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2 - Language Planning in the Arab World in an Age of Anxiety

from Part I - Arabic Applied Linguistics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 September 2021

By
Hussein M. Elkhafaifi
Edited by
Karin Ryding  and
David Wilmsen
Karin Ryding
Affiliation:
Georgetown University, Washington DC
David Wilmsen
Affiliation:
American University of Beirut
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Summary

Tackling a knotty but crucial issue, Hussein Elkhafaifi examines deep-seated and protracted challenges of language planning in the Arab world. The long legacy of variation and language shift in spoken Arabic has led not only to the evolution of fixed boundaries between vernacular and written Arabic, but also to vigorous attempts to monitor, control, and update the written language, especially its lexical resources. Academies dedicated to strengthening and extending the lexicon of Modern Standard Arabic have existed for a century or more in several Arab countries, but have faced problems in dealing with modernization and expansion, challenged not only by the vigorous thriving of vernacular Arabic, but also by competition from Western languages such as English and French, especially in higher education, where wholesale borrowing of terms seems to continue unabated.

Keywords

Arabic language academiesArabizationArabicizationlanguage planningterminology
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The Cambridge Handbook of Arabic Linguistics , pp. 32 - 47
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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