عنوان

Social change and linguistic variation in Korba, a small Tunisian town

Number

TLpq303805518

.Language of Text, Soundtrack etc

انگلیسی

Title Proper

Social change and linguistic variation in Korba, a small Tunisian town

General Material Designation

[Thesis]

First Statement of Responsibility

Samuel Keith Walters

Subsequent Statement of Responsibility

J. Baugh, Jr.

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

The University of Texas at Austin

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

1989

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

351-351 p.

Dissertation or thesis details and type of degree

Ph.D.

Body granting the degree

The University of Texas at Austin

Text preceding or following the note

1989

Text of Note

This dissertation is a quantitative study of social change and linguistic variation in the dialect of Tunisian Arabic spoken in Korba, a small town in the Cap Bon, the northeastern penninsula of Tunisia. A sample of twenty-four speakers (eleven males and thirteen females) participated in tape-recorded sociolinguistic interviews; twenty-three of these speakers were interviewed by a female interviewer and eight were interviewed by a male interviewer. An analysis is offered for three variables (usd\varepsilonusd:) in word-final position, (s) in word-initial position, and (u:) in stressed syllables. In contrast to earlier studies, the behavior of both interviewers and interviewees was analyzed. As background to the study, a discussion of how social change that has taken place in Tunisia since independence in 1956 has influenced the linguistic situation of a country that is both diglossic and bilingual is included as well as reviews of relevant literature from quantitative sociolinguistics, Arabic sociolinguistics, and Tunisian Arabic. The study concludes with a discussion of implications of the research for sociolinguistic studies of variation in the Arab world and for the field of quantitative sociolinguistics in general.

Arabic

Language

Language, literature and linguistics

Linguistics

Social sciences

Womens studies

J. Baugh, Jr.

Samuel Keith Walters

Electronic name

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[Thesis]

276903

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