Cases Of Written Code-Switching In Egyptian Opposition Newspapers

Ibrahim, Zeinab

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“…), and on the other, emerging literature suggests that pan-Arab nationalism is now a spent force (Phillips 2014). Moreover, although there has been a tendency to delimit the discussion of language politics in Egypt to the question of nationalism, it has recently been suggested that ʿāmmiyya might be used to counter the hegemonic discourse of the (language) authorities (Bassiouney 2014;Ibrahim 2010). The symbolic significance of ʿāmmiyya in this latter case is clearly very different (cf.…”

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The Politics of Pro-͑āmmiyya Language Ideology in Egypt

Aboelezz¹

2017

The Politics of Written Language in the Arab World

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The Politics of Pro-͑āmmiyya Language Ideology in Egypt

Aboelezz¹

2017

The Politics of Written Language in the Arab World

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Orality, Culture, And Language

Holes

2013

The Oxford Handbook of Arabic Linguistics

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This article explores the relationship between linguistic form and function in the varying cultural landscapes of the contemporary Arabic-speaking world, including spontaneous speech, the contemporary electronic media (television, radio, the Internet), cinema, theater, and traditional performed oral literature, which have been revived and “reinvented.” It is shown that the relationship between orality and language in Arabic is complex. The layman’s mental landscape is of a “high,” literary, codified variety of the language strongly identified with a unifying religion (Islam) and a “golden age” of past imperial and literary glories, carrying great cultural prestige; and a “low,” chaotic (often regarded as grammarless) but homely variety associated with domesticity, intimacy, and the daily round. The emotional resonances of the two varieties are and always have been different. Consequently, they have, through the ages, occupied separate functional niches in all linguistically mediated communication, be it speech, writing, song, poetry, cinema, or theater.

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Codeswitching and Related Issues Involving Arabic

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Owens

2013

The Oxford Handbook of Arabic Linguistics

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Bilingual speech involving Arabic has been an important source of linguistic research on the language. The greater part of this research has involved Arabic in contact with other languages; in recent years, greater systematic attention has been given to Arabic diglossic speech as well. This article looks at Arabic in contact with other languages and also deals with diglossic speech. It also briefly summarizes the use of secret languages, which has close structural parallels to code switching.

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Cases Of Written Code-Switching In Egyptian Opposition Newspapers

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The Politics of Pro-͑āmmiyya Language Ideology in Egypt

The Politics of Pro-͑āmmiyya Language Ideology in Egypt

Orality, Culture, And Language

Codeswitching and Related Issues Involving Arabic

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