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DESCRIPTION:The talk discusses Arabic dialect contact in the Siwa Oasis i
 n Egypt. Dialect contact is a steady research interest in mainstream soc
 iolinguistics (e.g. Trudgill 1986) and Arabic sociolinguistics as well (
 e.g. Miller et al. 2007). Dialectologists have described the Nile shores
  and the arabophone oases of the Western Desert of Egypt as an area of e
 ncounter different dialect types (e.g. Behnstedt & Woidich 1985-88) and 
 explained their mixed features as the outcome of population movements fr
 om a historical linguistic perspective (Behnstedt & Woidich 2018). Focus
 ing on more recent phenomena\, De Jong (1996) has described processes of
  accommodation\, levelling and performance in the Bedouin dialects of th
 e Sinai\, while Miller (2005) accounted for processes of dialect contact
  and accommodation in the speech of Upper Egyptian migrants in Cairo. Fi
 nally\, Bassiouney (2018) has analyzed the competing values of Cairene a
 nd Upper Egyptian dialects with a macro-sociolinguistic perspective. The
  study presented in this talk brings a new insight\, as it is based on L
 2 Arabic rather than L1 Arabic.\nThe Siwi Berber-speaking population of 
 Siwa has been exposed to different Arabic varieties in different histori
 cal moments (Souag 2013). More recently\, Siwans are exposed to both Cai
 rene and Bedouin Arabic. The analysis of L2 Arabic spoken by different g
 enerations of Siwi speakers points to a growing preference for Cairene A
 rabic in the younger generations\, whose speech displays less occurrence
 s of Bedouin features in comparison to elderly speakers’. In light of th
 e geographical proximity of Bedouin speakers\, the preference for Cairen
 e is attributed to the prestige enjoyed by this variety nationwide and a
 ligns with previous studies on dialect contact based on L1 Arabic. 
URL:https://talks.stuts.de/en/stuts67/public/events/292
SUMMARY:KeyNote Prof. Serreli - Dialect Contact in Egypt
ORGANIZER:stuts67
LOCATION:stuts67 - De Saussure
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