ABSTRACT
The Routledge Handbook of Arabic and Identity offers a comprehensive and up-to-date account of studies that relate the Arabic language in its entirety to identity. This handbook offers new trajectories in understanding language and identity more generally and Arabic and identity in particular.
Split into three parts, covering ‘Identity and Variation’, ‘Identity and Politics’ and ‘Identity Globalisation and Diversity’, it is the first of its kind to offer such a perspective on identity, linking the social world to identity construction and including issues pertaining to our current political and social context, including Arabic in the diaspora, Arabic as a minority language, pidgin and creoles, Arabic in the global age, Arabic and new media, Arabic and political discourse.
Scholars and students will find essential theories and methods that relate language to identity in this handbook. It is particularly of interest to scholars and students whose work is related to the Arab world, political science, modern political thought, Islam and social sciences including: general linguistics, sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, anthropological linguistics, anthropology, political science, sociology, psychology, literature media studies and Islamic studies.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |10 pages
Introduction and overview
part I|133 pages
Identity and variation
chapter 2|25 pages
The emergence of a national koiné in Saudi Arabia
chapter 6|15 pages
Saudi folks’ attitudes and perceptions towards accent switches
chapter 7|12 pages
Language and identity in post-Revolution Tunisia
part II|86 pages
Identity and politics
chapter 9|14 pages
Diglossia, folk-linguistics, and language anxiety
chapter 14|13 pages
The de-Arabised Israeli Arabic
part III|42 pages
Identity globalisation and diversity