Arabic in the city : issues in dialect contact and language variation /: issues in dialect contact and language variation. (2007)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Catherine Miller [and three others].
• Editors: Miller, Catherine, 1955-
• Contents: Arabic urban vernaculars : development and changes / Catherine Miller -- Migration, urbanization and language change. The (r)urbanisation of Mauritania : historical context and contemporary developments / Catherine Taine Cheikh -- The formation of the dialect of Amman : from chaos to order / Enam Al-Wer -- Urbanization and dialect change : the Arabic dialect of Tripoli (Libya) / Christophe Pereira -- Becoming Casablancan : Fessis in Casablanca as a case study / Atiqa Hachimi -- Two cases of Moroccan Arabic in the Diaspora / Angeles Vicente -- Urban vernaculars : convergence and divergence. Greetings in Beirut : social distribution and attitudes towards different formulae / Marie Aymee Germanos -- Linguistic levelling in San'ani Arabic as reflected in a popular radio serial / Janet Watson -- The urban and suburban modes : patterns of linguistic variation and change in Damascus / Hanadi Ismail -- Segmental and prosodic aspects of Ksar el Kebir's neo-urban variety / Mohamed Embarki -- The Use of Kashkasha/kaskasa and alternative means among educated urban Saudi speakers / Munira Al-Azraki -- Multilingualism, codeswitching and new urban cultures. Close encounters of a different kind : two types of insertion in Nigerian Arabic codeswitching / Jonathan Owens -- Development and linguistic change in Moroccan Arabic-French Codeswitching / Karima Ziamari -- The language of Cairos' young university students / Sherin Rizk -- Rap and rappers in Nouakchott, (Mauritania) / Aline Tauzin -- Uses and attitudes towards Hassaniyya language among Nouakchotts negro-Mauritanian population / Alassane Dia.
• Publisher Details: Place of publication not identified : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2007
• Extent: 1 online resource (368 pages), (37 illustrations)
• Subjects: 492.7/7; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies; Arabic language -- Dialects; Arabic language -- Variation; Urban dialects -- Arab countries; Arabic language -- Social aspects; Languages in contact -- Arab countries; Arabisch; Dialecten; Arabic language -- Dialects; Arabic language -- Social aspects; Arabic language -- Variation; Languages in contact; Urban dialects; Arabisch; Mundart; Soziolinguistik; Stadtmundart; Arabisch; Dialecten; Mundart; Soziolinguistik; Stadtmundart; Marokko; Arab countries; Marokko; Arabisch; Aufsatzsammlung
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781135978754; 1135978751
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.