Social Network Sites and Arabic Diglossia Between Threatening Modern Standard Arabic and Strengthening Colloquial Arabic

Ahlem Chelghoum

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Social Network Sites and Arabic Diglossia Between Threatening Modern Standard Arabic and Strengthening Colloquial Arabic

Ahlem Chelghoum

Published in International Journal of Language and Linguistics (Volume 5, Issue 3-1)

Received: 6 March 2017 Accepted: 18 March 2017 Published: 15 April 2017

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Abstract

The present research paper aims to examine the effects of social network sites on Arabic. It tries to shed some light on one substantial phenomenon that the Arabic language is known for, which is diglossia. The latter clearly poses many challenges and many questions may arise. Therefore, 78 Arab users of Facebook participated in an online survey in order to investigate their use of Arabic language in the social network site, Facebook, and to what extent it can affect the Standard and Colloquial Arabic.

Published in	International Journal of Language and Linguistics (Volume 5, Issue 3-1) This article belongs to the Special Issue New Trends in Arabic Sociolinguistics
DOI	10.11648/j.ijll.s.2017050301.15
Page(s)	36-43
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Modern Standard Arabic, Diglossia, Colloquial Arabic, Social Network Sites

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Ahlem Chelghoum. Social Network Sites and Arabic Diglossia Between Threatening Modern Standard Arabic and Strengthening Colloquial Arabic. Int J Lang Linguist. 2017;5(3-1):36-43. doi: 10.11648/j.ijll.s.2017050301.15

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Department of English, Faculty of Foreign Languages, University of Badji Mokhtar, Annaba, Algeria

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