| center | : | The Center of European Languages of Qom(Ale Beit Publications) |
| Document Type | : | BL |
| Record Number | : | 412 |
| Doc. No | : | b10209 |
| Language of Document | : | English |
| Main Entry | : | Miller, Catherine, 1955 |
| Title & Author | : | Arabic in the city:issues in dialect contact and language variation/ edited by Catherine Miller ... [et al.] |
| Publication Statement | : | New York: Routledge,, 2008. |
| Series Statement | : | (Routledgecurzon Arabic linguistics series) |
| Page. NO | : | p.: cm. |
| ISBN | : | 9780415773119(hardback) |
| Notes | : | Print |
| Bibliographies/Indexes | : | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents | : | Arabic urban vernaculars : development and changes / Catherine Miller -- Migration, urbanization and language change. The (r)urbanisation of Mauritania : historical context and contemporary developments / Catherine Taine Cheikh -- The formation of the dialect of Amman : from chaos to order / Enam Al-Wer -- Urbanization and dialect change : the Arabic dialect of Tripoli (Libya) / Christophe Pereira -- Becoming Casablancan : Fessis in Casablanca as a case study / Atiqa Hachimi -- Two cases of Moroccan Arabic in the Diaspora / Angeles Vicente -- Urban vernaculars : convergence and divergence. Greetings in Beirut : social distribution and attitudes towards different formulae / Marie Aymee Germanos -- Linguistic levelling in San'ani Arabic as reflected in a popular radio serial / Janet Watson -- The urban and suburban modes : patterns of linguistic variation and change in Damascus / Hanadi Ismail -- Segmental and prosodic aspects of Ksar el Kebir's neo-urban variety / Mohamed Embarki -- The Use of Kashkasha/kaskasa and alternative means among educated urban Saudi speakers / Munira Al-Azraki -- Multilingualism, codeswitching and new urban cultures. Close encounters of a different kind : two types of insertion in Nigerian Arabic codeswitching / Jonathan Owens -- Development and linguistic change in Moroccan Arabic-French Codeswitching / Karima Ziamari -- The language of Cairos' young university students / Sherin Rizk -- Rap and rappers in Nouakchott, (Mauritania) / Aline Tauzin -- Uses and attitudes towards Hassaniyya language among Nouakchotts negro-Mauritanian population / Alassane Dia. |
| Subject | : | Arabic languageDialects |
| Subject | : | Arabic languageVariation |
| Subject | : | Urban dialectsArab countries |
| Subject | : | Arabic languageSocial aspects |
| Subject | : | Languages in contactArab countries |
| Dewey Classification | : | 492.7.7 |
| LC Classification | : | PJ6709.A78 2008 |