Language Contact and Language Conflict in Arabic

Part 1

The studies in Part 1 address questions of national language planning in a diglossic situation, with a particular focus on North Africa.

Part 2

Part 2 explores the relationship of identity and language choice in different Arabic-speaking communities living both within and outside the Arab World.

Part 3

Part 3 examines language choice in such diverse contexts as popular preaching, humour and Arab women's writing.

Part 4

Part 4 contains 5 papers in which variation, code-switching and generational language shift in the Arabic-language diaspora in Europe and the USA are the focus.

The collection as a whole provides wide-ranging introduction to key areas of current research, which will be of interest to the general sociolinguist as well as the Arabic language specialist.