Sociocultural Identity and Arab Women's and Men's Code-choice in the Context of Patriarchy
This article investigates young women’s and men’s speech in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia during a formal interview. Women frequently employed vernacular pronunciation and showed greater use of dialectal Arabic lexicon, often distinctively more localized. Men, on the other hand, approximated more closely to Standard Arabic speech. In the context of Arab patriarchy, it is argued that each gender’s preference for code choice can be explained by social and cultural norms that impose differential entitlements to the public sphere. Social meaning conveyed by speakers’ code choices is described in relation to the social indexical effect of each variety.
The chapter explores language attitudes and motivations to accent switches between the reflexes of /k/ in the colloquial speech of a diverse range of Saudi women and men from different…
Little attention has been given in the Arabic sociolinguistics literature on examining levelling influences across speakers of different dialects and social backgrounds. Moreover, the effect of…
The study examines the clitic [-ki] as it occurs in the second person feminine singular object/ possessive pronoun suffix of stem final consonants in the speech of Saudis of Arabic Najdi dialect…