Language and Identity in the Arab World

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Language and Identity in the Arab World explores the inextricable link between language and identity, referring particularly to the Arab world. Spanning Indonesia to the United States, the Arab world is here imagined as a continually changing one, with the Arab diaspora asserting its linguistic identity across the world. Crucial questions on transforming linguistic landscapes, the role and implications of migration, and the impact of technology on language use are explored by established and emerging scholars in the field of applied and socio-linguistics. The book asks such crucial questions as how language contact affects or transforms identity, how language reflects changing identities among migrant communities, and how language choices contribute to identity construction in social media. As well as appreciating the breadth and scope of the Arab world, this anthology focuses on the transformative role of language within indigenous and migrant communities as they negotiate between their heritage languages and those spoken by the wider society. Investigating the ways in which identity continues to be imagined and re-constructed in and among Arab communities, this book is indispensable to students, teachers, and anyone who is interested in language contact, linguistic landscapes, and minority language retention as well as the intersections of language and technology. Cover Half Title Series Title Copyright Contents List of Tables List of Figures List of Maps List of Contributors Preface Introduction Part I Linguistic Landscapes 1 Persia and Oman: An Historical and Linguistic Intersection 2 Landscaping in Moroccan Arabic: Language Regimentation, Practices and Ideologies 3 Arabic in Michigan: An American Linguistic Landscape 4 Translanguaging in Gulf English-Medium Instruction Higher Education 5 Linguistic and Conceptual Challenges of Public Opinion Surveys in the Arab Gulf States Part II Unpacking Identities 6 A Place to Belong: The Social Construction of Badu Identity in Jazan, Saudi Arabia 7 Intersecting Scapes, Global Flows, and New Identity Options: Female Qatari Students’ Informal Learning of Turkish Language 8 Arab Influencers and Social Media: A Sociolinguistic Study of a New Culture 9 Multilingualism in Lebanon: Code-Switching as Cultural Representation 10 Perceptions of Codeswitching and Identity in the Egyptian Context Part III Arabic in Migrant Communities 11 Dialect Variation Among Omani Migrants in Muscat: The Construction of Social Identity Through Style Shifting 12 The Asymmetric Linguistic Identities of African Soqotris: A Triadic Interaction 13 The Role of Education and Dialect Contact in the Realization of (ðˤ) and (dˤ) in the Speech of Palestinian Children and Adolescents in Syria 14 Family Language Policy Between Ideology and Practice: A Domain-Based Exploration of Arabic as a Heritage Language in the United States 15 Aspects of Speech in the Hadhrami-Descent Community of Indonesia Index