Ever since the oil boom of the 1970s, Saudi Arabia and the countries on the western coast of the Arab Gulf, i.e. Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates, Oman, Bahrain, and Qatar, have been witnessing both a significant increase in their non-national labour force and considerable urbanization. Most of the immigrant workers come from South and South-East Asia, with smaller number of expatriates from other regions. The overwhelming majority of these foreign workers live and work in the cities, which have thus become not only a meeting place of speakers of a variety of languages, but also a linguistic laboratory in which a new means of inter-ethnic communication, generally known as Gulf Pidgin Arabic, has emerged in approximately the last ...
This dissertation has two goals: First, it applies Jarvis’s (2000) framework of language transfer in...
Gulf Pidgin Arabic (GPA) is a simplified communication system established by the non-Arabic immigran...
According to Graddol (2004) "The world's language system is undergoing rapid change because of demog...
Ever since the oil boom of the 1970s, Saudi Arabia and the countries on the western coast of the Ar...
Gulf Pidgin Arabic (GPA) is a simplified contact variety of language spoken in the Gulf States in th...
Gulf Pidgin Arabic (GPA) is a simplified contact variety of language spoken in the Gulf States in th...
This paper addresses the situation of increasing linguistic hybridity in the Arab Gulf state of Kuwa...
Gulf Pidgin Arabic (GPA) is a scarcely documented contact language in the Arabic-speaking Persian Gu...
The study aims at investigating the linguistic effect of the Asian workers on Saudi Arabic variety. ...
‘Ibrī is located half-way in between Mascat and Dubai, and is very close to the Emirates border. ...
Following the rise of oil-based economies after the 1950s, the six Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) co...
PhD Thesisworks such as Smart 1990, Hobrom 1996, Wiswal 2002, Gomaa 2007, Almoaily 2008, Naess 2008,...
The paper discusses the question of Linguistic identity in the Cooperation Council for the Arab Stat...
International audienceThis report presents a new Arabic-based language, Pidgin Madam, born out of th...
The number of American, English and Australian branch campuses in the Middle East and North Africa ...
This dissertation has two goals: First, it applies Jarvis’s (2000) framework of language transfer in...
Gulf Pidgin Arabic (GPA) is a simplified communication system established by the non-Arabic immigran...
According to Graddol (2004) "The world's language system is undergoing rapid change because of demog...
Ever since the oil boom of the 1970s, Saudi Arabia and the countries on the western coast of the Ar...
Gulf Pidgin Arabic (GPA) is a simplified contact variety of language spoken in the Gulf States in th...
Gulf Pidgin Arabic (GPA) is a simplified contact variety of language spoken in the Gulf States in th...
This paper addresses the situation of increasing linguistic hybridity in the Arab Gulf state of Kuwa...
Gulf Pidgin Arabic (GPA) is a scarcely documented contact language in the Arabic-speaking Persian Gu...
The study aims at investigating the linguistic effect of the Asian workers on Saudi Arabic variety. ...
‘Ibrī is located half-way in between Mascat and Dubai, and is very close to the Emirates border. ...
Following the rise of oil-based economies after the 1950s, the six Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) co...
PhD Thesisworks such as Smart 1990, Hobrom 1996, Wiswal 2002, Gomaa 2007, Almoaily 2008, Naess 2008,...
The paper discusses the question of Linguistic identity in the Cooperation Council for the Arab Stat...
International audienceThis report presents a new Arabic-based language, Pidgin Madam, born out of th...
The number of American, English and Australian branch campuses in the Middle East and North Africa ...
This dissertation has two goals: First, it applies Jarvis’s (2000) framework of language transfer in...
Gulf Pidgin Arabic (GPA) is a simplified communication system established by the non-Arabic immigran...
According to Graddol (2004) "The world's language system is undergoing rapid change because of demog...