Arabic Sociolinguistics
Subtitle: Issues and Perspectives
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: RoutledgeCurzon
Published: January 17, 1995
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9780700703074
Subjects: Islamic studies; Social aspects; Language Arts / Linguistics / Literacy; Afro-Asiatic Languages; Arabic; Language; Sociolinguistics; Ethnic Studies - General; Social Science / Ethnic Studies; Arab countries; Arabic Language; Language and culture
First sentence: "It is easy for speakers of English, secure in the imperialism or even colonialism of their language- conquering and settling, as it were, whole vocabularies of German, French ... and Arabic- to scorn what appears to be puerile or at least pedantic defensive linguistics.