Arabic Sociolinguistics | Issues and Perspectives | Yasir Suleiman | T

ABSTRACT

A coherent and stimulating survey of current research.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

part One|77 pages

Identity and Loyalty

chapter 1|22 pages

Nationalism and the Arabic Language: An Historical Overview *

chapter 2|17 pages

Algeria: Language, Nation and State

chapter 3|13 pages

Language Loyalty: The Case of Algerian Immigrants' Children in France

chapter 4|21 pages

Discriminating Texts: Orthographic Marking and Social Differentiation in the Court Records of Ottoman Damascus

part Two|98 pages

Aspects of Linguistic Behaviour

chapter 5|20 pages

“What's in a Name?”: Women in Egyptian Obituaries *

chapter 6|25 pages

Generations of Change in Name-Giving

chapter 7|28 pages

Talking to Machines in Arabic

chapter 8|22 pages

The Metalinguistic Joke: Sociolinguistic Dimensions of an Arabic Folk Genre

part Three|58 pages

Varieties and Variation

chapter 9|33 pages

Speaking Fuṣḥā in Cairo: the Role of the Ending Vowels

chapter 10|13 pages

Attitudinal Reactions to Language Change in an Urban Setting

chapter 11|8 pages

The Situation Of Arabic In Israel

part Four|39 pages

Theoretical Issues

chapter 12|14 pages

On the Definition of Dialect with Reference to Yemeni Dialects of Arabic

chapter 13|23 pages

Medieval Arabic as a Form of ‘Social Contract', with Special Reference to Ibn-Hishām's Mughnī Al-Labīb * .