Revisiting Levels of Contemporary Arabic in Egypt
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contemporary Arabic
Devin J. Stewart
El-Said Badawi
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Gunvor Mejdell
Hanadi Tawwakol
Karin Christina Ryding
Kees Versteegh
Levels of Contemporary Arabic in Egypt
Lisa White
Manfred Woidich
Margaret Larkin
Michael Carter
Mona Farrag Attwa
Mona Kamel Hassan
Muhammad Abdel Haleem
Munther Younes
Mustafa Mughazy
Shahira Yacout
teaching Arabic
Waheed Sami
Willem Stoetzer
Zeinab A. Taha
Zeinab Taha
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- ISBN 9789774169663
- Weight: 598g
- Dimensions: 150 x 230mm
- Publication Date: 20 Feb 2020
- Publisher: The American University in Cairo Press
- Publication City/Country: EG
- Product Form: Hardback
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El-Said Badawi’s seminal 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.
Zeinab A. Taha is an associate professor of Arabic language and linguistics at the American University in Cairo, Egypt. She received her PhD from Georgetown University in 1995. She has been working in the field of teaching Arabic as a foreign language (TAFL) for over thirty years at universities in the United States and Europe and at the Arabic Language Institute of the American University in Cairo, where she assumed the position of director in addition to being co-director of the Center for Arabic Studies Abroad (CASA). She has been teaching in the MA TAFL program since 2005. Her publications are in the field of applied and theoretical linguistics, especially on grammatical theory and language variation.
