Author: Jochen Pleines
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa, North
Languages : fr
Pages : 388
Book Description
Ce volume est intéressant A plusieurs titres, et d'abord par le fait que la plupart des auteurs ne sont pas seulement des linguistes (au sens occidental et moderne du terme) maghrébins, mais encore en poste au Maghreb: cela prouve l'universalisation de notre discipline. Ensuite, les nombreux articles en anglais (7 sur 20) montrent que la linguistique au Maghreb (en fait, au Maroc) est sortie, sur les plans thématique et méthodologique, de l'orbite de la linguistique française (mais dans quelle mesure n'est-ce pas pour entrer dans celle de la linguistique américaine?). Enfin, en réduisant I'arabe classique à la portion congrue (2 articles sur 20) et en privilégiant l'arabe dialectal, le berbère et le français, ce volume prend à contre-pied non seulement les idéologies officielles, mais encore les mythologies populaires, en matière de langue. Conséquence de ce qui précède, la quasi-absence de la tradition linguistique arabe, où il est bien difficile de ne pas voir un phénomène de déculturation/acculturation (certains linguistes marocains, comme A. Moutaoukil, la connaissent, mais il ne figure pas au sommaire du présent volume). -- from http://www.jstor.org (Feb. 5, 2014).
La Linguistique au Maghreb
Author: Jochen Pleines
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa, North
Languages : fr
Pages : 388
Book Description
Ce volume est intéressant A plusieurs titres, et d'abord par le fait que la plupart des auteurs ne sont pas seulement des linguistes (au sens occidental et moderne du terme) maghrébins, mais encore en poste au Maghreb: cela prouve l'universalisation de notre discipline. Ensuite, les nombreux articles en anglais (7 sur 20) montrent que la linguistique au Maghreb (en fait, au Maroc) est sortie, sur les plans thématique et méthodologique, de l'orbite de la linguistique française (mais dans quelle mesure n'est-ce pas pour entrer dans celle de la linguistique américaine?). Enfin, en réduisant I'arabe classique à la portion congrue (2 articles sur 20) et en privilégiant l'arabe dialectal, le berbère et le français, ce volume prend à contre-pied non seulement les idéologies officielles, mais encore les mythologies populaires, en matière de langue. Conséquence de ce qui précède, la quasi-absence de la tradition linguistique arabe, où il est bien difficile de ne pas voir un phénomène de déculturation/acculturation (certains linguistes marocains, comme A. Moutaoukil, la connaissent, mais il ne figure pas au sommaire du présent volume). -- from http://www.jstor.org (Feb. 5, 2014).
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa, North
Languages : fr
Pages : 388
Book Description
Ce volume est intéressant A plusieurs titres, et d'abord par le fait que la plupart des auteurs ne sont pas seulement des linguistes (au sens occidental et moderne du terme) maghrébins, mais encore en poste au Maghreb: cela prouve l'universalisation de notre discipline. Ensuite, les nombreux articles en anglais (7 sur 20) montrent que la linguistique au Maghreb (en fait, au Maroc) est sortie, sur les plans thématique et méthodologique, de l'orbite de la linguistique française (mais dans quelle mesure n'est-ce pas pour entrer dans celle de la linguistique américaine?). Enfin, en réduisant I'arabe classique à la portion congrue (2 articles sur 20) et en privilégiant l'arabe dialectal, le berbère et le français, ce volume prend à contre-pied non seulement les idéologies officielles, mais encore les mythologies populaires, en matière de langue. Conséquence de ce qui précède, la quasi-absence de la tradition linguistique arabe, où il est bien difficile de ne pas voir un phénomène de déculturation/acculturation (certains linguistes marocains, comme A. Moutaoukil, la connaissent, mais il ne figure pas au sommaire du présent volume). -- from http://www.jstor.org (Feb. 5, 2014).
Language and Identity in the Middle East and North Africa
Author: Yasir Suleiman
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136787771
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 201
Book Description
The question of identity in relation to language has hardly been dealt with in the Middle East and North Africa, in spite of the centrality of these issues to a variety of scholarly debates concerning this strategically important part of the world. The book seeks to cover a variety of themes in this area.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136787771
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 201
Book Description
The question of identity in relation to language has hardly been dealt with in the Middle East and North Africa, in spite of the centrality of these issues to a variety of scholarly debates concerning this strategically important part of the world. The book seeks to cover a variety of themes in this area.
