Language and Identity in the Arab World

Fathiya Al Rashdi, Sandhya Rao Mehta (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

324 Seiten

2022
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-00640-6 (ISBN)

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Language and Identity in the Arab World explores the inextricable link between language and identity, referring particularly to the Arab world. Spanning from 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.

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.

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.

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 Harūb, 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 Ḥaḍramī Arabic in the Speech of Ḥaḍramī-descent Community of Indonesia

Abdullah Al Saqqaf

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	17.08.2022
Reihe/Serie	Routledge Studies in Language and Identity
Zusatzinfo	20 Tables, black and white; 26 Line drawings, black and white; 29 Halftones, black and white; 55 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	453 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
ISBN-10	1-032-00640-4 / 1032006404
ISBN-13	978-1-032-00640-6 / 9781032006406
Zustand	Neuware