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Contents: 1. Nationalism and the Arabic Language: A Historical Overview / Yasir Suleiman -- 2. Algeria: Language, Nation and State / Mike Holt -- 3.Language Loyalty: The Case of Algerian Immigrants' Children in France /Farida Abu-Haidar -- 4. Discriminating Texts: Orthographic Marking and Social Differentiation in the Court Records of Ottoman Damascus / NajwaAl-Qattan -- 5. 'What's in a Name?': Women in Egyptian / Mushira Eid --6. Generations of Change in Name-Giving / Sheena Gardner -- 7. Talkingto Machines in Arabic / Elinor Saiegh -- 8. The Metalinguistic Joke : Sociolinguistic Dimensions of An Arab Folk Genre / Ibrahim Muhawi -- 9.Speaking Fusha in Cairo: The Role of the Ending Vowels / Dilworth Parkinson -- 10. Attitudinal Reactions to Language Change in an UrbanSetting / Mohamed Benrabah -- 11. The Situation of Arabic in Israel /Bernard Spolsky -- 12. On the Definition of Dialect with reference to Yemeni Dialects of Arabic / Janet Watson. |
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