Arabic in the City (Routledge Arabic Linguistics)

BOOK COVER......Page 1
TITLE......Page 4
COPYRIGHT......Page 5
CONTENTS......Page 6
LIST OF MAPS......Page 8
LIST OF TABLES, FIGURES AND SPECTOGRAMS......Page 9
CONTRIBUTORS......Page 12
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS......Page 14
NOTES ON THE TRANSLITERATION......Page 15
1 ARABIC URBAN VERNACULARS: DEVELOPMENT AND CHANGE......Page 16
PART I: MIGRATION, URBANIZATION AND LANGUAGE CHANGE......Page 48
2 THE (R)URBANIZATION OF MAURITANIA: HISTORICAL CONTEXT AND CONTEMPORARY DEVELOPMENTS......Page 50
3 THE FORMATION OF THE DIALECT OF AMMAN: FROM CHAOS TO ORDER......Page 70
4 URBANIZATION AND DIALECT CHANGE: THE ARABIC DIALET OF TRIPOLI (LIBYA)......Page 92
5 BECOMING CASABLANCAN: FESSIS IN CASABLANCA AS A CASE STUDY......Page 112
6 TWO CASES OF MOROCCAN ARABIC IN THE DIASPORA......Page 138
PART II: URBAN VERNACULARS: CONVERGENCE AND DIVERGENCE......Page 160
7 GREETINGS IN BEIRUT: SOCIAL DISTRIBUTION AND ATTITUDES TOWARDS DIFFERENT FORMULAE......Page 162
8 LINGUISTIC LEVELING IN SAN…ANI ARABIC AS REFLECTED IN A POPULAR RADIO SERIAL......Page 181
9 THE URBAN AND SUBURBAN MODES: PATTERNS OF LINGUISTIC VARIATION AND CHANGE IN DAMASCUS......Page 203
10 SEGMENTAL AND PROSODIC ASPECTS OF KSAR EL KEBIR’S NEO-URBAN VARIETY......Page 228
11 THE USE OF KASKASAH/KASKASAH AND ALTERNATIVE MEANS AMONG EDUCATED URBAN SAUDI SPEAKERS......Page 245
PART III: MULTILINGUALISM, CODESWITCHING AND NEW URBAN CULTURES......Page 262
12 CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF A DIFFERENT KIND: TWO TYPES OF INSERTION IN NIGERIAN ARABIC CODESWITCHING......Page 264
13 DEVELOPMENT AND LINGUISTIC CHANGE IN MOROCCAN ARABIC-FRENCH CODESWITCHING......Page 290
14 THE LANGUAGE OF CAIRO’S YOUNG UNIVERSITY STUDENTS......Page 306
15 RAP AND RAPPERS IN NOUAKCHOTT (MAURITANIA)......Page 324
16 USES AND ATTITUDES TOWARDS HASSANIYYA AMONG NOUAKCHOTT’S NEGRO-MAURITANIAN POPULATION......Page 340
INDEX......Page 360