Rouchdy - Language Contact and Language Conflict in Arabic.

Language Contact and
Language Conflict in Arabic

Routledge Arabic Linguistics Series

General Editor: Clive Holes (University of Oxford)

Editors:
El-Sa'id Badawi (American University in Cairo)
Adrian Gully (University of Exeter)
Yasir Suleiman (University of Edinburgh)
Keith Walters (University of Texas)

The Curzon Arabic Linguistics Series publishes high quality, academically rigorous research on Arabic linguistics to two main readerships: non-Arabist general linguists with an interest in Arabic, and students and researchers already in the field of Arabic language and linguistics. Both synchronic and diachronic studies of Arabic are welcome which aid our understanding of the historical evolution and the present state of Arabic, whether dialectal or standard. Works written from a sociolinguistic (e.g. language variation), socio-historical (e.g. language history), sociological (e.g. language planning), or psycholinguistic (e.g. language acquisition) perspective are welcome, as are studies of Arabic stylistics, pragmatics, and discourse analysis. Descriptive dialectological works also fall within the scope of the Series, as do works which focus on the evolution of mediaeval Arabic linguistic thought. Proposals or scripts for the Series will be welcomed by the General Editor.

MEDIEVAL ISLAMIC PRAGMATICS
Sunni Legal Theorists' Model of Textual Communication
Mohamed Mohamed Yunis Ali

JEWISH AND MUSLIM DIALECTS OF MOROCCAN ARABIC
Jeffrey Heath

LANGUAGE CONTACT AND LANGUAGE CONFLICT IN ARABIC
Variations on a Sociolinguistic Theme
Edited by Aleya Rouchdy

Language Contact and
Language Conflict in Arabic

Variations on a Sociolinguistic Theme

Edited by
Aleya Rouchdy

First Published in 2002
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Editorial Matter 2002 Aleya Rouchdy

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ISBN10: 0700713794 (hbk)
ISBN10: 0415567793 (pbk)

ISBN13: 9780700713790 (hbk)
ISBN13: 9780415567794 (hbk)

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This book is dedicated to my brother
Hatem Roushdy

(19411999)

And ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until
the hour of separation.

Khalil Gibran, The Prophet