Mejdell (Arabic language and culture, U. of Oslo) presents findings from a study of spoken academic discourse in Egypt, specifically variations in the linguistic choices made by several highly educate
Linguists and scholars of particular languages in Europe and the Middle East reflect on their research through the lens of high and low relationships of varieties in the language community, of differe
The Politics of Written Language in the Arab World asks how the central sociolinguistic notions of language ideology and diglossia are affected by the rapidly increasing amount of writing in the Arabi
