Revisiting levels of contemporary Arabic in Egypt

• Titel: Revisiting levels of contemporary Arabic in Egypt
• Titelzusatz: essays on Arabic varieties in memory of El-Said Badawi
• Mitwirkende: Taha, Zeinab A. [HerausgeberIn]
• Gefeierte Person: Badawī, as-Saʿīd Muḥammad [GefeierteR]
• Verf.angabe: edited by Zeinab A. Taha
• Verlagsort: Cairo ; New York
• Verlag: The American University in Cairo Press
• E-Jahr: 2020
• Jahr: [2020]
• Umfang: xxviii, 298 Seiten
• Format: 24 cm
• Fussnoten: Includes bibliographical references
• ISBN: 978-977-416-966-3
• ISBN: 977-416-966-2
• Schlagwörter: (p)Badawī, as-Saʿīd Muḥammad / (g)Ägypten / (s)Arabisch / (s)Sprachvariante
• Dokumenttyp: Festschrift
• Dokumenttyp: Aufsatzsammlung
• Sprache: eng
• Sach-SW: Arabic language
• Sach-SW: Egypt
• K10plus-PPN: 170211967X

Abstract

El-Said Badawi’s seminal Mustawayat al-‘arabiya al-mu‘asira fi Misr (Levels of Contemporary Arabic in Egypt) was first published in Arabic in 1973. Its theory of interrelated language levels that are ever-changing along a sociolinguistic continuum inspired a generation of Arabists and Arabic-language educators to re-examine Arabic varieties from a wide range of perspectives, transforming the way scholars carried out research on language variation, lexicography, and teaching Arabic as a foreign language. Since that time, Arabic has witnessed major changes in the way its spoken and written forms are practiced, but informed, scholarly publications on the current reality of the linguistic landscape have been few and far between. This collective study, with contributions from renowned scholars of Arabic applied linguistics, draws on empirical data to bring together original new research on spoken and written language varieties in Egypt today.