This paper examines different ideological and identity construction functions of linguistic variation and shifting in Arabic through the analysis of the existing literature on language, politics and national identity, arguing that linguistic variation and shifting may be used for constructing/reconstructing, locating/relocating and/or shifting/abandoning identity, and divided/split identity. A few major cases will be surveyed to exemplify this. It is shown that variation and/or shifting in Arabic may reflec t different levels of sociopolitical, ethnic, sectarian, and religious grouping/ divisions. In such contexts, l anguage and /or varieties of language serve as markers of identity and as boundar...
The presence of the Arabic language is without a doubt the primary reason underpinning the persisten...
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 64-69).Lebanese people use language and identity variati...
Arab linguistic identity. When the ideologues of pan-Arab nationalism chose Arabic as the adhesive f...
The study of identity is based on a variety of forms such as ethnicity (Fishman 1999), gender (Ecker...
Este artículo revisa las modalidades de lengua árabe utilizadas en el doblaje de productos audiovisu...
Language has a salient role of indicating group membership and is considered a symbol of different s...
"Combining empirical and theoretical approaches from a range of disciplines, Linguistic Identities i...
Every speech community has a set of beliefs – and myths – regarding its own language.&nb...
This chapter addresses the symbolic function of Arabic in the political sphere by focusing on its ro...
It is received wisdom in variationist sociolinguistics that linguistic and social factors go hand in...
This book builds on research I have carried out over the past decade. Manypeople have helped me duri...
In the pre-Islamic period, Arabic had a wide range of expressive terms referring to the different «w...
Gramsci famously once said that “every time the question of language surfaces, in one way or another...
What are the roots of Arab identity and how do they affect Arab identity today? This research, conne...
Identity is a kind of social codes which adhere to someone through his/her interaction with others....
The presence of the Arabic language is without a doubt the primary reason underpinning the persisten...
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 64-69).Lebanese people use language and identity variati...
Arab linguistic identity. When the ideologues of pan-Arab nationalism chose Arabic as the adhesive f...
The study of identity is based on a variety of forms such as ethnicity (Fishman 1999), gender (Ecker...
Este artículo revisa las modalidades de lengua árabe utilizadas en el doblaje de productos audiovisu...
Language has a salient role of indicating group membership and is considered a symbol of different s...
"Combining empirical and theoretical approaches from a range of disciplines, Linguistic Identities i...
Every speech community has a set of beliefs – and myths – regarding its own language.&nb...
This chapter addresses the symbolic function of Arabic in the political sphere by focusing on its ro...
It is received wisdom in variationist sociolinguistics that linguistic and social factors go hand in...
This book builds on research I have carried out over the past decade. Manypeople have helped me duri...
In the pre-Islamic period, Arabic had a wide range of expressive terms referring to the different «w...
Gramsci famously once said that “every time the question of language surfaces, in one way or another...
What are the roots of Arab identity and how do they affect Arab identity today? This research, conne...
Identity is a kind of social codes which adhere to someone through his/her interaction with others....
The presence of the Arabic language is without a doubt the primary reason underpinning the persisten...
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 64-69).Lebanese people use language and identity variati...
Arab linguistic identity. When the ideologues of pan-Arab nationalism chose Arabic as the adhesive f...