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Mouhssine, Ouafae. 1995. Ambivalence du discours sur l´arabisation. [Discourse ambivalence on Arabization.] International Journal of the Sociology of Language 16 (112) : 45–61.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
French
Keywords
bilingualism | dialect1 | language status | language use | national language | political discussion
Language as a subject
Berber | French | Moroccan
Place, Publisher
De Gruyter Mouton
ISBN
0165-2516
Journal WWW
www.degruyter.com/journal/key/IJSL/html

Annotation

This paper points out the ambiguity towards French and local languages reflected in the three main types of discourse -governmental, nationalist and Islamist- on Arabization in Morocco. These kinds of discourse all mirror internal contradictions between preservation of cultural identity and access to modernity and development.