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Arabic Writing in the Digital Age: Towards a Theoretical Framework book cover

1st Edition

Arabic Writing in the Digital Age Towards a Theoretical Framework

By Saussan Khalil Copyright 2022
186 Pages 10 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

186 Pages 10 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

186 Pages 10 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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The written and spoken forms of Arabic have been traditionally viewed as separate forms of the language that rarely overlap in writing, but this book will examine the recently emerged concept of ‘mixed’ writing that combines both written and spoken forms. This book takes a close look at different examples of mixed Arabic writing in modern (twentieth to twenty-first t century) print and online... Read more

Contents

List of Figures

Acknowledgements

  1. Introduction

  2. Variation in Arabic

  3. A delineation of variation in Arabic

  4. The proposed theoretical framework: seven writing styles

  5. A practical application of the writing styles in online writing

  6. Colloquial Written Arabic in print, in various dialects

  7. Children’s literature and early literacy
  8. Conclusion

Index

Biography

Saussan Khalil, Senior Arabic Language Teacher, Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Cambridge, UK. Founder & Director, Kalamna CIC (www.kalamna.org).

"The linguistic phenomenon of Arabic code-switching and translanguaging in written Arabic has recently emerged as a powerful form of communication online. The connection between these forms of communication and the socio-political impact they have within the ongoing tumultuous transformations in the Arab world makes this study very appealing. It is true that things move and change very rapidly in the linguistic realm of cyber communication, but such is the rigorous approach on which the book is based, that I believe this would be a book that will continue to be used in years to come, also by virtue of its being an original, indeed pioneering, study that addresses the colloquial/standard variation of written Arabic."

- Fabio Caiani, Department of Arabic and Persian, University of St. Andrews, UK

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