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The politics of written language in the Arab world : writing change / edited by Jacob Hoigilt, Gunvor Mejdell
- Published
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2017.
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource
- Additional Creators
- Høigilt, Jacob and Mejdell, Gunvor
Access Online
- www.jstor.org , Open Access
- Series
- Restrictions on Access
- Open Access Unrestricted online access
- Contents
- Introduction / Jacob Hoigilt and Gunvor Mejdell -- A language for the people? quantitative indicators of written darija and 'ammiyya in Cairo and Rabat / Kristian Takvam Kindt and Tewodros Kebede -- Diglossia as ideology / Kristen Brustad -- Changing norms, concepts and practices of written Arabic: a 'long distance' perspective / Gunvor Mejdell -- Contemporary darija writings in Morocco: ideology and practices / Catherine Miller -- Morocco: an informal passage to literacy in darija (Moroccan Arabic) / Dominique Caubet -- Adab sakhir (satirical literature) and the use of Egyptian vernacular / Eva Marie Haland -- Dialect with an attitude: language and criticism in new Egyptian print media / Jacob Hoigilt -- Writing oral and literary culture: the case of the contemporary Moroccan zajal / Alexander Elinson -- The politics of pro-'ammiyya language ideology in Egypt / Mariam Aboelezz -- Moralizing stances: discursive play and ideologies of language and gender in Moroccan digital discourse / Atiqa Hachimi -- The language of online activism: a case from Kuwait / Jon Nordenson -- The oralization of writing: argumentation, profanity and literacy in cyberspace / Emad Abdel Latif.
- Subject(s)
- Written communication—Arab countries
- Arabic language—Written Arabic
- Arabic language—Political aspects
- Arabic language—Social aspects
- Arabic language—Dialects—Egypt
- Arabic language—Dialects—Morocco
- LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES—Linguistics—General
- Arabic language—Dialects
- Written communication
- Arab countries
- Egypt
- Morocco
- Genre(s)
- ISBN
- 9789004346178 (electronic bk.)
9004346171 (electronic bk.)
9004346163
9789004346161
9789004346161 (hardback ; alk. paper) - Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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