Arabic Sociolinguistics

Bassiouney, Reem

doi:10.3366/edinburgh/9780748623730.001.0001

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“…Like Muslims around the world, they believe that Arabic is the language of God and the inhabitants of Paradise and that sacred Arabic texts can afford healing, protection and spiritual transformation (cf. Bassiouney 2009;Boyle 2004;Brenner 2001;Nelson 1985;Reichmuth 2009). Fulbe hold what Bassiouney (2009) refers to as the traditional Muslim position; while translation of the Qur'an is permitted, the sacred text is ritually valid only in Classical Arabic (cf.…”

Section: Arabic Language Of the Qur'anmentioning

confidence: 95%

Qur'anic school sermons as a site for sacred and second language socialisation

Moore

2013

Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development

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Research on Islamic education in Africa has focused on the core curriculum of elementary Qur'anic school -that is, the memorisation, recitation, reading, and writing of the Qur'an without explanation of the literal meaning of the sacred text. Taking a language socialisation perspective, I examine the Qur'anic school sermon as practiced by Fulbe in northern Cameroon. I situate the practice by providing an overview of the Qur'anic school tradition in this community and of the sociolinguistic context in which Fulbe children are being schooled. I then present discourse analysis of a sermon, showing how the activity provides children with instruction in proper Muslim conduct and feeling, as well as Qur'anic Arabic text that is glossed in Fulfulde and connected to their daily lives. I conclude by discussing Qur'anic school sermons as routine activities in which children learn to engage with the Qur'an and other Arabic texts as language that they can comprehend and use in ways that are socially and culturally appropriate in their community.

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Section: Arabic Language Of the Qur'anmentioning

confidence: 95%

Qur'anic school sermons as a site for sacred and second language socialisation

Moore

2013

Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development

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“…Therefore, the comparison between the prestige of the standard with the prestige of a dialect was minimized, as the most influential comparison was that between variations of dialects in a nation. Bassiouney (2009) found two main reasons to assume one dialect as being the most powerful. She found that socioeconomic power of the city over the suburbs as one reason.…”

Section: Language and Prestigementioning

confidence: 99%

The Ghawa Syndrome in Kuwaiti-Arabic Verbs

Taqi¹

2018

JAL

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The "Ghawa Syndrome" is a well-known linguistic phenomenon in the Arabian Gulf. In this phenomenon, the first open syllabus of a word is re-syllabified. The current study investigates the occurrence of this linguistic feature in Kuwaiti verbs within the variation of accents in the speech of two ethnic groups (Najdis and Ajamis) and three generations. The ethnicity factor was believed to play a major role in the linguistic feature under investigation due to their varying social and economic status. 48 Kuwaiti individuals represented the two investigated ethnicities and three age groups (chosen according to relevant milestones in the history of Kuwait), and with an equal number of males and females participating in data collection. Three different techniques of data collection were utilized (picture-naming, map task, interview & questionnaires). The results reflected an increase in the use of the Ghawa Syndrome across generations in the Ajami group, while the Najdi dialect was rather stable. This linguistic familiarity seems to affect the two ethnicities, bringing them closer to each other.

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“…English indexes that the speaker has received a good education, comes from a high socioeconomic status, or has been brought up in a developed foreign country. On the other hand, English is historically associated with the British colonization in Egypt (Bassiouney, 2009(Bassiouney, , 2014. People went very far in relating English to foreign countries to the extent that during the January 25 th revolution, some of them accused protesters who spoke English of being spies and conspiring against their own country.…”

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“…ECA is also used in movies and the vast majority of television talk shows. Therefore, it is associated with intimacy, friendliness, and informality (Bassiouney, 2009(Bassiouney, , 2014.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…CS has been studied from different perspectives, including the psycholinguistic and sociolinguistic (Gumperz, 1982;Nilep, 2006). Reasons for CS vary; sometimes people resort to it because they are not completely proficient in one language and feel more eloquent in another language (Bassiouney, 2009;Myers-Scotton, 1993b). In other cases people use CS for accommodation purposes.…”

Section: Background Of the Studymentioning

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Identity and the Indexicality of Code-switching in the Egyptian Society

Mohamed¹

EPiC Series in Language and Linguistics

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This sociolinguistic paper analyzes the linguistic codes used in the Egyptian television series A Girl Called Zaat (Zaat), which was produced in 2013. This series is an adaptation of the novel Zaat or self by the leftist Egyptian novelist Son'a Allah Ibrahim. The series was chosen because it depicts the eras of several Egyptian presidents, and thus is abundant of important political and social events in Egypt, from the 1952 revolution to the 2011 revolution. These political and social incidents were very influential in the life of the heroine "Zaat", who represents Egyptians. It would be useful to examine how language was used to express the changes that were taking place in the Egyptian society and hence in Egyptian people's identities. This research attempts to answer these questions: What were the codes used in the series? What were the indexes of these codes? How was Codeswitching (CS) related to identity? Language and identity have a strong relationship and a reciprocal influence. The Theory of indexicality was used in the analysis, particularly second and third order indexicality. The analysis revealed that there were three codes in the series: Egyptian Colloquial Arabic (ECA), English, and Standard Arabic (SA). Hopefully, by examining the indexes of these three codes, the analysis of this series would be of interest and benefit in highlighting the Egyptian social and linguistic situation.

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Arabic Sociolinguistics

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Qur'anic school sermons as a site for sacred and second language socialisation

Qur'anic school sermons as a site for sacred and second language socialisation

The Ghawa Syndrome in Kuwaiti-Arabic Verbs

Identity and the Indexicality of Code-switching in the Egyptian Society

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