Modern Arabic Sociolinguistics outlines and evaluates the major approaches and methods used in Arabic sociolinguistic research with respect to diglossia, codeswitching, language variation and attitudes and social identity. This book: outlines the main research findings in these core areas and relates them to a wide range of constructs, including social context, speech communities, prestige, power, language planning, gender and religion examines two emerging areas in Arabic sociolinguistic research, internet-mediated communication and heritage speakers, in relation to globalization, language dominance and interference and language loss and maintenance analyses the interplay between the various sociolinguistic aspects and examines the complex nature of the Arabic multidialectal, multinational, and multiethnic sociolinguistic situation. Based on the author’s recent fieldwork in several Arab countries this book is an essential resource for researchers and students of sociolinguistics, Arabic linguistics, and Arabic studies.
This book: outlines the main research findings in these core areas and relates them to a wide range of constructs, including social context, speech communities, prestige, power, language planning, gender and religion examines two emerging ...
The first introduction to the field of Arabic sociolinguistics, this book discusses major trends in research on diglossia, code-switching, gendered discourse, language variation and change, and language policies in relation to Arabic. In doing so, it introduces and evaluates the various theoretical approaches, and illustrates the usefulness and the limitations of these approaches with empirical data. The book shows how sociolinguistic theories can be applied to Arabic and, conversely, what the study of Arabic can contribute to our understanding of the function of language in society.
The first introduction to the field of Arabic sociolinguistics, this book discusses major trends in research on diglossia, code-switching, gendered discourse, language variation and change, and language policies in relation to Arabic.
First Published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
First Published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Benedicat etiam optimae ejus genti et sociis, viris coelitus adjutis et divinis
beneficiis ornatis; amplectatur hos omnes benedictione cujus vis et effectus
temporis vicissitudinibus superstes permaneat. - His rite praemissis, homo
divinae clementiae indigentissimus, Abulfeda Ismael fil. Ali, fil. Mahmudi, fil.
Muhammedis, fil. Omari, fil. Schahinschahi, fil. Jobi hunc in modum pergit: Venit
mihi in mentem, hoc opere historiarum antiquarum et islamicarum corpusculum
conficere, quo in modum ...
Arabic culture was a central and shaping phenomenon in medieval Europe, yet its influence on medieval literature has been ignored or marginalized for the last two centuries. In this ground-breaking book, now returned to print with a new afterword by the author, María Rosa Menocal argues that major modifications of the medieval canon and its literary history are necessary. Menocal reviews the Arabic cultural presence in a variety of key settings, including the courts of William of Aquitaine and Frederick II, the universities in London, Paris, and Bologna, and Cluny under Peter the Venerable, and she examines how our perception of specific texts including the courtly love lyric and the works of Dante and Boccaccio would be altered by an acknowledgment of the Arabic cultural component.
Even if this were an apocryphal and gross exaggeration serving to emphasize
the barbarity of the Christians from the Arab chronicler's point of view, we have
little reason to assume that the courts of Provence of the late eleventh century
were ...
Well-documented study of the mutual influence of Arabic and Western worlds during the Middle Ages traces the transmission of Greek philosophy and science to the Islamic cultures.
For the most part the true Arab party was, and still is, indifferent towards religion. “
The genuine Arab of the desert is, and remains at heart, a sceptic and a
materialist ; his hard, clear, keen, but somewhat narrow intelligence, ever alert in
its own ...
As previously stated, his Koran forms the basis of the literary edifice of Arab
literature, while he himself undoubtedly holds the first place in Arab history. As
the author and founder of a new religion, which both during his lifetime and after
his ...
