Al-Wer, Enam (2025) Sociolinguistics and the Bedouin/Sedentary split: Jordan as a case study. Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes WZKM, 115. pp. 63-76. DOI https://doi.org/10.25365/phaidra.684_03
Al-Wer, Enam (2025) Sociolinguistics and the Bedouin/Sedentary split: Jordan as a case study. Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes WZKM, 115. pp. 63-76. DOI https://doi.org/10.25365/phaidra.684_03
Al-Wer, Enam (2025) Sociolinguistics and the Bedouin/Sedentary split: Jordan as a case study. Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes WZKM, 115. pp. 63-76. DOI https://doi.org/10.25365/phaidra.684_03
Abstract
The article focuses on the terms ‘Bedouin’ and ‘Sedentary’ that have been widely used to classify Arabic dialects, arguing that their usefulness as social categories in Arabic sociolinguistics is limited and can be misleading. The discussion is illustrated through analysis of sociolinguistic developments in Jordan, highlighting the multiple social meanings that these terms can assume as they interact with gender, religion and religiosity, occupation, state formation and national identity. Keywords: Arabic sociolinguistics, Bedouin–Sedentary split, Jordanian Arabic
| Item Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Arabic sociolinguistics, Bedouin–Sedentary split, Jordanian Arabic |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Language and Linguistics, Department of |
| SWORD Depositor: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
| Depositing User: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
| Date Deposited: | 27 May 2025 08:00 |
| Last Modified: | 03 Jul 2025 11:53 |
| URI: | http://repository.essex.ac.uk/id/eprint/40965 |
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