Publications
Publication details [#58207]
Reif, Megan and Lindsay J. Benstead. 2013. Polarization or Pluralism? Language, Identity, and Attitudes toward American Culture among Algeria’s Youth. Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication 6 (1) : 75–106. 
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
Brill
Annotation
Post-colonial Algerian Arabization policies training students in Standard Arabic (to the exclusion of dialectal Arabic, Berber or French) have generated a somewhat polarized society, where a Francophone orientation is linked to mother tongue, religiosity, and socioeconomic status.