To date, most scholarship on Arabic language ideologies has focused on the contentious relationship between Standard Arabic and the spoken vernaculars. This paper, in contrast, draws attention to the hierarchies among the regional varieties of vernacular Arabic. Specifically, it makes visible the workings of what it calls the ‘Maghreb‐Mashreq language ideology’: the hierarchical relationship between Mashreqi (Middle Eastern) and Maghrebi (North African) vernacular Arabic varieties. The paper explores, in particular, the de/authentication of linguistic Arabness through a detailed analysis of a transnational pan‐Arab reality/talent TV show. Drawing on clips of situated interactions from this series, which have been uploaded to YouTube and commented upon by viewers, the paper argues that the new media is a critical site for reworking longstanding language ideologies and the politics of identity in the Arabic‐speaking world.[Arabic]

Cet article s’intéresse aux pratiques et représentations d’un vieux parler arabe citadin de la ville de Fès (le fassi) à Casablanca. Depuis des siècles, le fassi s’est imposé comme parler prestigieux désignant une identité citadine et aristocrate. Je m’interrogerai dans cet article sur les façons dont se traduisent ces anciennes valeurs sociolinguistiques et différentielles suite à l’immigration et au contact avec « l’autre » dans la société casablancaise contemporaine. L’objectif est de mettre en évidence l’évaluation sociale et la réinterprétation synchronique du parler fassi à Casablanca pour mieux comprendre les motivations sociales du changement (ou du maintien) linguistique. Cette étude s’inscrit dans la sociolinguistique variationniste et prend en considération les effets de l’âge et du genre sur la variation et le changement linguistique chez 32 locuteurs d’origine fassie à Casablanca. Les résultats montrent que le statut du parler fassi à Casablanca est assez compliqué et ne s’inscrit pas entièrement ni facilement dans les généralisations qui insistent sur l’état moribond des vieux parlers citadins au Maroc. En outre, l’investigation des sens indexicaux (attitudes et représentations) nous aide à comprendre pourquoi les variables linguistiques prennent des trajectoires différentes et nous permet aussi d’analyser les réinterprétations sociales des variables linguistiques dans un temps bien précis dans leur évolution.

The migration of old-urban elites to new-urban areas has been given scant attention in the sociolinguistics of mobility. This article examines language ideologies of differentiation that emerged from the migration of Morocco's bona fide old-urban elite from the city of Fez (the Fessis) to the new metropolis of Casablanca. This understudied sociolinguistic encounter brings into sharp focus two quintessential old-urban and new-urban varieties of Arabic along with their complex indexical system that links linguistic forms to identities, lifestyles, and moralities. Based on ethnography and discourse analysis of interviews with two women of Fessi extraction in Casablanca (a migrant and a local-born), I provide an in-depth account of what sounding Fessi means and accomplishes—and fails to accomplish—for these women, showing in the process the (re)production and change of language ideologies. The article demonstrates how changes in indexicalities relate to ongoing group boundary reconfiguration and to processes of linguistic (non)accommodation. (Arabic, North Africa, language ideologies, indexicality, gender, discourse analysis, sociolinguistics of mobility, historical prestige, social reallocation)*

Against a backdrop of declining manufacturing employment, this article uses a study of the call center industry to argue that English language proficiency is central to new service jobs in post-apartheid South Africa. Drawing on research in Durban, we in this study show that access to call center work-especially the highest paid niches-is heavily mediated by English language skills generally attainable only at the most elite high schools. In doing so, we argue that access to English-medium education can challenge racial disadvantage, but simultaneously that English can help to consolidate white privilege through the continued association of a 'prestigious' accent with whiteness. The study accordingly reveals the importance of language in the changing intersectionality of race and class and, in doing so, underlines the value of social and cultural perspectives in labor geography.

Concerning several attacks using letter bombs within Europe in the last couple of years and the highly rising number of new drugs, there is a need for new kinds of detection devices for explosives and drugs. We present a postscanner on basis of Terahertz (THz) spectroscopy using novel chemometric methods for the evaluation of detected THz fingerprints