gender in Arabic

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Hi Mary,

I know Keith has done most of his research on Tunisian Arabic (my native
dialect and a diglossic variety of Arabic), and is more interested in the
sociolinguistic dimension of gender in dialectal varieties. The only paper I
have by him on MSA ("On Written Persuasive Discourse in Arabic and English."
Unpublished draft?) does not deal with gender. Keith kindly gave me another
paper he wrote on "Gender, Identity, and the Political Economy of Language:
Anglophone Wives in Tunisia." Language in Society(1996), 25: 4, 515-555.  If
Keith is publishing about gender in literary Arabic (forthcoming), I am
looking forward to reading that. Nohad, as she explained to me, is gearing
towards gender in linguistics, however.  If she is interested in gender in
sociolinguistics, there are quite a few references on Arabic
sociolinguistics that I can gladly pass on her.

Regards,
Zouhair.

-----Original Message-----
From: Mary Bucholtz <bucholtz at TAMU.EDU>
To: DISCOURS at linguist.ldc.upenn.edu <DISCOURS at linguist.ldc.upenn.edu>
Date: 29 ãÇÑÓ, 1999 23:24
Subject: gender in Arabic


>Nohad wrote:
>
>>Nowadays I'm working on an MA thesis about GENDER IN THE ARABIC
>>LANGUAGE  (Any suggestions and/or hints r appreciated.)
>>
>
>You may be interested in the work of Keith Walters. He has a chapter on the
>topic in a forthcoming book I'm co-editing (Reinventing Identities: The
>Gendered Self in Discourse), due out in the fall from Oxford.
>
>Hope this helps,
>
>Mary
>
>
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