Arabic as a Minority LanguageJonathan Owens Walter de Gruyter, 2013 M03 12 - 468 pages CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE SOCIOLOGY OF LANGUAGE brings to students, researchers and practitioners in all of the social and language-related sciences carefully selected book-length publications dealing with sociolinguistic theory, methods, findings and applications. It approaches the study of language in society in its broadest sense, as a truly international and interdisciplinary field in which various approaches, theoretical and empirical, supplement and complement each other. The series invites the attention of linguists, language teachers of all interests, sociologists, political scientists, anthropologists, historians etc. to the development of the sociology of language. |
Contents
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Historical perspectives | 45 |
Arabic as a tool for expressing Jewish and Romani ethnic identity a prolegomenon to a typology of Arabic in non Arabic speaking communities | 65 |
an historical overview | 89 |
Arabic ethnic minorities | 113 |
The Arabic speech of Bactria Afghanistan | 181 |
Arabic as a minority language in Israel | 199 |
the secret language of Arab koranic school students in Borno | 221 |
Crossethnic and nonArab perspectives | 347 |
Loanwords in Algerian Berber | 371 |
a language in emergence | 383 |
Arabic in multiethnic contexts | 405 |
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a quantitative approach | 259 |
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Common terms and phrases
adjectives African Alawites Algerian Arabic/French Arabic dialects Arabic language Arabic origin Arabic-speaking Aramaic bedouins bilingual Borno borrowing Caucasus century Chad Classical Arabic codeswitching constituents context corpus cultural Daghestan Dariza diglossia discourse markers dominant Dutch nouns embedded Dutch embedded language English ethnic European example feminine finite clause French frequent gender grammar Hatay Hausa Hebrew insertion instance interview Islamic Israel Israeli Jewish Jews Judeo-Arabic Judeo-Spanish Kanuri koranic school lexical linguistic loanwords Maiduguri matrix language minority language Moroccan Arabic Moroccan Arabic/Dutch Morocco morphemes morphological mother tongue Mozarabic Muslim Nigerian Arabic non-Arabic noun phrase patterns Persian phonetic phonological plural political Poplack population prefix pronouns relatively relexification Romance sample secret language secret word semantic social sociolinguistic speaking Standard Arabic loans status stem suffix syntactic Table tokens Turkish variables varieties of Arabic verbal verbs villages vowels Western Neo-Aramaic