Arabic in the City
Catherine Mille · 2008
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Filling a gap in the literature currently available on the topic, this edited collection is the first examination of the interplay between urbanization, language variation and language change in fifteen major Arab cities. The Arab world presents very different types and degrees of urbanization, from well established old capital-cities such as Cairo to new emerging capital-cities such as Amman or Nouakchott, these in turn embedded in different types of national construction. It is these urban settings which raise questions concerning the dynamics of homogenization/differentiation and the processes of standardization due to the coexistence of competing linguistic models.
Book details
- Year
- 2008
- Language
- English
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Editions
- 1
- Pages
- 368
- ISBN
- 9780415773119
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