| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 238 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Contents |
Cover -- Half-title page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Maps -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgements -- Transcription, Symbols, and Abbreviations -- Abbreviations -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Arabic Dialectology -- 1.2 The Variationist Approach to Arabic Sociolinguistics -- 1.3 Diglossia and Code-Switching -- 1.4 The Link to Historical Linguistics -- 1.5 Variation and Change -- 1.6 Layout of the Book -- 1.7 Further Reading -- 2 Methodology: Principles and Practice -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Research Design -- 2.3 The Observer's Paradox |
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2.4 Interviews, Elicitation, and Other Strategies -- 2.5 The Ethnographic Approach -- 2.6 The Subject of Investigation: Linguistic Variables -- 2.7 Defining a Variable and Range of Variation -- 2.8 Age -- 2.9 Analysis -- 2.10 Ethics -- 2.11 Further Reading -- 2.12 Exercises for Chapter 2 -- 3 Gender -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 General Principles -- 3.3 Gender and the Notion of Standard in Arabic -- 3.4 Local and Supralocal Features -- 3.5 Gender-Differentiated Findings in Arabic Vernaculars -- 3.6 Further Reading -- 3.7 Exercises for Chapter 3 -- 4 Education -- 4.1 Introduction |
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4.2 Education as a Proxy Variable -- 4.3 Changes in Educational Opportunities and Experiences -- 4.4 Type of Education: Two Case Studies -- 4.5 Concluding Remarks -- 4.6 Further Reading -- 4.7 Exercises for Chapter 4 -- 5 Social Stratification -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 The Classic Social Class Paradigm -- 5.3 Social Network -- 5.4 Regionality -- 5.5 Life-Mode -- 5.6 Community of Practice -- 5.7 Summary -- 5.8 Further Reading -- 5.9 Exercises for Chapter 5 -- 6 Religion and Ethnicity -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Jewish Varieties of Arabic -- 6.3 Druze Varieties in the Levant |
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6.4 Communal Dialects in Baghdad -- 6.5 The ʿArab and Baharna Dialects in Bahrain -- 6.6 Sunna and Shi'a in Al-Ahsa -- 6.7 Christians and Muslims in Jordan -- 6.8 ʿIzbat Basili, Upper Egypt -- 6.9 Ethnicity, Religion, and Language Shift -- 6.10 Further Reading -- 6.11 Exercises for Chapter 6 -- 7 Language Change -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 Historical Linguistics -- 7.3 The Relationship between Variation and Change -- 7.4 Studying Change in Real Time -- 7.5 Studying Change in Apparent Time -- 7.6 Variation without Change -- 7.7 Variation Indicating Change in Progress -- 7.8 Types of Change |
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7.9 Concluding Remarks -- 7.10 Further Reading -- 7.11 Exercises for Chapter 7 -- 8 Spatial Variation -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 Language and Geography -- 8.3 Linguistic Atlases: An Overview -- 8.4 Atlases as a Source of Data -- 8.5 Waterways as Carriers of Linguistic Features -- 8.6 Focal and Relic Areas -- 8.7 Arabic-Based Creoles -- 8.8 Further Reading -- 8.9 Exercises for Chapter 8 -- 9 Contact and Diffusion -- 9.1 Introduction -- 9.2 Regional Standards -- 9.3 Diffusion across the Language Barrier -- 9.4 Borrowing and Substrate Effects -- 9.5 Areal Groupings |
| Summary |
"This book is intended as a textbook and as a resource for research on variation and change in Arabic. The book was designed with a wide range of readers in mind, including students of Arabic linguistics, scholars in linguistics who may or may not know Arabic, and anyone who wishes to expand their knowledge about sociolinguistic theory and methodology as applied to Arabic data"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 11, 2022) |
| Subject |
Sociolinguistics -- Arab countries
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Arabic language -- Variation
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Linguistic change -- Arab countries
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Arabic language -- Variation.
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Linguistic change.
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Sociolinguistics.
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Arab countries.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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Textbooks.
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Textbooks.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Horesh, Uri, author.
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Herin, Bruno, author
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Jong, Rudolf de, author.
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| LC no. |
2022000818 |
| ISBN |
9781316863060 |
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1316863069 |
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