Language and Identity in the Arab World

1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-032-00643-7
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 344 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 526 g

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Language and Identity

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.

Zielgruppe

Academic

Autoren/Hrsg.

Al Rashdi, Fathiya

Mehta, Sandhya Rao

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Fremdsprachenerwerb und -didaktik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Soziolinguistik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- 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

Roberta Morano

- Landscaping in Moroccan Arabic: Practices, Ideologies and Inertias

Adil Moustaoui

- Arabic in Michigan: An American Linguistic Landscape

Camelia Suleiman

- Translanguaging in Gulf Higher Education

Sarah Hopkyns



- Linguistic and Conceptual Challenges of Public Opinion Surveys in the Arab Gulf States

Russell Lucas

PART II: UNPACKING IDENTITIES

- A Place to Belong: The Social Construction of Badu identity in Harub, Saudi Arabia

Julie Lowry

- Intersecting Scapes, Global Flows, and New Identity Options: Female Qatari Students’ Informal Learning of Turkish Language

Sarah Hillman

- Arab Influencers and Social Media: A Sociolinguistic Study of a New Culture

Mai Zaki and Meis Al-Kaisi

- Multilingualism in Lebanon: Code-switching as a Cultural Representation

Lubna Bassam



- Perceptions towards Codeswitching and Identity in the Egyptian Context

Nadia A. Shalaby



PART III: ARABIC IN MIGRANT COMMUNITIES

- Dialect Variation among Omani Migrants in Muscat: The Construction of Social Identity through Style Shifting

Suaad Ambu-Saidi

- Identity Suppression as a Coping Strategy: The Case of Socotri Africans

Eleonora Esposito and Sarali Gintsburg

- The Role of Education and Dialect Contact in the Realization of DHAA & THAA in a Community of Palestinian Refugees in Syria

Ourooba Shetewi



- Family Language Policy between Ideology and Practice: A Domain-based Exploration of Arabic as a Heritage Language in the USA

Reda Mohammed

- The Linguistics of Hadrami Arabic in the Speech of Hadrami-descent Community of Indonesia

Abdullah Al Saqqaf

Index

Über Autor(innen)

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.