Arabic and the Media

Biographical note Readership Table of contents

Publication Type:

Book

Pages, Illustrations:

vi, 310 pp.

Imprint:

BRILL

Language:

English

Biographical note

Reem Bassiouney is assistant professor of Arabic language and linguistics at Georgetown University. She has published on topics in Arabic linguistics, including code-switching, language and gender, and language policies in the Arab world.

Readership

Linguists, especially sociolinguists with an interest in Arabic; all those engaged in research on media language, language and gender/ identity, media studies, and on Arabic language acquisition.

CONTENTS
Introduction ........................................................................................ 1
PART ONE
NEWSPAPER LANGUAGE
The Evolution and Role of Newspapers ......................................... 13
Jean Aitchison
Cases of Written Code-Switching in Egyptian Opposition
Newspapers ..................................................................................... 23
Zeinab Ibrahim
Communities of Use in Arabic Newspaper Language:
The Meaning of the Country Effect ........................................... 47
Dilworth Parkinson
PART TWO
ARABIC VARIATION AND THE MEDIA
Arabic Oral Media and Corpus Linguistics: A First
Methodological Outline ................................................................ 63
Marc Van-Mol
Patterns and Predictions for Code-Switching with Arabic ......... 81
Carol Myers-Scotton
Identity and Code-Choice in the Speech of Educated Women
and Men in Egypt: Evidence from Talk Shows ........................ 97
Reem Bassiouney
Ḥāl id-Dunyā: An Arabic News Bulletin in Colloquial
(ʿĀmmiyya) ..................................................................................... 123
Madiha Doss
Performance, Language and Power: Nasrallah’s Rhetoric and
Mediated Charisma in the Context of the 2006 July War ...... 141
Dina Matar
Pidginisation in the Eastern Region of Saudi Arabia:
Media Presentation ........................................................................ 159
Munira Al-Azraqi
Internet Bulletin Boards in Saudi Arabia: Analogues of Change
and Resistance ................................................................................ 175
Nadav Samin
Linguistic Varieties in Twenty First Century Arabic Novels:
An Applied Study .......................................................................... 201
Soha Abboud-Haggar
PART THREE
APPLICATIONS: APPROACHING MEDIA IN THE
CLASSROOM
Media Arabic as a Regional Standard ............................................ 219
Karin Christina Ryding
A Framework for Teaching Vocabulary Through Printed Media 229
Raghda El-Essawy
The Place of Media in the Arabic Curriculum ............................. 253
Mahmoud Abdalla
List of Contributors ........................................................................... 291
Index .................................................................................................... 297

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