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Arabic in the City: Issues in Dialect Contact and Language Variation

Arabic in the City: Issues in Dialect Contact and Language Variation

Miller, Catherine
Al-Wer, Enam
Caubet, Dominique

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Series: Routledge Arabic Linguistics

ArabicGeneral Sociology

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ISBN10: 0415762170
ISBN13: 9780415762175
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Aug 21 2015
Pages: 370
Language: English

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 processes of standardization due to the coexistence of competing linguistic models. Topics investigated include:

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