Entanglements of the Maghreb
Author: Julius Dihstelhoff
Publisher: transcript Verlag
ISBN: 3839452775
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
The impulse for the recent transformations in the Arab world came from the Maghreb. Research on the region has been on the rise since, yet much remains to be done when it comes to interdisciplinary comparative research. The Maghreb is a heterogeneous region that deserves thorough investigation. This volume focuses on Entanglements as a cross-field and cross-lingual concept to generate a new approach to the region and its inner interdependencies as well as exchanges with other regions. Eminent researchers conceptualize Entanglements through the description of various thematic fields and actors in motion, addressing culture, politics, social affairs, and economics.
Publisher: transcript Verlag
ISBN: 3839452775
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
The impulse for the recent transformations in the Arab world came from the Maghreb. Research on the region has been on the rise since, yet much remains to be done when it comes to interdisciplinary comparative research. The Maghreb is a heterogeneous region that deserves thorough investigation. This volume focuses on Entanglements as a cross-field and cross-lingual concept to generate a new approach to the region and its inner interdependencies as well as exchanges with other regions. Eminent researchers conceptualize Entanglements through the description of various thematic fields and actors in motion, addressing culture, politics, social affairs, and economics.
Language Contact and Language Conflict in Arabic
Author: Aleya Rouchdy
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136122265
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
This book contains 17 studies by leading international scholars working on a wide range of topics in Arabic socio-linguistics, divided into four parts. The studies in Part 1 address questions of national language planning in a diglossic situation, with a particular focus on North Africa. 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 examines language choice in such diverse contexts as popular preaching, humour and Arab women's writing. 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.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136122265
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
This book contains 17 studies by leading international scholars working on a wide range of topics in Arabic socio-linguistics, divided into four parts. The studies in Part 1 address questions of national language planning in a diglossic situation, with a particular focus on North Africa. 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 examines language choice in such diverse contexts as popular preaching, humour and Arab women's writing. 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.
Language and Society in the Middle East and North Africa
Author: Yasir Suleiman
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317849388
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 301
Book Description
This book investigates issues of central importance in understanding the role of language in society in the Middle East and North Africa. In particular, it covers issues of collective identity and variation as they relate to Arabic, Berber, English, Persian and Turkish in the fields of gender, national affiliation, the debate over authenticity and modernity, language reforms and language legislation. In addition, the book investigates how some of these issues are realized in the diaspora at both the micro and macro levels.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317849388
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 301
Book Description
This book investigates issues of central importance in understanding the role of language in society in the Middle East and North Africa. In particular, it covers issues of collective identity and variation as they relate to Arabic, Berber, English, Persian and Turkish in the fields of gender, national affiliation, the debate over authenticity and modernity, language reforms and language legislation. In addition, the book investigates how some of these issues are realized in the diaspora at both the micro and macro levels.
Sociolinguistics in African Contexts
Author: Augustin Emmanuel Ebongue
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319496115
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 349
Book Description
This volume offers a new perspective on sociolinguistics in Africa. Eschewing the traditional approach which looks at the interaction between European and African languages in the wake of colonialism, this book turns its focus to the social dynamics of African languages and African societies. Divided into two sections, the book offers insight into the crucial topics such as: language vitality and endangerment, the birth of ‘new languages’, a sociolinguistics of the city, language contact and language politics. It spans the continent from Algeria to South Africa, Guinea-Bissau to Kenya and addresses the following broad themes: Language variation, contact and changeThe dynamics of urban, rural and youth languagesPolicy and practice This book provides an alternative to the Eurocentric view of sociolinguistic dynamics in Africa, and will make an ideal read or supplemental textbook for scholars and students in the field/disciplines of African languages and linguistics, and those interested in southern theory or ‘sociolinguistics in the margins’.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319496115
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 349
Book Description
This volume offers a new perspective on sociolinguistics in Africa. Eschewing the traditional approach which looks at the interaction between European and African languages in the wake of colonialism, this book turns its focus to the social dynamics of African languages and African societies. Divided into two sections, the book offers insight into the crucial topics such as: language vitality and endangerment, the birth of ‘new languages’, a sociolinguistics of the city, language contact and language politics. It spans the continent from Algeria to South Africa, Guinea-Bissau to Kenya and addresses the following broad themes: Language variation, contact and changeThe dynamics of urban, rural and youth languagesPolicy and practice This book provides an alternative to the Eurocentric view of sociolinguistic dynamics in Africa, and will make an ideal read or supplemental textbook for scholars and students in the field/disciplines of African languages and linguistics, and those interested in southern theory or ‘sociolinguistics in the margins’.
