Aspects of Language Variation in Arabic Political Speech-Making

Nathalie Mazraani

1 The sociolinguistic framework 1.1 Introduction 1.1.1 Defining Language 1.1.2 The speech community and social factors 1.1.3 Functions of language 1.1.4 Code-switching and code-mixing 1.2 Arabic and the Fergusonian dichotomy 1.2.1 Blanc and interdialectal studies 1.2.2 The emergence of Educated Spoken Arabic as a concept 1.2.3 Badawi and new sociolinguistic approaches 1.4 Objectives of this book 2 Methodology 3 Form and Function in the Egyptian data 4 Form and Function in the Iraqi data 5 Form and Function in the Libyan data 6 Forms and functions: shared tendencies in the data 7 The political speech as a textual genre