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The Routledge Handbook of Arabic and Identity offers a comprehensive and up to date account of studies that relate the Arabic language in its entirety to identity. This handbook offers new trajectories in understanding language and identity more generally and Arabic and identity in particular.
List of contents
Table of ContentsNotes on the Contributors
List of Figures
List of Tables
Acknowledgements
Introduction and Overview
Introduction: The Arabic Language and Identity
Keith Walters
Part I - Identity and Variation1. From
Rajjal to
Rayyal: Ideologies and shift among young Bedouins in Qatar
Rizwan Ahmad and Heba Al-Kababji
2. The emergence of a new national linguistic variety in Saudi Arabia: A perceptual dialectology account
Yousef Al-Rojaie
3. Identity and/or acts of identity in light of discourse markers in spoken Arabic
Abdelaadim Bidaoui
4. The expression of rural and urban identities in Arabic
Ahmed Ech-Charfi
5. Optional
You¿ and the invocation of shared identity in Levantine Arabic
Youssef Haddad
6. Saudi folks' attitudes and Pprceptions toward accent switches: The /k/ reflexes across dialects
Manal Ismail
7. Language and identity in post-Revolution Tunisia between authenticity and commodification
Lotfi Sayahi
8. Attitudes to language in the Arab World
Nadia Shalaby
Part II - Identity and Politics
9. Arabic language ideologies: Diglossia
Ashraf Abdelhay and Yasir Suleiman
10. Egyptian identities at times of crisis
Amira Agameya
11. Pan-Arab identity in the post-Arab-Spring Era
Abdulkafi Albirini
12. Arabic and identity in (the conflict-ridden reality in) Israel
Muhammad Amara
13. The discursive construction of Jordanian identity in online discourse
Muhammad Badarneh
14. Erasing Arabic as an entrance ticket to Israeli society: On orientalism, militarism and the Mizrahi option in Israel/Palestine
Yonatan Mendel
Part III - Identity Globalisation and Diversity
15. Language and identity construction in the Arabian Gulf: Challenges faced in a globalized world
Ahmad Al-Issa and Laila S. Dahan
16. Arabic(s) in diaspora: Speakers, usages and contacts
Alexandrine Barontini and Lauren Wagner
17. Complex identities: Arabic in the diaspora
Luca D'Anna & Chiara Amoruso
Index
About the author
Reem Bassiouney is a professor (and chair) at the American University in Cairo, Egypt. She has eight linguistics books to her name. She is the author of
Functions of Code-Switching in Egypt (2006),
Language and Identity in Modern Egypt (2014) and
Arabic Sociolinguistics (2009; second edition 2020). Her edited volumes include
The Routledge Handbook of Arabic Linguistics (co-editor with Benmamoun) and
Identity and Dialect Performance (2017). She is also the editor and founder of the Routledge Studies in Language and Identity series. Bassiouney is also an award-winning novelist.
Keith Walters is Professor Emeritus from the Department of Applied Linguistics at Portland State University, Portland, Oregon, USA. During his career, he also held positions in the English Department at the Ohio State University and the Linguistics Department at the University of Texas-Austin. He has taught English as an additional language in the US, Tunisia, Guinea and the West Bank and helped train teachers in those countries, Morocco, Egypt and Vietnam. His research interests include codeswitching, diglossic switching, language ideologies, and language and nationalism as well as language and the law. An award-winning teacher, Walters is co-author of two widely used composition textbooks,
Everything's an Argument (8th edn) and
Everyone's an Author (3rd edn).
Summary
The Routledge Handbook of Arabic and Identity offers a comprehensive and up to date account of studies that relate the Arabic language in its entirety to identity. This handbook offers new trajectories in understanding language and identity more generally and Arabic and identity in particular.
