Arabic in the City
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Routledge
Published: February 12, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9780415773119
Subjects: Dialectology; Sociolinguistics; Language Arts & Disciplines; Foreign Language - Dictionaries / Phrase Books; Language; Arabic; Foreign Language Study / Arabic; Linguistics; Arab countries; Arabic language; Dialects; Urban dialects; Variation
Description: 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.
Notes: Routledge Arabic Linguistics