Author Description

Acknowledgements -- 1. Arabic sociolinguistics: principles and epistemology / Enam Al-Wer & Uri Horesh -- Historical aspects: 2. The Classification of Arabic and sociolinguistic variation in the pre-Islamic period / Ahmad Al-Jallad -- 3. Variation in Old Arabic / Jonathan Owens -- Dimensions of variation: 4. Regional Variation / William M. Cotter and Rudolf de Jong -- 5. Confessional Varieties / Clive Holes -- 6. Style and sociolinguistics / Jonathan Owens -- 7. Traditional dialects / Bruno Herin -- 8. Dialect contact and urban dialects / Ángeles Vicente -- 9. Peripheral varieties / George Grigore -- 10. Arabic-based pidgins and creoles / Stefano Manfredi and Fida Bizri -- Levels of analysis: 11. Phonological and morphological variation / Aziza Al-Essa -- 12. Prosodic variation / Sam Hellmuth -- 13. Syntactic Variation / Lina Choueiri -- Aspects of sociolinguistics in the Maghreb: 14. Variation and koinéization in the Maghreb / Leila Messaoudi -- 15. Morphosyntactic variation: focus on Maltese and other western varieties / Maris Camilleri -- 16. Diglossia and the normalization of the vernacular: focus on Tunisia / Lotfi Sayahi -- Language and ideology: 17. Form and ideology revisited / Niloofar Haeri and William M. Cotter -- 18. Ideologies in the manifestations in language contact situations: the case of Arabic-Hebrew in Palestine / Nancy Hawker -- Applied sociolinguistics: 19. Sociolinguistics and the Teaching of Arabic as a Foreign Language / Peter Glanville -- 20. From an MSA-only to a fully integrated Arabic foreign language curriculum / Munther Younes and Elizabeth Huntley -- 21. Diglossia and language development / Reem Khamis-Dakwar and Karen Froud -- 22. Language Analysis for Determination of Origin (LADO) in Arabic-dominant settings / Peter L Patrick -- Index.