Arabic in the city : issues in dialect contact and language variation
Record details
- ISBN: 9780415773119
- ISBN: 0415773113
- ISBN: 9781135978754
- ISBN: 9780203933367
- ISBN: 1135978751
- ISBN: 0203933362
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (xiv, 354 pages) : illustrations, maps.
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Computer data. - Publisher: London ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2007.
- Copyright: �2007
Content descriptions
General Note: | CatMonthString:january.20 Multi-User. |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Arabic urban vernaculars : development and changes / Catherine Miller -- Migration, urbanization and language change. The (r)urbanisation of Mauritania : historical context and contemporary developments / Catherine Taine Cheikh -- The formation of the dialect of Amman : from chaos to order / Enam Al-Wer -- Urbanization and dialect change : the Arabic dialect of Tripoli (Libya) / Christophe Pereira -- Becoming Casablancan : Fessis in Casablanca as a case study / Atiqa Hachimi -- Two cases of Moroccan Arabic in the Diaspora / Angeles Vicente -- Urban vernaculars : convergence and divergence. Greetings in Beirut : social distribution and attitudes towards different formulae / Marie Aymee Germanos -- Linguistic levelling in San'ani Arabic as reflected in a popular radio serial / Janet Watson -- The urban and suburban modes : patterns of linguistic variation and change in Damascus / Hanadi Ismail -- Segmental and prosodic aspects of Ksar el Kebir's neo-urban variety / Mohamed Embarki -- The Use of Kashkasha/kaskasa and alternative means among educated urban Saudi speakers / Munira Al-Azraki -- Multilingualism, codeswitching and new urban cultures. Close encounters of a different kind : two types of insertion in Nigerian Arabic codeswitching / Jonathan Owens -- Development and linguistic change in Moroccan Arabic-French Codeswitching / Karima Ziamari -- The language of Cairos' young university students / Sherin Rizk -- Rap and rappers in Nouakchott, (Mauritania) / Aline Tauzin -- Uses and attitudes towards Hassaniyya language among Nouakchotts negro-Mauritanian population / Alassane Dia. |
Restrictions on Access Note: | Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK). |
Type of Computer File or Data Note: | Text (HTML), electronic book. |
System Details Note: | Mode of access: Internet. |
Terms Governing Use and Reproduction Note: | Access requires VIU IP addresses and is restricted to VIU students, faculty and staff. Access restricted by subscription. Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force. |
Language Note: | In English with some Arabic text. |
Issuing Body Note: | Made available online by EBSCO. |
Source of Description Note: | Print version record. |
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Genre: | Aufsatzsammlung. |