Social change and linguistic variation in Korba, a small Tunisian town

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" Social change and linguistic variation in Korba, a small Tunisian town "
Samuel Keith Walters J. Baugh, Jr.

Document Type	:	Latin Dissertation
Language of Document	:	English
Record Number	:	1112813
Doc. No	:	TLpq303805518
Main Entry	:	J. Baugh, Jr.
	:	Samuel Keith Walters
Title & Author	:	Social change and linguistic variation in Korba, a small Tunisian town\ Samuel Keith WaltersJ. Baugh, Jr.
College	:	The University of Texas at Austin
Date	:	1989
student score	:	1989
Degree	:	Ph.D.
Page No	:	351-351 p.
Abstract	:	This dissertation is a quantitative study of social change and linguistic variation in the dialect of Tunisian Arabic spoken in Korba, a small town in the Cap Bon, the northeastern penninsula of Tunisia. A sample of twenty-four speakers (eleven males and thirteen females) participated in tape-recorded sociolinguistic interviews; twenty-three of these speakers were interviewed by a female interviewer and eight were interviewed by a male interviewer. An analysis is offered for three variables (usd\varepsilonusd:) in word-final position, (s) in word-initial position, and (u:) in stressed syllables. In contrast to earlier studies, the behavior of both interviewers and interviewees was analyzed. As background to the study, a discussion of how social change that has taken place in Tunisia since independence in 1956 has influenced the linguistic situation of a country that is both diglossic and bilingual is included as well as reviews of relevant literature from quantitative sociolinguistics, Arabic sociolinguistics, and Tunisian Arabic. The study concludes with a discussion of implications of the research for sociolinguistic studies of variation in the Arab world and for the field of quantitative sociolinguistics in general.
Subject	:	Arabic
	:	Language
	:	Language, literature and linguistics
	:	Linguistics
	:	Social sciences
	:	Womens studies