1st Edition

The Sociolinguistic Market Of Cairo Gender, Class and Education

By Niloofar Haeri Copyright 1997
304 Pages
by Routledge

304 Pages
by Routledge

304 Pages
by Routledge

First published in 1997. The field of Arabic sociolinguistics has made rapid strides since the appearance of the first correlation studies in the early 1980s. Up to that point, studies of non-standard Arabic had largely been confined to the field of dialectology, in which the researcher's frame erred on the historical or cultural. Dr. Haeri's work falls into the Labovian sociolinguistic paradigm,... Read more
Methodology; palatalization - an innovation of Cairene women - linguistic characterization, sociolinguistic dynamics of palatalization; the re-appearance of a classical sound - the Qaf - introduction, in whose speech has the Qaf re-appeared? - sociolinguistic considerations; gender, class and education; language attitudes and ideologies.

Biography

Niloofar Haeri