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Date:  29 Apr 2002
From:mughazy <mughazy at students.uiuc.edu>
Subject:Arabic Diglossia references response

Dear Natalia
I have listed below some reference on the issue of diglossia in Arabic
focusing on the situation in Egypt. I know that there is a huge 
literature on
the topic, but this is what I have ready at the moment.
I hope you find them helpful

Abd-el-Jawad, Hassan. (1986). The emergence of an urban dialect in the
Jordanian urban centers. International Journal of the Sociology of 
Language
61: 53-63.
Abd-el-Jawad, Hassan. (1987). Cross-dialectal variation in Arabic: 
Competing
prestigious forms. Language in Society. 16 359-368.s
Abou-Seida, Abdelrahman. 1971. Diglossia in Egyptian Arabic: Prolegomena 
to a
pan-Arabic sociolinguistic study. Ph.D. dissertation. Texas: University 
of
Texas at Austin.
Al-Qurashi, Khedier. 1982. The feasibility of the Arabic language as a 
medium
of instruction in sciences. Ph.D. dissertation. Bloomington: Indiana
University.
Al-Tunair, Muhammed. 1987. Alfaaz `Amyya Faseeha. Cairo: Dar al-Sherooq.
Badawi, El-Said. 1973. Mustawayaat al-Arabiyya al-Mu`assira fi Misr. 
Cairo:
Dar al-ma`arif.
Bell, Allan. 1984. Language style as audience design. Language in 
Society 13:2
	145-204.
Blanc, Haim. 1964. Stylistic variation in spoken Arabic. In Charles 
Ferguson
(eds.) Contributions to Arabic Linguistics. Cambridge: Harvard University
Press. 81-151
Eid, Mushira. 1982. The non-randomness of diglossic variation in Arabic.
Glossa 16:1. 54-84.
El-Gibali, Alaa. 1993. Stability and Language Variation in Arabic: 
Cairene and
Kuwaiti Arabic. Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics., Current Issues in
Linguistic Theory, V: 101. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
Ferguson, Charles. 1959. Diglossia. Word 15: 325-340
Ferguson, Charles. 1996. Epilogue: Diglossia Revisited. In Alla Elgibali
(eds.) Understanding Arabic. Cairo: The American University in Cairo 
Press.
49-69
Haeri, Niloofar. 1987. Male/Femal differences in speech: An alternative
approach. Variation in Language. XV, Stanford: Stanford University.
Haeri, Niloofar. 1997. The Sociolinguistic Market of Cairo: Gender, 
Class, and
Education. New York: Kegan Paul International.
Hary, Benjamin. 1996. The importance of the language continuum in Arabic
multiglossia. In Alla Elgibali (eds) Understanding Arabic. Cairo: The 
American
University in Cairo Press. 69-90.
Holes, Clive. 1993. The Use of Variation: A Study of the Political 
Speeches of
Gamal Abd-al-Nasir. Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics.  Current Issues 
in
Linguistic Theory, V: 101. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
Ibrahim, Muhammad. 1986. Standard and prestige language: A problem in 
Arabic
sociolinguistics. Anthropological Linguistics 28:1. 115-126.
Kaye, Alan. 1994. Formal vs. informal in Arabic: Diglossia, triglossia,
tetraglossia, etc.: Polyglossia-multiglossia viewed as a continuum. 
Journal of
Arabic Linguistics 27: 47-66.
Labov, William. 1994. Principles of Linguistic Change. Oxford, United 
Kingdom
and Cambridge, MA: Blackwell Publishers.
Meiseles, Gustav. 1980. Educated spoken Arabic and the Arabic language
continuum. Archivum Linguisticum 11:2. 118-148.
Mitchel, T. 1980. Dimensions of style in a grammar of educated spoken 
Arabic.
Archivum Linguisticum 11:2. 89-107.
Mitchel, T. 1986. What is educated spoken Arabic? International Journal 
of the
Sociology of Language 61: 7-32.
Parkinson, Dilworth. 1993. Knowing Standard Arabic: Testing Egyptians’ 
MSA
Abilities. Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics.  Current Issues in 
Linguistic
Theory, V: 101. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
Parkinson, Dilworth. 1994. Speaking fusha in Cairo: The role of the 
ending
vowels. In Yasser Suleiman (eds.). Arabic Sociolinguistics: Issues and
Perspectives. Surrey: Curzon. 179-211.
Parkinson, Dilworth. 1996. Variability in standard Arabic grammar 
skills. In
Alaa Elgibali (eds.). Understanding Arabic. Cairo: The American 
University in
Cairo Press. 91-101.
Robertson, Alice. 1970. Classical Arabic and colloquial Cairene: An 
historical
linguistic analysis. Ph.D. dissertation. Utah: University of Utah.
Schmidt, Richard. 1975. Sociolinguistic variation in spoken Egyptian 
Arabic: A
re-examination of the concept of diglossia. Ph.D. dissertation. Rhode 
Island:
Brown University.
Versteegh, Kees. 1997. The Arabic Language. Edinburgh : Edinburgh 
University
Presss.
Walters, Keith. 1996. Diglossia, Linguistic Variation, and Language 
Change in
Arabic. Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics. Current Issues in Linguistic
Theory, VIII: 134. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
Wilmsen, David. 1996. Code-Switching, Code-Mixing, and Borrowing in the 
Spoken
Arabic of a Theatrical Community in Cairo. Perspectives on Arabic 
Linguistics.
Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, IX: 141. Amsterdam and 
Philadelphia: John
Benjamins.

Mustafa A. Mughazy
Graduate student
Depatment of Linguistics
University of Illinois
Urbana Champaign

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