Publications

Publication details [#60101]

Chakrani, Brahim. 2015. Arabic interdialectal encounters: Investigating the influence of attitudes on language accommodation. Language & Communication 41 : 17–27.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

accommodation theory | dialectology | language attitude | language shift | language variety

Language as a subject

Arabic

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/

Annotation

Attitudes to Arabic varieties appear to motivate Arabic speakers' interdialectal accommodation in the U.S., which is shaky and may provoke language shift. Micro-level accommodation further mirrors macro-societal intergroup relations.