Patterns of communal language variation in Bahrain
- 1 September 1983
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Language in Society
- Vol. 12 (4) , 433-457
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0047404500010186
Abstract
The Arabic-speaking speech communities of the Persian Gulf state of Bahrain are undergoing a special kind of sociolinguistic change which requires the recognition of both dialectal and supradialectal prestige systems. Variation can be accounted for in terms of the articulation/conflict of these two systems. Although it appears at first sight that all of the observed variation could be explained at the phonological level, a closer analysis of the data suggests that, psycholinguistically and sociolinguistically, a lexical explanation fits part of it better. (Variation studies, standard and nonstandard languages)Keywords
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