The Routledge Handbook of Arabic Sociolinguistics

The Routledge Handbook of Arabic Sociolinguistics comprises 22 chapters encompassing various aspects in the study of Arabic dialects within their sociolinguistic context.

Enam Al-Wer is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Essex. Uri Horesh is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow in Linguistics at the University of Essex.

1. Arabic sociolinguistics: principles and epistemology Part 1: Historical aspects 2. The Classification of Arabic and sociolinguistic variation in the pre-Islamic period 3. Variation in Old Arabic Part 2: Dimensions of variation 4. Regional Variation 5. Confessional Varieties 6. Style and sociolinguistics 7. Traditional dialects 8. Dialect contact and urban dialects 9. Peripheral varieties 10. Arabic-based pidgins and creoles Part 3: Levels of analysis 11. Phonological and morphological variation 12. Prosodic variation 13. Syntactic Variation Part 4: Aspects of sociolinguistics in the Maghreb 14. Variation and koinéization in the Maghreb 15. Morphosyntactic variation: focus on Maltese and other western varieties 16. Diglossia and the normalization of the vernacular: focus on Tunisia Part 5: Language and ideology 17. Form and ideology revisited 18. Ideologies in the manifestations in language contact situations: the case of Arabic-Hebrew in Palestine Part 6: Applied sociolinguistics 19. Sociolinguistics and the Teaching of Arabic as a Foreign Language 20. From an MSA-only to a fully integrated Arabic foreign language curriculum 21. Diglossia and language development 22. Language Analysis for Determination of Origin (LADO) in Arabic-dominant settings.