Between accomodation and resistance

Upper Egyptian migrants in Cairo

Dados Bibliográficos

ID3987177
AutoresCatherine Miller (0000-0002-0352-3777, autor correspondente)
Ano2005
Volume43
Fascículo5
Data de publicação2005-01-19
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoLinguistics (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0024-3949 • E-ISSN: 1613-396X
EditoraWalter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1515/ling.2005.43.5.903
OpenAlexW2084108845
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas22

This article analyzes processes of dialectal accommodation among Upper Egyptian migrants in Cairo-Egypt. Rural and provincial migration have played an important role in the demographic growth of the capital from the mid-nineteenth century up to the 1970s. Although migration is today receding, the social and cultural integration of the migrants is far from being completed, and it has raised a number of socioeconomic challenges. Due to underdevelopment, poverty, and religious traditionalism, Upper Egypt is often described as a problematic area, and this perception reflects on the relationship between Cairene and Upper Egyptian migrants. Cairene Arabic and Upper Egyptian varieties are linguistically quite distinct and they do not have the same status, Cairene being a national prestige variety. Based on data recorded among seven adult speakers, this article analyzes the realization of 21 features, taking into account not only Cairo and Upper Egyptian variants but also the influence of fus̥ḥā (Classical Arabic). It shows that the degree of accommodation to Cairo Arabic among the first migrant generation varies according to type of linguistic features (phonological, morphological, lexical), as well as type of interaction/topics and individual personal profile

Accommodation · Arabic · Geography · Linguistics · Perception · Political science · Population · Poverty · Prestige · Resistance (ecology) · Sociocultural evolution · Socioeconomic status · Sociology · Variety (cybernetics) · Anthropology · Demography · Gender Studies · Language, Linguistics, Cultural Analysis · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Multilingual Education and Policy · Psychology