Arabic-L:GEN:Query Concerning New Dissertation

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Date: 12 Oct  2004
From: m.vdb at free.fr
Subject:Query Concerning New Dissertation

I see no editor/ISBN reference for this thesis.
Do you know if it can be retrieve somewhere in electronic format ?

Best regards

Mathias

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> Date: 28 Sep  2004
> From:LINGUIST
> Subject:New Book
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> Reposted from LINGUIST
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> Program: Linguistics
> Dissertation Status: Completed
> Degree Date: 24-Jun-1905
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> Author: Joan Smith/Kocamahhul
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> Dissertation Title: Language Choice, Code-switching and Language Shift
> in
> Antakya, Turkey
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> Linguistic Field(s): Sociolinguistics
>
> Subject Language(s):
> Arabic, North Mesopotamian Spoken (Code: AYP)
> Turkish (Code: TRK)
>
> Dissertation Director(s):
> Kon Kuiper
> Lyle Campbell
>
> Dissertation Abstract:
>
> Although Arabic is one of the world?s ten largest languages in terms
> of numbers of speakers, the Arabic language in Turkey is in decline.
> This is due to the position of Turkish as the sole official language
> there and to other factors of social change (significantly
> migration). This thesis presents one of the first pieces of research
> into the shift from Arabic to Turkish in Turkey, focused on the city
> of Antakya (Antioch). The thesis has multiple goals. Firstly, it
> sketches the background of the Arabic-speaking community as it
> relates to the history of the language in the area. Secondly, it
> presents an assessment of the degree of language shift and community
> members' attitudes to the language and the shift. This was done
> through a combination of qualitative and quantitative methods,
> namely, through the use of structured interviews and the analysis of
> naturally-occurring conversations. Thirdly, this work assesses the
> role language choice and code-switching play in the language shift.
> Specifically, it tests Myers-Scotton's Matrix Language turnover
> hypothesis (1993a, 1998) which postulates that intrasentential
> code-switching may cause language shift. The results show that the
> Matrix Language turnover hypothesis has little relevance to this
> community and thus that other communities undergoing language shift
> need not necessarily see intrasentential code-switching as a threat
> to their language. The work concludes with proposals of possible
> avenues for language maintenance for the Arabic-speaking community in
> Turkey.
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