The Politics of Written Language in the Arab World. Writing Change

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The Politics of Written Language in the Arab World asks how the central sociolinguistic notions of language ideology and diglossia are affected by the rapidly increasing amount of writing in the Arabic vernacular. The Politics of Written Language in the Arab World Contents Preface List of Contributors Introduction 1 A Language for the People? Quantitative Indicators of Written dārija and āmmiyya in Cairo and Rabat 2 Diglossia as Ideology 3 Changing Norms, Concepts and Practices of Written Arabic A ‘Long Distance’ Perspective 4 Contemporary dārija Writings in Morocco Ideology and Practices 5 Morocco: An Informal Passage to Literacy in dārija (Moroccan Arabic) 6 Adab sākhir (Satirical Literature) and the Use of Egyptian Vernacular 7 Dialect with an Attitude Language and Criticism in New Egyptian Print Media 8 Writing Oral and Literary Culture The Case of the Contemporary Moroccan zajal 9 The Politics of Pro-āmmiyya Language Ideology in Egypt 10 Moralizing Stances Discursive Play and Ideologies of Language and Gender in Moroccan Digital Discourse 11 The Language of Online Activism A Case from Kuwait 12 The Oralization of Writing Argumentation, Profanity and Literacy in Cyberspace Index