Arabic in the city
Subtitle: issues in dialect contact and language variation
By: edited by Catherine Miller ... [et al.].
Contributors: Miller, Catherine, 1955-
Series: Routledgecurzon Arabic linguistics series
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780415773119; 9780203933367
Subjects: Arabic language -- Dialects; Arabic language -- Variation; Urban dialects -- Arab countries; Arabic language -- Social aspects; Languages in contact -- Arab countries
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Arabic urban vernaculars : development and changes / Catherine Miller; title: Migration, urbanization and language change. The (r)urbanisation of Mauritania : historical context and contemporary developments / Catherine Taine Cheikh; title: The formation of the dialect of Amman : from chaos to order / Enam Al-Wer; title: Urbanization and dialect change : the Arabic dialect of Tripoli (Libya) / Christophe Pereira; title: Becoming Casablancan : Fessis in Casablanca as a case study / Atiqa Hachimi; title: Two cases of Moroccan Arabic in the Diaspora / Angeles Vicente; title: Urban vernaculars : convergence and divergence. Greetings in Beirut : social distribution and attitudes towards different formulae / Marie Aymee Germanos; title: Linguistic levelling in San'ani Arabic as reflected in a popular radio serial / Janet Watson; title: The urban and suburban modes : patterns of linguistic variation and change in Damascus / Hanadi Ismail; title: Segmental and prosodic aspects of Ksar el Kebir's neo-urban variety / Mohamed Embarki; title: The Use of Kashkasha/kaskasa and alternative means among educated urban Saudi speakers / Munira Al-Azraki; title: Multilingualism, codeswitching and new urban cultures. Close encounters of a different kind : two types of insertion in Nigerian Arabic codeswitching / Jonathan Owens; title: Development and linguistic change in Moroccan Arabic-French Codeswitching / Karima Ziamari; title: The language of Cairos' young university students / Sherin Rizk; title: Rap and rappers in Nouakchott, (Mauritania) / Aline Tauzin; title: Uses and attitudes towards Hassaniyya language among Nouakchotts negro-Mauritanian population / Alassane Dia.