Publications

Publication details [#30526]

Shaaban, Kassim and Ghazi Ghaith. 2002. University students' perceptions of the ethnolinguistic vitality of Arabic, French and English in Lebanon. Journal of Sociolinguistics 6 (4) : 557–574.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

ethnolinguistics | language status | language use | language vitality | multilingualism

Language as a subject

Arabic | English | French

Place, Publisher

Blackwell Publishers

ISBN

1360-6441

Journal WWW

www.ingenta.com/journals/browse/bpl/josl

Annotation

This study proposes to examine Lebanese university students' perceptions with regard to the vitality and the societal roles of the three languages actively in use in Lebanon, that is Arabic, French and English.