List of Tables

List of Figures

List of Maps

List of Contributors

Preface

INTRODUCTION

Sandhya Rao Mehta

PART 1: LINGUISTIC LANDSCAPES

Persia and Oman: A Historical and Linguistic Intersection

Roberta Morano

Landscaping in Moroccan Arabic: Practices, Ideologies and Inertias

Adil Moustaoui

Arabic in Michigan: An American Linguistic Landscape

Camelia Suleiman

Translanguaging in Gulf Higher Education

Sarah Hopkyns

Linguistic and Conceptual Challenges of Public Opinion Surveys in the Arab Gulf States

Russell Lucas

PART II: UNPACKING IDENTITIES

A Place to Belong: The Social Construction of Badu identity in Harūb, Saudi Arabia

Julie Lowry

Intersecting Scapes, Global Flows, and New Identity Options: Female Qatari Students’ Informal Learning of Turkish Language

Sarah Hillman

Arab Influencers and Social Media: A Sociolinguistic Study of a New Culture

Mai Zaki and Meis Al-Kaisi

Multilingualism in Lebanon: Code-switching as a Cultural Representation

Lubna Bassam

Perceptions towards Codeswitching and Identity in the Egyptian Context

Nadia A. Shalaby

PART III: ARABIC IN MIGRANT COMMUNITIES

Dialect Variation among Omani Migrants in Muscat: The Construction of Social Identity through Style Shifting

Suaad Ambu-Saidi

Identity Suppression as a Coping Strategy: The Case of Socotri Africans

Eleonora Esposito and Sarali Gintsburg

The Role of Education and Dialect Contact in the Realization of DHAA & THAA in a Community of Palestinian Refugees in Syria

Ourooba Shetewi

Family Language Policy between Ideology and Practice: A Domain-based Exploration of Arabic as a Heritage Language in the USA

Reda Mohammed

The Linguistics of Ḥaḍramī Arabic in the Speech of Ḥaḍramī-descent Community of Indonesia

Abdullah Al Saqqaf

Index

About the Author

Fathiya Al Rashdi is Assistant Professor in Sociolinguistics and Discourse Analysis, Sultan Qaboos University, Oman, and Editorial Board Member of Discourse, Context and Media .

Sandhya Rao Mehta is Associate Professor of Global Literature, Sultan Qaboos University, Oman, and Editor of three critical anthologies, including Language Studies: Stretching the Boundaries and Language and Literature in a Glocal World.

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