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Language and Identity in the Arab World
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 implications of migration, and the impact of technology on language use are explored by established and emerging scholars in the field of applied and socio-linguistics. The book asks such crucial questions as how language contact affects or transforms identity, how language reflects changing identities among migrant communities, and how language choices contribute to identity construction in social media. As well as appreciating the breadth and scope of the Arab world, this anthology focuses on the transformative role of language within indigenous and migrant communities as they negotiate between their heritage languages and those spoken by the wider society.
Investigating the ways in which identity continues to be imagined and re-constructed in and among Arab communities, this book is indispensable to students, teachers, and anyone who is interested in language contact, linguistic landscapes, and minority language retention as well as the intersections of language and technology.
- List of Tables
- List of Figures
- List of Maps
- List of Contributors
- Preface
INTRODUCTION
Sandhya Rao Mehta
PART 1: LINGUISTIC LANDSCAPES
- Persia and Oman: A Historical and Linguistic Intersection
- Landscaping in Moroccan Arabic: Practices, Ideologies and Inertias
- Arabic in Michigan: An American Linguistic Landscape
- Translanguaging in Gulf Higher Education
- Linguistic and Conceptual Challenges of Public Opinion Surveys in the Arab Gulf States
- A Place to Belong: The Social Construction of Badu identity in Harūb, Saudi Arabia
- Intersecting Scapes, Global Flows, and New Identity Options: Female Qatari Students’ Informal Learning of Turkish Language
- Arab Influencers and Social Media: A Sociolinguistic Study of a New Culture
- Multilingualism in Lebanon: Code-switching as a Cultural Representation
- Perceptions towards Codeswitching and Identity in the Egyptian Context
- Dialect Variation among Omani Migrants in Muscat: The Construction of Social Identity through Style Shifting
- Identity Suppression as a Coping Strategy: The Case of Socotri Africans
- The Role of Education and Dialect Contact in the Realization of DHAA & THAA in a Community of Palestinian Refugees in Syria
- Family Language Policy between Ideology and Practice: A Domain-based Exploration of Arabic as a Heritage Language in the USA
- The Linguistics of Ḥaḍramī Arabic in the Speech of Ḥaḍramī-descent Community of Indonesia
Roberta Morano
Adil Moustaoui
Camelia Suleiman
Sarah Hopkyns
Russell Lucas
PART II: UNPACKING IDENTITIES
Julie Lowry
Sara Hillman
Mai Zaki and Meis Al-Kaisi
Lubna Bassam
Nadia A. Shalaby
PART III: ARABIC IN MIGRANT COMMUNITIES
Suaad Ambu-Saidi
Eleonora Esposito and Sarali Gintsburg
Ourooba Shetewi
Reda Mohammed
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.