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Arabic in the city : issues in dialect contact and language variation / edited by Catherine Miller ... [and others]
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Routledge Arabic linguistics series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Arabic language--Dialects.
- Arabic language.
- Arabic language--Variation.
- Urban dialects--Arab countries.
- Urban dialects.
- Arabic language--Social aspects.
- Languages in contact--Arab countries.
- Languages in contact.
- Arab countries.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 354 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Routledge, 2007.
- Contents:
- 1 Arabic urban vernaculars: development and change / Catherine Miller 1
- Part I Migration, urbanization and language change 33
- 2 The (r)urbanization of Mauritania: historical context and contemporary developments / Catherine Taine-Cheikh 35
- 3 The formation of the dialect of Amman: from chaos to order / Enam Al-Wer 55
- 4 Urbanization and dialect change: the Arabic dialect of Tripoli (Libya) / Christophe Pereira 77
- 5 Becoming Casablancan: Fessis in Casablanca as a case study / Atiqa Hachimi 97
- 6 Two cases of Moroccan Arabic in the diaspora / Angeles Vicente 123
- Part II Urban vernaculars: convergence and divergence 145
- 7 Greetings in Beirut: social distribution and attitudes towards different formulae / Marie-Aimee Germanos 147
- 8 Linguistic leveling in San'ani Arabic as reflected in a popular radio serial / Janet C. E. Watson 166
- 9 The urban and suburban modes: patterns of linguistic variation and change in Damascus / Hanadi Ismail 188
- 10 Segmental and prosodic aspects of Ksar el Kebir's neo-urban variety / Mohamed Embarki 213
- 11 The use of kaskasah/kaskasah and alternative means among educated urban Saudi speakers / Munira Al-Azraqi 230
- Part III Multilingualism, codeswitching and new urban cultures 247
- 12 Close encounters of a different kind: two types of insertion in Nigerian Arabic codeswitching / Jonathan Owens 249
- 13 Development and linguistic change in Moroccan Arabic-French codeswitching / Karima Ziamari 275
- 14 The language of Cairo's young university students / Sherin Rizk 291
- 15 Rap and rappers in Nouakchott (Mauritania) / Aline Tauzin 309
- 16 Uses and attitudes towards Hassaniyya among Nouakchott's Negro-Mauritanian population / Alassane Dia 325.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780415773119
- 0415773113
- 9780203933367
- 0203933362
- OCLC:
- 154677539
- Online:
- Publisher description
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