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.
Author(s): Fathiya Al Rashdi, Sandhya Rao Mehta
Series: Routledge Studies in Language and Identity
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 343
City: London
Cover
Half Title
Series
Title
Copyright
Contents
List of Tables
List of Figures
List of Maps
List of Contributors
Preface
Introduction
Part I Linguistic Landscapes
1 Persia and Oman: An Historical and Linguistic Intersection
2 Landscaping in Moroccan Arabic: Language Regimentation, Practices and Ideologies
3 Arabic in Michigan: An American Linguistic Landscape
4 Translanguaging in Gulf English-Medium Instruction Higher Education
5 Linguistic and Conceptual Challenges of Public Opinion Surveys in the Arab Gulf States
Part II Unpacking Identities
6 A Place to Belong: The Social Construction of Badu Identity in Jazan, Saudi Arabia
7 Intersecting Scapes, Global Flows, and New Identity Options: Female Qatari Students’ Informal Learning of Turkish Language
8 Arab Influencers and Social Media: A Sociolinguistic Study of a New Culture
9 Multilingualism in Lebanon: Code-Switching as Cultural Representation
10 Perceptions of Codeswitching and Identity in the Egyptian Context
Part III Arabic in Migrant Communities
11 Dialect Variation Among Omani Migrants in Muscat: The Construction of Social Identity Through Style Shifting
12 The Asymmetric Linguistic Identities of African Soqotris: A Triadic Interaction
13 The Role of Education and Dialect Contact in the Realization of (ðˤ) and (dˤ) in the Speech of Palestinian Children and Adolescents in Syria
14 Family Language Policy Between Ideology and Practice: A Domain-Based Exploration of Arabic as a Heritage Language in the United States
15 Aspects of Speech in the Hadhrami-Descent Community of Indonesia
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