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The present volume provides an overview of current trends in the study of language contact involving Arabic. By drawing on the social factors that have converged to create different contact situations, it explores both contact-induced change in Arabic and language change through contact with Arabic. The volume brings together leading scholars who address a variety of topics related to contact-induced change, the emergence of contact languages, codeswitching, as well as language ideologies in contact situations. It offers insights from different theoretical approaches in connection with research fields such as descriptive and historical linguistics, sociolinguistics, ethnolinguistics, and language acquisition. It provides the general linguistic public with an updated, cutting edge overview and appreciation of themes and problems in Arabic linguistics and sociolinguists alike.

Intro -- Arabic in Contact -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Arabic in contact, now and then -- 1. Contact linguistics and Arabic in contact -- 2. In and from Arabic: Grammar in context -- 3. In and from Arabic: Dealing with words -- 4. Deep contact: Arabic-based contact languages -- 5. Back to the speaker: Codeswitching and language ideologies -- 6. Envoy -- References -- Section 1. In and from Arabic: Grammar in context -- The Arabic component in Domari -- 1. Background -- 2. The Arabic component in northern Domari -- 2.1 Matter replication -- 2.2 Pattern replication -- 3. Conclusion -- List of abbreviations -- References -- Syntactic outcomes of contact in Sason Arabic -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Sason Arabic -- 2.1 Sason morphology -- 3. Contact-induced morphosyntactic changes -- 3.1 Indefiniteness marking -- 3.2 Light verb constructions -- 3.3 Periphrastic causative -- 3.4 Negation and copula in Sason -- 4. Conclusion -- List of abbreviations -- References -- Arabic-Berber-Songhay contact and the grammaticalisation of 'thing' -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The pre-contact functions of Arabic šayʔ and Berber *ḱăra -- 2.1 Arabic -- 2.2 Berber -- 3. From indefinite pronoun to indefinite quantifier -- 3.1 Arabic -- 3.2 Berber -- 4. From indefinite pronoun to indefinite adverb -- 5. From indefinite adverb to polar interrogative marker -- 5.1 Arabic -- 5.2 Berber -- 6. Calquing in Korandje -- 6.1 The pre-contact situation -- 6.2 From indefinite pronoun to indefinite quantifier -- 6.3 From indefinite pronoun to indefinite adverb -- 7. Conclusion -- References -- Arabic and Berber in contact: Arabic in a minority situation in Al Hoceima region -- 1. Introduction: A border region -- 2. Beni Iṭṭeft "Revisited" … -- 2. Beni Iṭṭeft "Revisited" … -- 3. Method -- A rare situation: Arabic as a minority language

Reflects on the latest trends in the study of Arabic sociolinguistics New to this edition:A new chapter on Arabic critical sociolinguistics: the critical analysis of the field of sociolinguistics itself and its scholarly practicesExplains new theories such as language as a social construct, the relation between language and identity, stance, indexicality and translanguaging, with examples from areas not covered in the first editionDiscusses the political changes in the Arab world since 2011 and their impact on languageConsiders the role of new media in modifying theories and providing different kind of data for sociolinguistsThe second edition of Arabic Sociolinguistics offers an extended commentary on the important findings of new critical approaches to language and society in Arab-speaking countries. Following a recent wave of political upheavals in the Middle East, the book engages with latest academic works that relate language to power and conflict in the Arab world. In addition to thoroughly updated accounts of diglossia, code-switching, gender, language policy and language variation in the region, Reem Bassiouney discusses the most important recent development in the field - critical sociolinguistics - in a new dedicated chapter that challenges the tendency of applying Western linguistic methods and terms to superdiverse communities. By covering the key developments of linguistic theories and contexts with up-to-date examples to help explain the phenomena under discussion, this is the most comprehensive book on Arabic sociolinguistics today.Please note that Arabic Sociolinguistics is co-published by Georgetown University Press in the USA. If you in this area and are looking to buy a copy, or request a review or inspection copy, please direct orders and queries directly to them."

".... Introduces the language of newspapers, magazines, and Internet news sites to intermediate- and advanced-level students of Modern Standard Arabic. Using this coursebook, students will be able to master core vocabulary and structures typical of front-page news, recognize various methods of coverage, distinguish fact from opinion, detect bias, and read critically in Arabic. The book enables students to read extended texts with greater accuracy and speed by focusing on the relationships among meaning, linguistic form, and discourse markers. Activities include pre-reading discussions as well as extensive practice on vocabulary use in context, organizing information, skimming, scanning, critical reading, and analyzing content."--Jacket

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- User Guide -- Introduction -- 1. General -- 2. Analysis -- 3. Human Intelligence (HUMINT) -- 4. Operations -- 5. Counterintelligence (CI) -- 6. Signals Intelligence (SIGINT) -- 7. Acronyms -- Select Bibliography -- Index.

"This book is intended as a textbook and as a resource for research on variation and change in Arabic. The book was designed with a wide range of readers in mind, including students of Arabic linguistics, scholars in linguistics who may or may not know Arabic, and anyone who wishes to expand their knowledge about sociolinguistic theory and methodology as applied to Arabic data"--

Medieval Arabic Historiography is concerned with social contexts and narrative structures of pre-modern Islamic historiography written in Arabic in seventh and thirteenth-century Syria and Eygpt. Taking up recent theoretical reflections on historical writing in the European Middle Ages, this extraordinary study combines approaches drawn from social sciences and literary studies, with a particular focus on two well-known texts: Abu Shama's The Book of the Two Gardens, and Ibn Wasil's The Dissipater of Anxieties. These texts describe events during the life of the sultans Nur-al-Din and Salah al-Din, who are primarily known in modern times as the champions of the anti-Crusade movement. Hirschler shows that these two authors were active interpreters of their society and has considerable room for manoeuvre in both their social environment and the shaping of their texts. Through the use of a fresh and original theoretical approach to pre-modern Arabic historiography, Hirschler presents a new understanding of these texts which have before been relatively neglected, thus providing a significant contribution to the burgeoning field of historiographical studies.

During the nineteenth century and into the early twentieth century, more Europeans visited the Middle East than ever before, as tourists, archaeologists, pilgrims, settler-colonists and soldiers. These visitors engaged with the Arabic language to differing degrees. While some were serious scholars of Classical Arabic, in the Orientalist mould, many did not learn the language at all. Between these two extremes lies a neglected group of language learners who wanted to learn enough everyday colloquial Arabic to get by. The needs of these learners were met by popular language books, which boasted that they could provide an easy route to fluency in a difficult language.

Arabic Dialogues explores the motivations of Arabic learners and effectiveness of instructional materials, principally in Egypt and Palestine, by analysing a corpus of Arabic phrasebooks published in nine languages (English, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Yiddish, Hebrew, Russian) and in the territory of twenty-five modern countries. Beginning with Napoleon's Expédition d'Égypte (1798–1801), it moves through the periods of mass tourism and European colonialism in the Middle East, concluding with the Second World War. The book also considers how Arab intellectuals understood the project of teaching Arabic to foreigners, the remarkable history of Arabic-learning among Yiddish- and Hebrew-speaking immigrants in Palestine, and the networks of language learners, teachers and plagiarists who produced these phrasebooks.