Arabic and the media
Subtitle: linguistic analyses and applications
By: edited by Reem Bassiouney.
Contributors: Bassiouney, Reem.
Series: Studies in Semitic languages and linguistics -- v. 57
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Subjects: Mass media and language -- Arab countries; Diglossia (Linguistics) -- Arab countries; Code-switching (Linguistics) -- Arab countries; Arabic language -- Discourse analysis; Arabic language -- Variation; Arabic language -- Rhetoric; Arabic language -- Usage
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Newspaper language. The evolution and role of newspapers / Jean Aitchison; title: Cases of written code-switching in Egyptian opposition newspapers / Zeinab Ibrahim; title: Communities of use in Arabic newspaper language : the meaning of the country effect / Dilworth Parkinson; title: Arabic variation and the media. Arabic oral media and corpus linguistics : a first methodological outline / Marc Van-Mol; title: Patterns and predictions for code-switching with Arabic / Carol Myers-Scotton; title: Identity and code-choice in the speech of educated women and men in Egypt : evidence from talk shows / Reem Bassiouney; title: H. al id-Dunya : an Arabic news bulletin in colloquial (ammiyya) / Madiha Doss; title: Performance, language and power : Nasrallah's rhetoric and mediated charisma in the context of the 2006 July War / Dina Matar; title: Pidginisation in the Eastern Region of Saudi Arabia : media presentation / Munira Al-Azraqi; title: Internet bulletin boards in Saudi Arabia : analogues of change and resistance / Nadav Samin; title: Linguistic varieties in twenty first century Arabic novels : an applied study / Soha Abboud-Haggar; title: Applications : approaching media in the classroom. Media Arabic as a regional standard / Karin Christina Ryding; title: A framework for teaching vocabulary through printed media / Raghda El-Essawy; title: The place of media in the Arabic language / Mahmoud Abdalla.