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Publication details [#57576]

Bassiouney, Reem. 2013. The social motivation of code-switching in mosque sermons in Egypt. International Journal of the Sociology of Language 2013 (220) : 49–66.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

code-switching | motivation | religion | sermon | sociolinguistics

Language as a subject

Arabic, Egyptian | Arabic, Standard

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.com/journal/key/IJSL/html

Annotation

This study demonstrates how Islamic preachers utilize the Egyptian diglossic situation, and in particular SA (standard Arabic)-ECA (Egyptian colloquial Arabic) code-switching, in their mosque sermons, in order to transmit social (/religious) messages more efficiently to their target audience.