Arabic in the city : issues in dialect contact and language variation /
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| Imprint: | London ; New York : Routledge, 2007. |
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| Description: | xiv, 354 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Routledge Arabic linguistics series |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6662713 |
Table of Contents:
- List of maps
- List of tables and figures
- List of contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Notes on the transliteration
- 1. Arabic urban vernaculars: development and change
- Part I. Migration, urbanization and language change
- 2. The (r)urbanization of Mauritania: historical context and contemporary developments
- 3. The formation of the dialect of Amman: from chaos to order
- 4. Urbanization and dialect change: the Arabic dialect of Tripoli (Libya)
- 5. Becoming Casablancan: Fessis in Casablanca as a case study
- 6. Two cases of Moroccan Arabic in the diaspora
- Part II. Urban vernaculars: convergence and divergence
- 7. Greetings in Beirut: social distribution and attitudes towards different formulae
- 8. Linguistic leveling in San'ani Arabic as reflected in a popular radio serial
- 9. The urban and suburban modes: patterns of linguistic variation and change in Damascus
- 10. Segmental and prosodic aspects of Ksar el Kebir's neo-urban variety
- 11. The use of kaskasah/kaskasah and alternative means among educated urban Saudi speakers
- Part III. Multilingualism, codeswitching and new urban cultures
- 12. Close encounters of a different kind: two types of insertion in Nigerian Arabic codeswitching
- 13. Development and linguistic change in Moroccan Arabic-French codeswitching
- 14. The language of Cairo's young university students
- 15. Rap and rappers in Nouakchott (Mauritania)
- 16. Uses and attitudes towards Hassaniyya among Nouakchott's Negro-Mauritanian population
- Index
