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Publication details [#44087]

Hoffman, Katherine E. 2006. Berber language ideologies, maintenance, and contraction: Gendered variation in the indigenous margins of Morocco. Language & Communication 26 (2) : 114–167.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

gender | language loss | language maintenance | minority | power

Language as a subject

Berber

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/

Annotation

This paper discusses how two southwestern Moroccan groups of Tashelhit Berber speakers differ as far as their patterns of language maintenance and contraction are concerned, whilst in both, women are central in manners engaging their dissimilar relationships to Arabic speakers and to their own rurality conceptions.