Arabic as a Minority Language (Contributions to the Sociology of Language [CSL], 83)

CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE SOCIOLOGY OF LANGUAGE brings to students, researchers and practitioners in all of the social and language-related sciences carefully selected book-length publications dealing with sociolinguistic theory, methods, findings and applications. It approaches the study of language in society in its broadest sense, as a truly international and interdisciplinary field in which various approaches, theoretical and empirical, supplement and complement each other. The series invites the attention of linguists, language teachers of all interests, sociologists, political scientists, anthropologists, historians etc. to the development of the sociology of language. Addresses of contributors Abbreviations Introduction Historical perspectives The Arabic language among the Mozarabs of Toledo during the 12th and 13 th centuries Arabic as a tool for expressing Jewish and Romani ethnic identity. (a prolegomenon to a typology of Arabic in non- Arabic speaking communities) The Arabic linguistic and cultural tradition in Daghestan: an historical overview Arabic ethnic minorities Modelling intrasentential codeswitching: a comparative study of Algerian/French in Algeria and Moroccan/Dutch in the Netherlands The Arabic speech of Bactria (Afghanistan) Arabic as a minority language in Israel Making a fish of a friend. Waris: the secret language of Arab koranic school students in Borno Loanwords in Nigerian Arabic: a quantitative approach Cross-ethnic and non-Arab perspectives The Arabic dialects in the Turkish province of Hatay and the Aramaic dialects in the Syrian mountains of Qalamûn: two minority languages compared Loanwords in Algerian Berber Moroccan: a language in emergence Language legitimization: Arabic in multiethnic contexts Index of languages and varieties of Arabic Index of places Index of subjects

CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE SOCIOLOGY OF LANGUAGE brings to students, researchers and practitioners in all of the social and language-related sciences carefully selected book-length publications dealing with sociolinguistic theory, methods, findings and applications.

It approaches the study of language in society in its broadest sense, as a truly international and interdisciplinary field in which various approaches, theoretical and empirical, supplement and complement each other.

The series invites the attention of linguists, language teachers of all interests, sociologists, political scientists, anthropologists, historians etc. to the development of the sociology of language.

Linguists from Europe, Nigeria, and Israel explore distinctive traits of Arabic when and where it is not the dominant language. Among the topics they discuss are the Arabic language among the Mozarabs of Toledo during the 12th and 13th centuries, Algerian and French in Algeria compared to Moroccan and Dutch in the Netherlands, the Arabic dialects in the Turkish province of Hatay compared to the Aramaic dialects in the Syrian mountains of Qalamun, Moroccan as an emerging language, a quantitative approach to loanwords in Nigerian Arabic, the Arabic speech of Bactria in Afghanistan, and Arabic as a tool for expressing Jewish and Romani ethnic identity. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR The Contributions to the Sociology of Language series features publications dealing with sociolinguistic theory, methods, findings and applications. It addresses the study of language in society in its broadest sense, as a truly international and interdisciplinary field in which various approaches - theoretical and empirical - supplement and complement each other. The series invites the attention of scholars interested in language in society from a broad range of disciplines - anthropology, education, history, linguistics, political science, and sociology. To discuss your book idea or submit a proposal, please contact Natalie Fecher. Centring on the status of Arabic as a minority language, this book focuses attention on the existence of many varieties of Arabic outside of the Arabic world.