Diglossia and Literacy: The Case of the Arab Reader

Autor/in	Gherwash, Ghada
Titel	Diglossia and Literacy: The Case of the Arab Reader
Quelle	In: Arab Journal of Applied Linguistics, 3 (2017) 3, S.56-85 (30 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2490-4198
Schlagwörter	Arabs; Bilingualism; Semitic Languages; Literacy; Reading; Individual Characteristics; Language Proficiency; Dialects; English; Socialization; Cultural Differences; Attitudes + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Arab; Araber; Bilingualismus; Arabisch; Hebräisch; Alphabetisierung; Schreib- und Lesefähigkeit; Leseprozess; Lesen; Personality characteristic; Personality traits; Persönlichkeitsmerkmal; Language skill; Language skills; Sprachkompetenz; Dialect; Dialekt; English language; Englisch; Socialisation; Sozialisation; Kultureller Unterschied; Attitude; Einstellung; Verhalten
Abstract	Using life-history interviews as a method of data collection and NVivo as a data analysis tool, this article presents a case study that focuses on how literacy, mainly reading, is practiced by four Arabic speakers from different parts of the Arab world. The narratives elicited from the interviews paint a picture of the Arab reader as dispassionate, whose exposure to reading rarely goes beyond the walls of the classroom. They attribute this situation partly to the diglossic nature of the Arabic language wherein users are oftentimes more proficient in the regional spoken varieties of the language than they are in Standard Arabic, the language of written discourse. This paper argues that the lack of a "reading culture" in the Arab world is due to an amalgamation of cultural and linguistic factors, among which is diglossia. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01