Publications

Publication details [#57794]

Hachimi, Atiqa. 2013. The Maghreb-Mashreq language ideology and the politics of identity in a globalized Arab world. Journal of Sociolinguistics 17 (3) : 269–296.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

dialectology | identity negotiation | internet | language use | vernacular

Language as a subject

Arabic

Place, Publisher

Wiley-Blackwell

Journal WWW

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

Annotation

This paper discusses the (language ideology underlying the) hierarchical relationship between Mashreqi (Middle Eastern) and Maghrebi (North African) vernacular Arabic varieties. It focuses on identity politicis and the de/authentication of linguistic Arabness via a prolix examination of a transnational pan-Arab reality/talent TV show, uploaded to YouTube.