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"This book is intended as a textbook and as a resource for research on variation and change in Arabic. The book was designed with a wide range of readers in mind, including students of Arabic linguistics, scholars in linguistics who may or may not know Arabic, and anyone who wishes to expand their knowledge about sociolinguistic theory and methodology as applied to Arabic data"--
List of contents
Acknowledgements; List of tables; List of figures; List of maps; Transcription, symbols and abbreviations; 1. Introduction; 2. Methodology - principles and practice; 3. Gender; 4. Education; 5. Social stratification; 6. Religion and ethnicity; 7. Language change; 8. Spatial variation; 9. Contact and diffusion; References; Index of subjects; Index of places; Index of names.
About the author
Enam Al-Wer is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Essex. A specialist in sociolinguistics, her research focusses on variation and change and dialect contact in Arabic. She is co-author of A Grammar of Jordanian Arabic (2022) and co-editor of three books, including The Routledge Handbook of Arabic Sociolinguistics (2019).Uri Horesh is a sociolinguist specialising in language variation and change and language contact, especially in Palestine. They formerly held a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Essex and are a co-editor of The Routledge Handbook of Arabic Sociolinguistics (2019).Bruno Herin is a lecturer at INALCO (Paris) where he teaches Levantine Arabic and Arabic dialectology. His chief interest is in the description of Arabic vernaculars and minority languages of the Middle East and in linguistic variation. He is co-author of A Grammar of Jordanian Arabic (2022).Rudolf de Jong is Director of the Netherlands-Flemish Institute in Cairo. He specialises in Arabic dialectology and has authored several articles and two books on dialects of Bedouin tribes in Sinai (2000 and 2011). He served as General Secretary of the Association Internationale de Dialectologie Arabe (AIDA).
Summary
Written by four leading experts, this book provides a comprehensive overview of sociolinguistic variation and linguistic change in Arabic. It includes rich datasets, along with recommendations for further reading and sets of exercises, making it essential reading for both scholars and students in Arabic sociolinguistics and related fields.
