In this study, diglossia in Bengali has been explored. Charles Ferguson (1959), in the article “Diglossia,” brought into focus a phenomenon that was revolutionary in the field of sociolinguistics. Diglossia is the functional coexistence of two linguistic varieties, each with its…
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Morpho-syntactic features of Modern Standard Arabic mix intricately with those of Egyptian Colloquial Arabic in ordinary speech. I study the lexical, phonological and syntactic features of verb phrase morphemes and constituents in different tenses, aspects, moods. A corpus of ov…
Diglossia is a term used to describe a linguistic situation where two language varieties coexist. One is a high variety and is used in formal contexts and as the language of instruction. The other is a low variety and is utilized in informal situations and as the native language…
This study examined the language situation in the religious discourse in Egypt. It investigated the switch from Classical Arabic to Egyptian Arabic in the religious domain in one of the most renowned preachers in Egypt, Amr Khaled. In order to investigate the phenomenon, I chose…
Literature pertaining to English-speaking L2 learners of Arabic on study abroad programs in the Arabic-speaking world is almost nonexistent. This may be due to the fact that not even one out of a hundred American students chooses to study abroad in the Arabic-speaking world each…
This dissertation elucidates the language of the community of medieval Toledo, traditionally known as Mozarabic, taking into account both the sociolinguistic factors that contributed to language formation, and the phonological development of the language in comparative perspecti…
The Tunisian speech community is characterized by both diglossia and bilingualism. The existence of these two sociolinguistic phenomena has led to the emergence of intermediate codes, Educated Tunisian Arabic and Franco-Arabe, a mixture of French and Tunisian Arabic. The focus o…
