Interacting with domestic workers in Kuwait: grammatical features of foreigner talk. A case study

Dashti, Abdulmohsen A.

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“…However, according to Tosco and Manfredi (2013: 503), this variety went through a process of depidginization due to the influential role played by Chadian Arabic. 5 Also see, for Kuwait (Wiswall 2002;Dashti 2013); for Oman (Naess 2008); and for Qatar (Bakir 2010). 6 We note that when Asian migrants exhibit dialectal variation in their Arabic, this is always restricted to with lexical items.…”

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Arabic-based Pidgins and Creoles

Manfredi¹,

Tosco°

2014

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Arabic-based Pidgins and Creoles

Manfredi¹,

Tosco°

2014

JPCL

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“…Al-Sharkawi's third grouping includes dialects descended from Bedouin dialects directly, as opposed to the urban dialects which descended from this simplified koine he proposes. However, Dashti's (2013) exploration of foreigner talk in Kuwait found that the agreement system was completely lost when Arabs directed their speech toward their foreign workers. 6 In particular, the number system was completely lost in nouns and adjectives (Dashti 2013:80).…”

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“…First, their account predicts the loss of gender and animacy agreement in the plural. Al-Sharkawi explicitly argues that the dialects outside of the Peninsula began from a starting point without certain agreement forms, and given Dashti (2013), we can predict that agreement would simplify further, losing dAgr as well. Secondly, we might expect an areal diffusion of agreement, with dialects closer to the Peninsula having more features of agreement and dialects further away having less.…”

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A parallel corpus-based exploration of deflected agreement in Arabic varieties

Rouillier

2024

Proc Ling Soc Amer

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Agreement in modern Arabic varieties exhibits much variation despite sharing similar features, such as feminine singular (deflected) agreement with plural controllers. The presence of deflected agreement has been attributed both to retention (Bettega and D’Anna 2022) and to a process of loss and reborrowing from Modern Standard Arabic (Al-Sharkawi 2014; Versteegh 1984}. Using evidence from a multi-dialectal parallel corpus, I argue that neither of these accounts adequately explains the variation present in the dialects. This study highlights the need to understand the language-specific changes in modern Arabic varieties and the utility of parallel corpora for exploring morphosemantic variation.

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“…Sociolinguistic studies addressing language learning, language use and/or the commodification of language within care work contexts are in their relative infancy; the following work represents the bulk of the literature: Duff et al (2000), Schwartz (2006), Lorente (2010Lorente ( , 2012Lorente ( , 2017, Levin (2011), Ladegaard (2012, Dashti (2013), Divita (2014), Kwan and Dunworth (2016), Gonçalves (2015), ), Mick (2015, Jansson (2016); Otomo (2016), Strömmer (2016, Gonçalves and Schluter (2017), , ), North (2017 Kaiper (2018); Muth (2018), Ben Said (2019), Guinto (2019), Piller and Takahashi (2013) and Tang and Kan (2019). The heightened attention to these topics in recent years parallels the growing prominence of the global care industry that is increasingly pairing employers or clients together with employees who do not share a common language or cultural background.…”

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Introduction: Language, inequality and global care work

Gonçalves

Schluter

2020

International Journal of the Sociology of Language

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IntroductionLanguage functions as a symbolic, interactional, material and ideological resource. On the one hand, it can perpetuate inequality by facilitating modes of domination and subordination between individuals of different status. On the other hand, those with access to linguistic and other semiotic resources may exploit them for their own empowerment. These considerations are relevant to every communicative context; however, they are particularly salient to workplace settings (Moyer 2018). These considerations are further accentuated in care work contexts, which function as prime sites of both privilege and marginalization. Within these sites, extremely asymmetrical power relations stem from unequal access to economic, material, linguistic and social capital (Bourdieu 1991) and, in some cases, also citizenship.A sociolinguistic investigation into the largely under-investigated sites of care work contexts merits attention for a number of reasons, three of which receive mention here. These sites' primary situatedness within private residences that, by definition, function outside of the realms of institutional oversight and control, represents the first of these reasons. Here, the linguistic tools of discursive discrimination can flourish as a direct result of their embeddedness in these hidden domains (Ladegaard 2017). The methodological challenges associated with both attaining access to these sites and collecting data from these often marginalized participantswith their ethnic, racial, socio-economic and linguistic backgrounds that typically differ from those of researchers (Anderson 2001; Lutz 2011)intensifies the invisibility of these domains. In conjunction with the aim of increasing their visibility, a second justification that drives this special issue's inquiry into care work includes the potential to reformulate conceptualizations of market dynamics based on a fuller understanding of the magnitude and influence of this sector. Recent work that addresses language and the workplace is often framed according

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Interacting with domestic workers in Kuwait: grammatical features of foreigner talk. A case study

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A parallel corpus-based exploration of deflected agreement in Arabic varieties

Introduction: Language, inequality and global care work

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