MARC Record from Library of Congress

LEADER: 02867cam a22003498a 4500
001 2007027019
003 DLC
005 20100216102435.0
008 070628s2008 nyu b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2007027019
020 $a9780415773119 (hardback)
020 $a0415773113 (hardback)
020 $a9780203933367 (ebook)
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040 $aDLC$cDLC$dDLC
050 00 $aPJ6709$b.A78 2008
082 00 $a492.7/7$222
245 00 $aArabic in the city :$bissues in dialect contact and language variation /$cedited by Catherine Miller ... [et al.].
260 $aNew York :$bRoutledge,$c2008.
263 $a0801
300 $ap. cm.
490 0 $aRoutledgecurzon Arabic linguistics series
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aArabic urban vernaculars : development and changes / Catherine Miller -- Migration, urbanization and language change. The (r)urbanisation of Mauritania : historical context and contemporary developments / Catherine Taine Cheikh -- The formation of the dialect of Amman : from chaos to order / Enam Al-Wer -- Urbanization and dialect change : the Arabic dialect of Tripoli (Libya) / Christophe Pereira -- Becoming Casablancan : Fessis in Casablanca as a case study / Atiqa Hachimi -- Two cases of Moroccan Arabic in the Diaspora / Angeles Vicente -- Urban vernaculars : convergence and divergence. Greetings in Beirut : social distribution and attitudes towards different formulae / Marie Aymee Germanos -- Linguistic levelling in San'ani Arabic as reflected in a popular radio serial / Janet Watson -- The urban and suburban modes : patterns of linguistic variation and change in Damascus / Hanadi Ismail -- Segmental and prosodic aspects of Ksar el Kebir's neo-urban variety / Mohamed Embarki -- The Use of Kashkasha/kaskasa and alternative means among educated urban Saudi speakers / Munira Al-Azraki -- Multilingualism, codeswitching and new urban cultures. Close encounters of a different kind : two types of insertion in Nigerian Arabic codeswitching / Jonathan Owens -- Development and linguistic change in Moroccan Arabic-French Codeswitching / Karima Ziamari -- The language of Cairos' young university students / Sherin Rizk -- Rap and rappers in Nouakchott, (Mauritania) / Aline Tauzin -- Uses and attitudes towards Hassaniyya language among Nouakchotts negro-Mauritanian population / Alassane Dia.
650 0 $aArabic language$xDialects.
650 0 $aArabic language$xVariation.
650 0 $aUrban dialects$zArab countries.
650 0 $aArabic language$xSocial aspects.
650 0 $aLanguages in contact$zArab countries.
700 1 $aMiller, Catherine,$d1955-
856 41 $3Table of contents only$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0721/2007027019.html
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0731/2007027019-d.html