SIMPLIFIED ARABIC OR BILINGUALISM? ACADEMIC DISCOURSE CONFRONTED WITH LITERARY EVIDENCE.

• Authors: Drozdík Ladislav
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Simplification of Standard Arabic is one of the most hopeful reform strategies proposed to make communication in the recent Arabophone space more efficient. The overwhelming impact of the Arab cultural tradition with the Classical Arabic of the early Arab grammarians as its linguistic ideal removes nearly all language reform activities to the realm of theory. The reality of a prestigious substandard, identified in native terms with 'lugha wusTa' or 'lugha mutawassiTaI', still unrecognized as an autonomous and fully-qualified linguistic entity, is confronted with the idea of bilingualism that has to end the era of diglossia.

Keywords

EN

ARAB CULTURAL TRADITION; BILINGUALISM; CLASSICAL ARABIC; COLLOQUIAL ARABIC; SIMPLIFICATION OF ARABIC; STANDARD ARABIC

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Institute of Oriental Studies, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Asian and African Studies
• Year: 2008
• Volume: 17
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 224 - 239
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Drozdík Ladislav

• Institute of Oriental Studies, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Klemensova 19, 813 64 Bratislava, Slovak Republic

• L. Drozdík, Ustav orientalistiky SAV, Klemensova 19, 813 64 Bratislava, Slovak Republic

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

08SKAAAA054113