Description

This up-to-date textbook overviews and evaluates the major approaches, theories, and methodologies used in research on codeswitching, diglossia, language attitudes, and social identity in both Standard and Dialectal Arabic. These areas are also discussed in relation to issues like language prestige, power, and globalization. It analyses the interplay of these sociolinguistic aspects in language behaviour and introduces a framework in which they can be studied and understood, illuminating the complex nature of the Arabic multidialectal, multinational, and multi-ethnic sociolinguistic situation. It will be essential for researchers and students studying Sociolinguistics or Arabic Linguistics.

Product Details

Paperback
978-0-415-70747-3
January 1st 2015

Routledge – 2015 – 300 pages