Publications

Publication details [#57609]

Dashti, Abdulmohsen A. 2013. Interacting with domestic workers in Kuwait: grammatical features of foreigner talk. A case study. International Journal of the Sociology of Language 2013 (224) : 63–84.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

language contact | language for special purposes | native vs. non-native interaction | sociolinguistics | speech community

Language as a subject

Arabic, Kuwait

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter

Journal WWW

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

Annotation

This sociolinguistic study explores simplified Kuwaiti Arabic grammatical constructions that Kuwaiti families employ when interacting with their foreign domestic workers and which may be labelled as “foreigner talk”.