Arabic in the city : issues in dialect contact and language variation / edited by Catherine Miller ... [et al.].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Miller, Catherine, 1955-

Series:

Routledge Arabic linguistics series ; 5.

Routledge Arabic linguistics series ; 5

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.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (369 p.)

Place of Publication:

London : Routledge, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 proc

Contents:

""BOOK COVER""; ""TITLE""; ""COPYRIGHT""; ""CONTENTS""; ""LIST OF MAPS""; ""LIST OF TABLES, FIGURES AND SPECTOGRAMS""; ""CONTRIBUTORS""; ""ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS""; ""NOTES ON THE TRANSLITERATION""; ""1 ARABIC URBAN VERNACULARS: DEVELOPMENT AND CHANGE""; ""PART I: MIGRATION, URBANIZATION AND LANGUAGE CHANGE""; ""2 THE (R)URBANIZATION OF MAURITANIA: HISTORICAL CONTEXT AND CONTEMPORARY DEVELOPMENTS""; ""3 THE FORMATION OF THE DIALECT OF AMMAN: FROM CHAOS TO ORDER""; ""4 URBANIZATION AND DIALECT CHANGE: THE ARABIC DIALET OF TRIPOLI (LIBYA)""

""5 BECOMING CASABLANCAN: FESSIS IN CASABLANCA AS A CASE STUDY""""6 TWO CASES OF MOROCCAN ARABIC IN THE DIASPORA""; ""PART II: URBAN VERNACULARS: CONVERGENCE AND DIVERGENCE""; ""7 GREETINGS IN BEIRUT: SOCIAL DISTRIBUTION AND ATTITUDES TOWARDS DIFFERENT FORMULAE""; ""8 LINGUISTIC LEVELING IN SAN�ANI ARABIC AS REFLECTED IN A POPULAR RADIO SERIAL""; ""9 THE URBAN AND SUBURBAN MODES: PATTERNS OF LINGUISTIC VARIATION AND CHANGE IN DAMASCUS""; ""10 SEGMENTAL AND PROSODIC ASPECTS OF KSAR EL KEBIR�S NEO-URBAN VARIETY""

""11 THE USE OF KASKASAH/KASKASAH AND ALTERNATIVE MEANS AMONG EDUCATED URBAN SAUDI SPEAKERS""""PART III: MULTILINGUALISM, CODESWITCHING AND NEW URBAN CULTURES""; ""12 CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF A DIFFERENT KIND: TWO TYPES OF INSERTION IN NIGERIAN ARABIC CODESWITCHING""; ""13 DEVELOPMENT AND LINGUISTIC CHANGE IN MOROCCAN ARABIC-FRENCH CODESWITCHING""; ""14 THE LANGUAGE OF CAIRO�S YOUNG UNIVERSITY STUDENTS""; ""15 RAP AND RAPPERS IN NOUAKCHOTT (MAURITANIA)""; ""16 USES AND ATTITUDES TOWARDS HASSANIYYA AMONG NOUAKCHOTT�S NEGRO-MAURITANIAN POPULATION""; ""INDEX""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-135-97875-1

1-135-97876-X

1-281-10180-X

9786611101800

0-203-93336-2

9780203933367

OCLC:

476123100