Community, dialect and urbanization in the Arabic-speaking Middle East

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ID2769972
AuthorsClive Holes (University of Cambridge, corresponding author)
Year1995
Volume58
Issue2
Pages270-287
Publication date1995-06-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueBulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0041-977X • E-ISSN: 1474-0699
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0041977x00010764
OpenAlexW1985369726
LanguageEN
Citations received25
References cited17

The purpose of this paper is to explain how changes in the social structure of the countries of the Arabic-speaking Middle East are being reflected in new patterns of dialect use. The last 30 years have seen an enormously increased interest in Arabic as a living mode of everyday communication, reflected in many dialectological, typological and sociolinguistic studies. As a result, we now have a much clearer overall picture of the dialect geography of the eastern Arab world, and the beginnings of an understanding of the dynamics of language change. Inevitably, the focus of many studies has been geographically specific, so that the area-wide nexus between social change and linguistic change has not always been seen in a sufficiently broad context. By examining three case studies documented in the literature, I aim to point up similarities in the dynamics of change which are often obscured by distracting local particularities

Arabic · Context (archaeology) · Dynamics (music) · Economic geography · Focus (optics) · Geography · Linguistics · Middle East · Nexus (standard) · Political science · Social change · Sociology · Urbanization · Gender Studies in Language · History · Language, Linguistics, Cultural Analysis · Linguistic Variation and Morphology

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