Multilingualism, Cultural Identity, and Education in Morocco
Author: Moha Ennaji
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 0387239804
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
In this book, I attempt to show how colonial and postcolonial political forces have endeavoured to reconstruct the national identity of Morocco, on the basis of cultural representations and ideological constructions closely related to nationalist and ethnolinguistic trends. I discuss how the issue of language is at the centre of the current cultural and political debates in Morocco. The present book is an investigation of the ramifications of multilingualism for language choice patterns and attitudes among Moroccans. More importantly, the book assesses the roles played by linguistic and cultural factors in the development and evolution of Moroccan society. It also focuses on the impact of multilingualism on cultural authenticity and national identity. Having been involved in research on language and culture for many years, I am particularly interested in linguistic and cultural assimilation or alienation, and under what conditions it takes place, especially today that more and more Moroccans speak French and are influenced by Western social behaviour more than ever before. In the process, I provide the reader with an updated description of the different facets of language use, language maintenance and shift, and language attitudes, focusing on the linguistic situation whose analysis is often blurred by emotional reactions, ideological discourses, political biases, simplistic assessments, and ethnolinguistic identities.
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 0387239804
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
In this book, I attempt to show how colonial and postcolonial political forces have endeavoured to reconstruct the national identity of Morocco, on the basis of cultural representations and ideological constructions closely related to nationalist and ethnolinguistic trends. I discuss how the issue of language is at the centre of the current cultural and political debates in Morocco. The present book is an investigation of the ramifications of multilingualism for language choice patterns and attitudes among Moroccans. More importantly, the book assesses the roles played by linguistic and cultural factors in the development and evolution of Moroccan society. It also focuses on the impact of multilingualism on cultural authenticity and national identity. Having been involved in research on language and culture for many years, I am particularly interested in linguistic and cultural assimilation or alienation, and under what conditions it takes place, especially today that more and more Moroccans speak French and are influenced by Western social behaviour more than ever before. In the process, I provide the reader with an updated description of the different facets of language use, language maintenance and shift, and language attitudes, focusing on the linguistic situation whose analysis is often blurred by emotional reactions, ideological discourses, political biases, simplistic assessments, and ethnolinguistic identities.
Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics
Author: Elabbas Benmamoun
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9027291306
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
This volume offers a selection from the papers presented at the 2005 Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics, held at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The papers cover a variety of topics in Arabic Linguistics, ranging from the lexicon, phonology, syntax and computational linguistics.
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9027291306
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
This volume offers a selection from the papers presented at the 2005 Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics, held at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The papers cover a variety of topics in Arabic Linguistics, ranging from the lexicon, phonology, syntax and computational linguistics.
The Other Languages of Europe
Author: Guus Extra
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
ISBN: 9781853595097
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 470
Book Description
The book offers demographic, sociolinguistic, and educational perspectives on the status of both regional and immigrant languages in Europe and in a wider international context. From a cross-national point of view, empirical evidence on the status of these other languages of multicultural Europe is brought together in a combined frame of reference.
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
ISBN: 9781853595097
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 470
Book Description
The book offers demographic, sociolinguistic, and educational perspectives on the status of both regional and immigrant languages in Europe and in a wider international context. From a cross-national point of view, empirical evidence on the status of these other languages of multicultural Europe is brought together in a combined frame of reference.
Manual of Romance Languages in Africa
Author: Ursula Reutner
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110628864
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 880
Book Description
With more than two thousand languages spread over its territory, multilingualism is a common reality in Africa. The main official languages of most African countries are Indo-European, in many instances Romance. As they were primarily brought to Africa in the era of colonization, the areas discussed in this volume are thirty-five states that were once ruled by Belgium, France, Italy, Portugal, or Spain, and the African regions still belonging to three of them. Twenty-six states are presented in relation to French, four to Italian, six to Portuguese, and two to Spanish. They are considered in separate chapters according to their sociolinguistic situation, linguistic history, external language policy, linguistic characteristics, and internal language policy. The result is a comprehensive overview of the Romance languages in modern-day Africa. It follows a coherent structure, offers linguistic and sociolinguistic information, and illustrates language contact situations, power relations, as well as the cross-fertilization and mutual enrichment emerging from the interplay of languages and cultures in Africa.
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110628864
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 880
Book Description
With more than two thousand languages spread over its territory, multilingualism is a common reality in Africa. The main official languages of most African countries are Indo-European, in many instances Romance. As they were primarily brought to Africa in the era of colonization, the areas discussed in this volume are thirty-five states that were once ruled by Belgium, France, Italy, Portugal, or Spain, and the African regions still belonging to three of them. Twenty-six states are presented in relation to French, four to Italian, six to Portuguese, and two to Spanish. They are considered in separate chapters according to their sociolinguistic situation, linguistic history, external language policy, linguistic characteristics, and internal language policy. The result is a comprehensive overview of the Romance languages in modern-day Africa. It follows a coherent structure, offers linguistic and sociolinguistic information, and illustrates language contact situations, power relations, as well as the cross-fertilization and mutual enrichment emerging from the interplay of languages and cultures in Africa.