1st Edition
Language and Society in the Middle East and North Africa
Edited By Yasir Suleiman
Copyright 1999
304 Pages
by
Routledge
304 Pages
by
Routledge
290 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book investigates issues of central importance in understanding the role of language in society in the Middle East and North Africa. In particular, it covers issues of collective identity and variation as they relate to Arabic, Berber, English, Persian and Turkish in the fields of gender, national affiliation, the debate over authenticity and modernity, language reforms and language legislation. In addition, the book investigates how some of these issues are realized in the diaspora at both the micro and macro levels.
Introduction; 1: Language and Political Conflict in the Middle East; 2: Why Do Different Variables Behave Differently? Data from Arabic; 3: Sociolinguistic Reflexes of Socio-Political Patterns in Bethlehem; 4: Hebrew and English Borrowings Inpalestinian Arabic in Israel:; 5: Pronouns and Self Presentation in Public Discourse; 6: Language Choice, Language Policy and the Tradition-Modernity Debate in Culturally Mixed Postcolonial Communities; 7: The Status of Berber; 8: Comparative Perspectives on Language Planning in Iran and Tajikistan; 9: The Story of a Failed Attempt; 10: Gender in a Genderless Language; 11: The Sociolinguistic Connotations of /p/ and /v/ in Cairo Arabic; 12: Language and Diaspora; 13: Sociolinguistic Meaning in Code-Switching; 14: The Arabic Proverb and the Speech Community
Biography
Yasir Suleiman
'Suleiman has done an outstanding job in editing these important sociolinguistic and anthropologically-oriented studies.' - Alan S. Kaye, Bulletin of SOAS
'the volume succeeds in giving a sense of unity - thanks to the guiding hand of the editor.' - International Journal of the Sociology of Language
