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Arabic Sociolinguistics
  • Enam Al-Wer, Uri Horesh, Bruno Herin, Rudolf De Jong
  • Published online:
    01 July 2022
    Print publication:
    07 July 2022
  • Written by four leading experts, this book provides a comprehensive overview of sociolinguistic variation and linguistic change in Arabic. It introduces sociolinguistic theory, methods, and data step-by-step, using accessible language and extensive examples throughout. Topics covered include sociolinguistic methodology, social variables, language change, spatial variation, and contact and diffusion. Each topic is explained and illustrated using empirical data drawn from a wide array of Arabic-speaking communities in the Middle East and North Africa, as well as other parts of the world where Arabic is or was spoken, to provide a rich resource of individual dialects, as well as a comparative view of variation in Arabic. Each chapter also contains annotated suggestions for further reading and elaborate exercises. It is an essential resource for students studying Arabic in its social context, as well as anyone wishing to expand their knowledge of variation in Arabic.

  • 3 - Reconciling Formalism and Language Variation

  • Sandro Sessarego, University of Texas, Austin
  • Book:
    Interfaces and Domains of Contact-Driven Restructuring
    Published online:
    21 October 2021
    Print publication:
    04 November 2021, pp 57-65

  • Summary

    Chapter 3 provides an overview of a number of theoretical proposals that have been put forward in the literature to account for language variation. It elaborates on models that combine formal generative theorizing and quantitative sociolinguistic methodology, in line with current minimalist analyses (Adger & Smith 2005; Sessarego & Gutiérrez-Rexach 2011; Sessarego 2014a). This chapter also stresses the importance of embracing a perspective of mutual complementation – rather than mutual exclusion – between these two fields, especially when the varieties under study consist of stigmatized vernaculars, for which it may be hard to obtain reliable grammaticality judgments and that may be characterized by high levels of inter- and intra-speaker speech variability (Cornips & Poletto 2005).

  • The expression of evidentiality in French-English bilingual discourse

  • RUTH KING, TERRY NADASDI
  • Journal:
    Language in Society / Volume 28 / Issue 3 / July 1999
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    01 July 1999, pp. 355-365
    Print publication:
    July 1999

  • This study, drawing on data from a large sociolinguistic interview corpus for three Acadian communities of Atlantic Canada, concerns codeswitches involving verbs of opinion or belief (e.g. guess, think, imagine, believe) in French-English bilingual discourse. The codeswitch itself serves to underscore the speaker's stance as to the truth of the proposition – and, in some cases, to indicate a degree of uncertainty not nuanced by corresponding French language forms. Variation in usage is related to intensity of language contact at the levels of the community and of the individual.