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Arabic and the Media : Linguistic Analyses and Applications.
Title:
Arabic and the Media : Linguistic Analyses and Applications.
Author:
Bassiouney, Reem.
ISBN:
9789004187610
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (309 pages)
Series:
Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics ; v.57

Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics
Contents:
Contents -- Introduction -- Part One Newspaper Language -- The Evolution and Role of Newspapers -- Cases of Written Code-Switching in Egyptian Opposition Newspapers -- Communities of Use in Arabic Newspaper Language: The Meaning of the Country Effect -- Part Two Arabic Variation and the Media -- Arabic Oral Media and Corpus Linguistics: A First Methodological Outline -- Patterns and Predictions for Code-Switching with Arabic -- Identity and Code-Choice in the Speech of Educated Women and Men in Egypt: Evidence from Talk Shows -- Ḥāl id-Dunyā: An Arabic News Bulletin in Colloquial ('Āmmiyya) -- Performance, Language and Power: Nasrallah's Rhetoric and Mediated Charisma in the Context of the 2006 July War -- Pidginisation in the Eastern Region of Saudi Arabia: Media Presentation -- Internet Bulletin Boards in Saudi Arabia: Analogues of Change and Resistance -- Linguistic Varieties in Twenty-First Century Arabic Novels: An Applied Study -- Part Three Applications: Approaching Media in the Classroom -- Media Arabic as a Regional Standard -- A Framework for Teaching Vocabulary Through Printed Media -- The Place of Media in the Arabic Curriculum -- List of Contributors -- Index.
Abstract:
This volume is the first of its kind to deal with the relation between Arabic and the media. It focuses on close analyses of examples of media Arabic (code-switching, language variation, orthography and constructions of identity), and also offers approaches to the use of media for teaching Arabic.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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