34.958, Books: The “White Dialect” of young Arabic speakers from Qassim (Saudi Arabia): Alkhamees

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Subject: 34.958, Books: The “White Dialect” of young Arabic speakers from Qassim (Saudi Arabia):	Alkhamees

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Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2023 15:53:48
From: Tessa Arneri [lotdissertations-fgw at uva.nl]
Subject: The “White Dialect” of young Arabic speakers from Qassim (Saudi Arabia):	Alkhamees

 


Title: The “White Dialect” of young Arabic speakers from Qassim (Saudi
Arabia) 
Series Title: LOT Dissertation Series  

Publication Year: 2023 
Publisher: Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics / Landelijke (LOT)
	   http://www.lotpublications.nl/
	

Book URL: https://www.lotpublications.nl/the-white-dialect-of-young-arabic-speakers-from-qassim-saudi-arabia 


Author: Bushra Alkhamees

Paperback: ISBN:  9789460934247 Pages: 245 Price: Europe EURO 36


Abstract:

This book is about the speech habits of young people from the Qassim region in
central Saudi Arabia. It focuses on the way they speak when addressing people
who are not from their home region. This way of speaking is referred “White
Dialect”. While this term is used more generally in Saudi Arabia, it may not
always refer to the same type of entity. In this book, the term “White
Dialect” is used exclusively in the way it is used by the young Qassimi
speakers that participated in this research.

This book investigates the “White Dialect” used by the young Qassimi Arabic
speakers and answers three main questions: what is the “White Dialect”? when
it is used and why it is used. Besides the “White Dialect”, this book also
highlights some of the differences between old and young Qassimi Arabic.

The “White dialect” is not a dialect in the common linguistic sense, with
relatively stable forms and a clear grounding in one or another group.
However, the term “White Dialect” is retained in this book, because it is the
term used by the speakers themselves, and thus implies a certain awareness of
it as a variety different from other varieties. Results show that the “White
Dialect” is a linguistic strategy for Arabic speakers to adopt linguistic
features from the range of different Arabic varieties available to them, to
produce a spontaneous and fluid form of Arabic that serves their desired
communicative motives.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Language Acquisition
                     Sociolinguistics

Subject Language(s): Arabic, Standard (arb)


Written In: English  (eng)

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