28.3445, Books: The Politics of Written Language in the Arab World: Høigilt, Mejdell (eds.)

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Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2017 11:41:12
From: Maarten Frieswijk [frieswijk at brill.com]
Subject: The Politics of Written Language in the Arab World: Høigilt, Mejdell (eds.)

 


Title: The Politics of Written Language in the Arab World 
Subtitle: Writing Change 
Series Title: Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics  

Publication Year: 2017 
Publisher: Brill
	   http://www.brill.com
	

Book URL: http://www.brill.com/products/book/politics-written-language-arab-world 


Editor: Jacob Høigilt
Editor: Gunvor Mejdell

Electronic: ISBN:  9789004346178 Pages: 320 Price: Europe EURO 0.01 Comment: Open Access
Hardback: ISBN:  9789004346161 Pages: 320 Price: Europe EURO 99


Abstract:

'The Politics of Written Language in the Arab World' connects the fascinating
field of contemporary written Arabic with the central sociolinguistic notions
of language ideology and diglossia. Focusing on Egypt and Morocco, the authors
combine large-scale survey data on language attitudes with in-depth analyses
of actual language usage and explicit (and implicit) language ideology. They
show that writing practices as well as language attitudes in Egypt and Morocco
are far more receptive to vernacular forms than has been assumed.

The individual chapters cover a wide variety of media, from books and
magazines to blogs and Tweets. A central theme running through the
contributions is the social and political function of “doing informality” in a
changing public sphere steadily more permeated by written Arabic in a number
of media. 

The e-book version of this publication is available in Open Access.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Sociolinguistics

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

Language Family(ies): Afroasiatic


Written In: English  (eng)

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