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Bilingualism And Language Attitude In Melilla (Spain), Lotfi Sayahi, Miguel Àngel Montero Alonso
Bilingualism And Language Attitude In Melilla (Spain), Lotfi Sayahi, Miguel Àngel Montero Alonso
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El Español En Los Estados Unidos: Panorama De Estudios Sociolingüísticos, Lotfi Sayahi, Juanita Reyes, Cecily Corbett
El Español En Los Estados Unidos: Panorama De Estudios Sociolingüísticos, Lotfi Sayahi, Juanita Reyes, Cecily Corbett
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The aim of this paper is to present the principal areas of sociolinguistic research concerning Spanish spoken in the United States. In doing so, we focus on a variety of topics ranging from macro-sociolinguistic issues, such as the sociology of language, to micro-sociolinguistic features having more to do with language variation and change. In our discussion of bilingualism and sociology of language, we explore the situation faced by Spanish speakers in the United States, including discussions of language policies and bilingual education. We also examine cases of contact between various dialects of Spanish in the United States, and some variable …
España Ante El Mundo: Spain's Colonial Language Policies In North Africa, Lotfi Sayahi
España Ante El Mundo: Spain's Colonial Language Policies In North Africa, Lotfi Sayahi
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During its presence in Northern Morocco and the Western Sahara, Spain lauded its colonial policies, and relations with the native populations in general, as being more successful than those of the other colonial power present in the region, France. While it is true that France’s educational policies were narrowly aimed at forming acquiescent elites of the Maghrebi societies, Spain’s policies in turn were severely conditioned by a hyper-awareness of existing ethno-religious divisions, a product of the prominence of religion in the historical relations between Iberia and the Maghreb. In this essay, I discuss the differences in Spain’s educational policies between …
Current Perspectives On Tunisian Sociolinguistics, Lotfi Sayahi
Current Perspectives On Tunisian Sociolinguistics, Lotfi Sayahi
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Despite its small size (63,170 sq miles) and a rather small population with a stable growth rate,2 Tunisia represents a rich sociolinguistic laboratory with a long history of bilingualism and language contact. The delicate position of Berber, the diglossic situation of Arabic and the increasing efforts for Arabization, the regional and social variation in Tunisian Arabic, the presence of French, and the gradual spread of English, among other closely-related topics, constitute the core themes of research within Tunisian sociolinguistics. Since the publication of R. M. Payne’s Language in Tunisia in 1983, no attempt has been made to reassess the situation …
Introduction: Selected Proceedings Of The Third Workshop On Spanish Sociolinguistics, Jonathan Holmquist, Gerardo Augusto Lorenzino, Lotfi Sayahi
Introduction: Selected Proceedings Of The Third Workshop On Spanish Sociolinguistics, Jonathan Holmquist, Gerardo Augusto Lorenzino, Lotfi Sayahi
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This introduction to the Selected Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Spanish Sociolinguistics describes the conference and provides a synopsis of each paper in the proceedings. It includes acknowledgments for the conference, which was held at Temple University in 2006.
Phonological Adaptation Of Spanish Loanwords In Northern Moroccan Arabic, Lotfi Sayahi
Phonological Adaptation Of Spanish Loanwords In Northern Moroccan Arabic, Lotfi Sayahi
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In recent years, loanword phonology has attracted continuously growing attention as an area able to shed additional light on universal phonological patterns. The contexts and processes of loanword adaptation present a dy namic interaction between two distinct systems allowing for different theo retical interpretations (Paradis, 1996). Optimality Theory (Prince and Smolensky, 1993) has been suggested as a possible framework to analyze these processes (Yip, 1993; Katayama, 1998; Jacobs and Gussenhoven, 2000). The fact that OT recognizes the difference between languages as a difference in the ranking of the same universal constraints could explain the changes that loanwords may or may …
Introduction: Selected Proceedings Of The Second Workshop On Spanish Sociolinguistics, Lotfi Sayahi, Maurice Westmoreland
Introduction: Selected Proceedings Of The Second Workshop On Spanish Sociolinguistics, Lotfi Sayahi, Maurice Westmoreland
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This introduction to the Selected Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Spanish Sociolinguistics includes descriptions of the papers chosen for the volume and acknowledgments.
Introduction: Selected Proceedings Of The First Workshop On Spanish Sociolinguistics, Lotfi Sayahi
Introduction: Selected Proceedings Of The First Workshop On Spanish Sociolinguistics, Lotfi Sayahi
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This introduction to the Selected Proceedings of the First Workshop on Spanish Sociolinguistics includes the background for the conference, descriptions of the papers chosen for the volume, acknowledgments, and references.
La Conservación Del Artículo Definido 'Al' En Las Palabras Españolas De Origen Árabe, Lotfi Sayahi
La Conservación Del Artículo Definido 'Al' En Las Palabras Españolas De Origen Árabe, Lotfi Sayahi
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