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This book contains 17 studies by leading international scholars working on a wide range of topics in Arabic socio-linguistics, divided into four parts. The studies in Part 1 address questions of national language planning in a diglossic situation, with a particular focus on North Africa. Part 2 explores the relationship of identity and language choice in different Arabic-speaking communities living both within and outside the Arab World. Part 3 examines language choice in such diverse contexts as popular preaching, humour and Arab women's writing. Part 4 contains 5 papers in which variation

Based on findings of the multidisciplinary three-year TRANS-NET research project, this book examines the complex and multi-level processes of migrant transnationalism in four examples: India-United Kingdom, Morocco-France, Turkey-Germany and Estonia-Finland.

Preliminary Material /Gregory L. Thompson and Edwin M. Lamboy -- Chapter 1. What is Bilingualism? /Gregory L. Thompson and Edwin M. Lamboy -- Chapter 2. Bilingualism/Multilingualism in the Hispanic World /Gregory L. Thompson and Edwin M. Lamboy -- Chapter 3. Bilingualism in the United States /Gregory L. Thompson and Edwin M. Lamboy -- Appendices /Gregory L. Thompson and Edwin M. Lamboy -- About the Authors /Gregory L. Thompson and Edwin M. Lamboy -- Subject Index /Gregory L. Thompson and Edwin M. Lamboy.