The Routledge Handbook of Arabic and Identity

<p><i>The Routledge Handbook of Arabic and Identity </i>offers a comprehensive and up-to-date account of studies that relate the Arabic language in its entirety to identity. This handbook offers new trajectories in understanding language and identity more generally and Arabic and identity in particular.</p><p>Split into three parts, covering ‘Identity and Variation’, ‘Identity and Politics’ and ‘Identity Globalisation and Diversity’, it is the first of its kind to offer such a perspective on identity, linking the social world to identity construction and including issues pertaining to our current political and social context, including Arabic in the diaspora, Arabic as a minority language, pidgin and creoles, Arabic in the global age, Arabic and new media, Arabic and political discourse.</p><p>Scholars and students will find essential theories and methods that relate language to identity in this handbook. It is particularly of interest to scholars and students whose work is related to the Arab world, political science, modern political thought, Islam and social sciences including: general linguistics, sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, anthropological linguistics, anthropology, political science, sociology, psychology, literature media studies and Islamic studies.</p> <p><strong>Table of Contents</strong></p><p>Notes on the Contributors</p><p>List of Figures</p><p>List of Tables</p><p>Acknowledgements</p><p>Introduction and Overview</p><p>Introduction: The Arabic Language and Identity</p><p>Keith Walters</p><p><strong>Part I - Identity and Variation</strong></p><p>1. From<i> Rajjal</i> to <i>Rayyal</i>: Ideologies and shift among young Bedouins in Qatar </p><p>Rizwan Ahmad and Heba Al-Kababji</p><p>2. The emergence of a new national linguistic variety in Saudi Arabia: A perceptual dialectology account </p><ol> <p>Yousef Al-Rojaie</p> </ol><p>3. Identity and/or acts of identity in light of discourse markers in spoken Arabic </p><p>Abdelaadim Bidaoui</p><p>4. The expression of rural and urban identities in Arabic </p><ol> <p>Ahmed Ech-Charfi</p> </ol><p>5. Optional <i>You</i>​ and the invocation of shared identity in Levantine Arabic </p><ol> <p>Youssef Haddad</p> </ol><p>6. Saudi folks’ attitudes and Pprceptions toward accent switches: The /k/ reflexes across dialects </p><ol> <p>Manal Ismail </p> </ol><p>7. Language and identity in post-Revolution Tunisia between authenticity and commodification </p><ol> <p>Lotfi Sayahi</p> <p> </p> </ol><p>8. Attitudes to language in the Arab World </p><ol> <p>Nadia Shalaby</p> <b> </b><p> </p> <p>Part II - Identity and Politics</p> </ol><p>9. Arabic language ideologies: Diglossia </p><ol> <p>Ashraf Abdelhay and Yasir Suleiman </p> </ol><p>10. Egyptian identities at times of crisis </p><ol> <p>Amira Agameya</p> </ol><p>11. Pan-Arab identity in the post-Arab-Spring Era </p><ol> <p>Abdulkafi Albirini</p> </ol><p>12. Arabic and identity in (the conflict-ridden reality in) Israel </p><ol> <p>Muhammad Amara</p> </ol><p>13. The discursive construction of Jordanian identity in online discourse </p><ol> <p>Muhammad Badarneh</p> </ol><p>14. Erasing Arabic as an entrance ticket to Israeli society: On orientalism, militarism and the Mizrahi option in Israel/Palestine </p><ol> <p>Yonatan Mendel</p> <b> </b><p>Part III - Identity Globalisation and Diversity</p> </ol><p>15. Language and identity construction in the Arabian Gulf: Challenges faced in a globalized world </p><ol> <p>Ahmad Al-Issa and Laila S. Dahan</p> </ol><p>16. Arabic(s) in diaspora: Speakers, usages and contacts </p><ol> <p>Alexandrine Barontini and Lauren Wagner</p> </ol><p>17. Complex identities: Arabic in the diaspora </p><p>Luca D'Anna & Chiara Amoruso</p><p><strong>Index</strong></p>