<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><DIV>Thanks for your comments Christina. Eliman's paper, to my understanding, is actually trying to argue that Maghrebi language is not actually a variety of Arabic (i.e., a vernacular), but rather a more shared form of Berber spoken (also Tamazight) which is labelled a minority language in Norther Africa, hence is uses minority/majority paradigm. In other literature such as the one I am attaching below Vernacular is seen within a paradigm of diglossia. I just wanted to show how complex it is to talk about m/m because of socio-political and cultural factors.</DIV>
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<DIV><BR><BR>--- On <B>Mon, 11/4/11, Christina Paulston <I><paulston@pitt.edu></I></B> wrote:<BR></DIV>
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<DIV>Good example of choosing concepts depending on context. Minority/majority ( from now m/m ) languages are concepts for dealing with bilingualism, not DIGLOSSIA. It will cause further confusion to discuss Maghrebi as minority language -- that's a matter of High and Low form of Arabic.</DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=yiv1843751825Apple-tab-span style="WHITE-SPACE: pre"></SPAN>French linguists use a group-conflict perspective in interpreting Ferguson, much to his bewilderment ( see EARLY DAYS OF SOCIOLINGUISTICS --Paulston and Tucker) which is waste of a good concept because critical theory could handle that.<BR class=yiv1843751825webkit-block-placeholder></DIV>
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<DIV>Hi everybody. I believe the issue of minority/majority languages is complex as it is hard to reach a general consensus, i.e., each group (i.e., linguists, politicians, sociologists...etc) make a distinction with reference to their own beliefs and experiences, but also according to their own interests (acedemic, political, material...etc). </DIV>
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<DIV>I can think of Vernacular Arabic in the Maghreb (North Africa) where although it is a majority language with reference to its users, it is however labelled as minority because it is not officially recognised by the governments. Please see the link below for a paper that discusses this issue (it's in French though). I hope this helps.</DIV>
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<DIV><A href="http://www.u-picardie.fr/LESCLaP/IMG/pdf/elimam_maghribi-2.pdf" target=_blank rel=nofollow>http://www.u-picardie.fr/LESCLaP/IMG/pdf/elimam_maghribi-2.pdf</A><BR><BR>--- On <B>Sat, 9/4/11, Zaidi <I><<A href="http://uk.mc295.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=manoo@brunet.bn" target=_blank rel=nofollow ymailto="mailto:manoo@brunet.bn">manoo@brunet.bn</A>></I></B> wrote:<BR></DIV>
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