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1st Edition

Language and Identity in the Arab World

Edited By Fathiya Al Rashdi, Sandhya Rao Mehta Copyright 2023
344 Pages 55 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

344 Pages 55 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

344 Pages 55 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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Language and Identity in the Arab World explores the inextricable link between language and identity, referring particularly to the Arab world. Spanning Indonesia to the United States, the Arab world is here imagined as a continually changing one, with the Arab diaspora asserting its linguistic identity across the world. Crucial questions on transforming linguistic landscapes, the role and... Read more
  1. List of Tables

  2. List of Figures

  3. List of Maps

  4. List of Contributors

  5. Preface

INTRODUCTION

Sandhya Rao Mehta

PART 1: LINGUISTIC LANDSCAPES

  1. Persia and Oman: A Historical and Linguistic Intersection

    2. Roberta Morano

  2. Landscaping　in Moroccan Arabic: Practices, Ideologies and Inertias

    3. Adil Moustaoui

  3. Arabic in Michigan: An American Linguistic Landscape

    4. Camelia Suleiman

  4. Translanguaging in Gulf Higher Education

    5. Sarah Hopkyns

    　

  5. Linguistic and Conceptual Challenges of Public Opinion Surveys in the Arab Gulf States

    6. Russell Lucas

    PART II: UNPACKING IDENTITIES

  6. A Place to Belong: The Social Construction of Badu identity in Harūb, Saudi Arabia

    7. Julie Lowry

  7. Intersecting Scapes, Global Flows, and New Identity Options: Female Qatari Students’ Informal Learning of Turkish Language

    8. Sara Hillman

  8. Arab Influencers and Social Media: A Sociolinguistic Study of a New Culture

    9. Mai Zaki and Meis Al-Kaisi　

  9. Multilingualism in Lebanon: Code-switching as a Cultural Representation

    10. Lubna Bassam

  10. Perceptions towards Codeswitching and Identity in the Egyptian Context

    11. Nadia A. Shalaby

    　

    PART III: ARABIC IN MIGRANT COMMUNITIES

  11. Dialect Variation among Omani Migrants in Muscat: The Construction of Social Identity through Style Shifting

    12. Suaad Ambu-Saidi

  12. Identity Suppression as a Coping Strategy: The Case of Socotri Africans

    13. Eleonora Esposito and Sarali Gintsburg

  13. The Role of Education and Dialect Contact in the Realization of DHAA & THAA in a Community of Palestinian Refugees in Syria　

    14. Ourooba Shetewi　

  14. Family Language Policy between Ideology and Practice: A Domain-based Exploration of Arabic as a Heritage Language in the USA

    15. Reda Mohammed

  15. The Linguistics of Ḥaḍramī Arabic in the Speech of Ḥaḍramī-descent Community of Indonesia

Abdullah Al Saqqaf

Index

Biography

Fathiya Al Rashdi is Assistant Professor in Sociolinguistics and Discourse Analysis, Sultan Qaboos University, Oman, and Editorial Board Member of Discourse, Context and Media .

Sandhya Rao Mehta is Associate Professor of Global Literature, Sultan Qaboos University, Oman, and Editor of three critical anthologies, including Language Studies: Stretching the Boundaries and Language and Literature in a Glocal World.

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