The Politics of Written Language in the Arab World : : Writing Change / / Jacob Høigilt and Gunvor Mejdell.

• Superior document: Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics Series ; Volume 90
• VerfasserIn: Høigilt, Jacob,; Mejdell, Gunvor,
• TeilnehmendeR: Mejdell, Gunvor,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands : : Koninklijke Brill nv,, [2017]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Edition: First edition.
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in Semitic languages and linguistics ; Volume 90.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.
• Other title: Preliminary Material --; Introduction /; A Language for the People?: Quantitative Indicators of Written dārija and ͑āmmiyya in Cairo and Rabat /; Diglossia as Ideology /; Changing Norms, Concepts and Practices of Written Arabic: A ‘Long Distance’ Perspective /; Contemporary dārija Writings in Morocco: Ideology and Practices /; Morocco: An Informal Passage to Literacy in dārija (Moroccan Arabic) /; Adab sākhir (Satirical Literature) and the Use of Egyptian Vernacular /; Dialect with an Attitude: Language and Criticism in New Egyptian Print Media /; Writing Oral and Literary Culture: The Case of the Contemporary Moroccan zajal /; The Politics of Pro-͑āmmiyya Language Ideology in Egypt /; Moralizing Stances Discursive Play and Ideologies of Language and Gender in Moroccan Digital Discourse /; The Language of Online Activism: A Case from Kuwait /; The Oralization of Writing: Argumentation, Profanity and Literacy in Cyberspace /; Index.
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 9004346171
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Jacob Høigilt and Gunvor Mejdell.

The Politics of Written Language in the Arab World connects the fascinating field of contemporary written Arabic with the central sociolinguistic notions of language ideology and diglossia. Focusing on Egypt and Morocco, the authors combine large-scale survey data on language attitudes with in-depth analyses of actual language usage and explicit (and implicit) language ideology. They show that writing practices as well as language attitudes in Egypt and Morocco are far more receptive to vernacular forms than has been assumed. The individual chapters cover a wide variety of media, from books and magazines to blogs and Tweets. A central theme running through the contributions is the social and political function of “doing informality” in a changing public sphere steadily more permeated by written Arabic in a number of media. The e-book version of this publication is available in Open Access .