessis in Casablanca as a case study / Atiqa Hachimi -- Two cases of Moroccan Arabic in the diaspora / Ángeles Vicente -- Urban vernaculars : convergence and divergence. Greetings in Beirut : social distribution and attitudes towards different formulae / Marie Aimée Germanos -- Linguistic leveling in San'ani Arabic as reflected in a popular radio serial / Janet C.E. Watson -- The urban and suburban modes : patterns of linguistic variation and change in Damascus / Hanadi Ismail -- Segmental and prosodic aspects of Ksar el Kebir's neo-urban variety / Mohamed Embarki -- The use of kaškašah/kaskasah and alternative means among educated urban Saudi speakers / Munira Al-Azraqi -- Multilingualism, codeswitching and new urban cultures. Close encounters of a different kind : two types of insertion in Nigerian Arabic codeswitching / Jonathan Owens -- Development and linguistic change in Moroccan Arabic-French codeswitching / Karima Ziamari -- The language of Cairos' young university students / Sherin Rizk -- Rap and rappers in Nouakchott (Mauritania) / Aline Tauzin -- Uses and attitudes towards Hassaniyya among Nouakchott's Negro-Mauritanian population / Alassane Dia |
| Summary |
Filling a gap in the literature currently available on the topic, this edited collection is the first examination of the interplay between urbanization, language variation and language change in fifteen major Arab cities. The Arab world presents very different types and degrees of urbanization, from well established old capital-cities such as Cairo to new emerging capital-cities such as Amman or Nouakchott, these in turn embedded in different types of national construction. It is these urban settings which raise questions concerning the dynamics of homogenization/differentiation and the processes of standardization due to the coexistence of competing linguistic models |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
In English with some Arabic text |
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Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force. WlAbNL |
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Print version record |
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Arabic language -- Dialects.
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Arabic language -- Variation
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Urban dialects -- Arab countries
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Arabic language -- Social aspects
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Languages in contact -- Arab countries
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FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY -- Arabic.
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Arabic language -- Dialects
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Arabic language -- Social aspects
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Arabic language -- Variation
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Languages in contact
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Urban dialects
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Mundart
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Soziolinguistik
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Stadtmundart
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Arabisch
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Arabisch.
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Dialecten.
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Arab countries
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Marokko.
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Arabisch.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Miller, Catherine, 1955- editor.
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Al-Wer, Enam, editor.
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Caubet, Dominique, editor.
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Watson, Janet C. E., editor.
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| ISBN |
9780203933367 |
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0203933362 |
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9781135978761 |
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113597876X |
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9781135978754 |
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1135978751 |
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9786611101800 |
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6611101802 |
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