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A leading-edge study of Arabic varieties and how they are used, written by distinguished scholars in the field
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.
Thematically, Revisiting Levels of Contemporary Arabic in Egypt explores three broad but interconnected areas: Arabic varieties in context, challenges to Badawi’s Levels model, and the pedagogical implications of varying levels in teaching Arabic as a foreign language. It not only discusses the current applicability of Badawi’s model to contexts such as contemporary Egyptian newspapers and Facebook, but looks at empirical data related to colloquial varieties in Egypt and elsewhere, the role of context in their current use, and the approaches to documenting and deriving colloquial lexicons. It also examines linguistic styles in different genres and contexts and for different audiences.
Contributors:
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.
Thematically, Revisiting Levels of Contemporary Arabic in Egypt explores three broad but interconnected areas: Arabic varieties in context, challenges to Badawi’s Levels model, and the pedagogical implications of varying levels in teaching Arabic as a foreign language. It not only discusses the current applicability of Badawi’s model to contexts such as contemporary Egyptian newspapers and Facebook, but looks at empirical data related to colloquial varieties in Egypt and elsewhere, the role of context in their current use, and the approaches to documenting and deriving colloquial lexicons. It also examines linguistic styles in different genres and contexts and for different audiences.
Contributors:
- Muhammad Abdel Haleem, University of London, England
- Mona Farrag Attwa, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO
- Michael G. Carter, University of Oslo, Norway
- Mona Kamel Hassan, The American University in Cairo, Egypt
- Margaret Larkin, University of California, Berkeley, CA
- Gunvor Mejdell, University of Oslo, Norway
- Mustafa Mughazy, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI
- Karin Christina Ryding, Georgetown University, Washington, DC
- Waheed Samy, The American University in Cairo, Egypt; University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
- Devin J. Stewart, Emory University, Atlanta, GA
- Willem Stoetzer, Leiden University, Netherlands
- Zeinab A. Taha, The American University in Cairo, Egypt
- Hanady Tawwakol, The American University in Cairo, Egypt
- Kees Versteegh, Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands
- Lisa J. White, The American University in Cairo, Egypt
- Manfred Woidich, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Shahira Yacout, The American University in Cairo, Egypt
- Munther Younes, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Price: $69.95
Pages: 298
Publisher: The American University in Cairo Press
Imprint: The American University in Cairo Press
Publication Date:
03 March 2020
Trim Size: 9.00 X 6.00 in
ISBN: 9789774169663
Format: Hardcover
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Transcription
Foreword
Badawi’s Levels: The Benefit of a Second Perusal
Willem Stoetzer
Introduction
The Continuum Model in a Changing Sociolinguistic Reality
Zeinab A. Taha
Arabic Levels in Varying Contexts
1. The Dialect of Farafra Oasis in the Western Desert of Egypt
Manfred Woidich
2. Time and Tense in Basic Varieties of Arabic
Kees Versteegh
3. LM YBLƔ MLK MBLƔ: The Namara Inscription, Line 4 Revisited
Michael G. Carter
4. The Crucial Role of Context in Translating the Qur’an
Muhammad Abdel Haleem
5. The Levels of Arabic: Linguistic Choice and Narrational Innovation in Yusuf Idris’s “ʔArxaṣ Layālī”
Margaret Larkin
Challenges to the Levels Model
6. Entangled Pyramids and Rainbows: On Challenging the Divide in a Written Mixed Text
Gunvor Mejdell
7. The B-Prefix as a Tense Marker in ʕĀmmiyyat al-Muθaqqafīn
Hanadi Tawwakol
8. ʕĀmmiyyat al-Muθaqqafīn: Conceptualization and Metaphor in Mustawayāt al-ʕArabiyya al-Muʕāṣira
Karin Christina Ryding
9. Are Badawi’s Levels of Contemporary Arabic Reflected in Facebook?
Shahira Yacout
The Levels and Teaching of AFL
10. Solving the Arabic Language Dilemma: First Steps
Munther Younes
11. A Contribution to the Lexicography of Egyptian Arabic (II)
Mustafa Mughazy and Devin J. Stewart
12. Arabic Embodied: A Morphological Romp through a Different ‘Body Language’
Lisa J. White
13. Discourse Markers: Essential Tools in Spoken Arabic Diglossic Contexts
Mona Kamel Hassan
14. Communicative Proficiency: Teacher and Learner Needs for a Diglossic Situation
Waheed Samy
15. Arabizi: A Writing Variety Worth Learning?
Mona Farrag Attwa
Bibliography
Transcription
Foreword
Badawi’s Levels: The Benefit of a Second Perusal
Willem Stoetzer
Introduction
The Continuum Model in a Changing Sociolinguistic Reality
Zeinab A. Taha
Arabic Levels in Varying Contexts
1. The Dialect of Farafra Oasis in the Western Desert of Egypt
Manfred Woidich
2. Time and Tense in Basic Varieties of Arabic
Kees Versteegh
3. LM YBLƔ MLK MBLƔ: The Namara Inscription, Line 4 Revisited
Michael G. Carter
4. The Crucial Role of Context in Translating the Qur’an
Muhammad Abdel Haleem
5. The Levels of Arabic: Linguistic Choice and Narrational Innovation in Yusuf Idris’s “ʔArxaṣ Layālī”
Margaret Larkin
Challenges to the Levels Model
6. Entangled Pyramids and Rainbows: On Challenging the Divide in a Written Mixed Text
Gunvor Mejdell
7. The B-Prefix as a Tense Marker in ʕĀmmiyyat al-Muθaqqafīn
Hanadi Tawwakol
8. ʕĀmmiyyat al-Muθaqqafīn: Conceptualization and Metaphor in Mustawayāt al-ʕArabiyya al-Muʕāṣira
Karin Christina Ryding
9. Are Badawi’s Levels of Contemporary Arabic Reflected in Facebook?
Shahira Yacout
The Levels and Teaching of AFL
10. Solving the Arabic Language Dilemma: First Steps
Munther Younes
11. A Contribution to the Lexicography of Egyptian Arabic (II)
Mustafa Mughazy and Devin J. Stewart
12. Arabic Embodied: A Morphological Romp through a Different ‘Body Language’
Lisa J. White
13. Discourse Markers: Essential Tools in Spoken Arabic Diglossic Contexts
Mona Kamel Hassan
14. Communicative Proficiency: Teacher and Learner Needs for a Diglossic Situation
Waheed Samy
15. Arabizi: A Writing Variety Worth Learning?
Mona Farrag Attwa
Bibliography