Aspects of Language Variation in Arabic Political Speech-Making

by Nathalie Mazraani

Overview

This socio-linguistic study throws new light on variation and the defining of register in Arabic political discourse. The research is based on three dialects (Egyptian, Iraqi and Libyan) and on political speeches delivered by Gamal Abdunnasir, Saddam Hussein and Muammar Al Gadhdhafi.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780700706730
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	09/24/1997
Pages:	276
Product dimensions:	5.44(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

1 The sociolinguistic framework 1.1 Introduction 1.1.1 Defining Language 1.1.2 The speech community and social factors 1.1.3 Functions of language 1.1.4 Code-switching and code-mixing 1.2 Arabic and the Fergusonian dichotomy 1.2.1 Blanc and interdialectal studies 1.2.2 The emergence of Educated Spoken Arabic as a concept 1.2.3 Badawi and new sociolinguistic approaches 1.4 Objectives of this book 2 Methodology 3 Form and Function in the Egyptian data 4 Form and Function in the Iraqi data 5 Form and Function in the Libyan data 6 Forms and functions: shared tendencies in the data 7 The political speech as a textual genre