ABSTRACT
This book investigates issues of central importance in understanding the role of language in society in the Middle East and North Africa. In particular, it covers issues of collective identity and variation as they relate to Arabic, Berber, English, Persian and Turkish in the fields of gender, national affiliation, the debate over authenticity and modernity, language reforms and language legislation. In addition, the book investigates how some of these issues are realized in the diaspora at both the micro and macro levels.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter 1|28 pages
Language and Political Conflict in the Middle East
A Study in Symbolic Sociolinguistics
chapter 3|23 pages
Sociolinguistic Reflexes of Socio-Political Patterns in Bethlehem
Preliminary Studies
chapter 4|23 pages
Hebrew and English Borrowings Inpalestinian Arabic in Israel:
A Sociolinguistic Study in Lexical Integration and Diffusion
chapter 6|15 pages
Language Choice, Language Policy and the Tradition-Modernity Debate in Culturally Mixed Postcolonial Communities
France and the ‘Francophone' Maghreb as a Case Study
chapter 9|15 pages
The Story of a Failed Attempt
1997 Draft Bill on the Correct use of Turkish Language
