Open AccessDiglossi i moderne arabisk skønlitteratur
Author(s) -
Elisabeth A. Moestrup
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
passage
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1904-7797
pISSN - 0901-8883
DOI - 10.7146/pas.v24i62.6360
Subject(s) - diglossia , arabic , coining (mint) , linguistics , negotiation , pollock , homogenization (climate) , history , phenomenon , sociology , social science , epistemology , philosophy , art history , archaeology , biodiversity , ecology , biology
Elisabeth A. Moestrup: “Diglossia in Modern Arabic Fiction”This article discusses the phenomenon of diglossia as it is encountered in two recent works by the contemporary authors, Yusef Fadel from Morocco and Rashid al-Daif from Lebanon, Fadel and al-Daif each applies their own experimental way of negotiating the reality of diglossia and all that it entails. The article also looks into Dan Diner’s Lost in the Sacred in which he ascribes the ailments of the Arab world to among other things the failure to modernise the state of the language; as it looks into Sidney Pollock’s article about linguistic homogenization globally and Arabic’s place in this.