Language and Society in the Middle East and North Africa

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ISBN: 9780700710782 | 0700710787
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 9/17/1999

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This book explores the language situation and issues relevant to language use among diaspora communities outside the Middle East. Includes papers on Arabic, Hebrew and Turkish in relation to variation, identity, gender, codeswitching and politico-linguistics.

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Acknowledgements
Introduction	p. 1
Language and Political Conflict in the Middle East: A Study In Symbolic Sociolinguistics	p. 10
Why do Different Variables Behave Differently? Data from Arabic	p. 38
Sociolinguistic Reflexes of Socio-Political Patterns in Bethlehem: Preliminary Studies	p. 58
Hebrew and English Borrowings in Palestinian Arabic in Israel: A Sociolinguistic Study in Lexical Integration and Diffusion	p. 81
Pronouns and Self Presentation in Public Discourse: Yasser Arafat as a Case Study	p. 104
Language Choice, Language Policy and the Tradition-Modernity Debate in Culturally Mixed Postcolonial Communities: France and the 'Francophone' Maghreb as a Case Study	p. 122
The Status of Berber: A Permanent Challenge to Language Policy in Morocco	p. 137
Comparative Perspectives on Language Planning in Iran and Tajikistan	p. 154
The Story of a Failed Attempt: 1997 Draft Bill on the Correct Use of Turkish Language	p. 175
Gender in a Genderless Language: The Case of Turkish	p. 190
The Sociolinguistic Connotations of /p/ and /v/ in Cairo Arabic	p. 204
Language and Diaspora: Arabs, Turks and Greeks	p. 217
Sociolinguistic Meaning in Code-Switching: The Case of Moroccans in Edinburgh	p. 234
The Arabic Proverb and the Speech Community: Another Look at Phatic Communion	p. 259
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