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Article: Sacred language, ordinary people.(Linguistic Anthropology)(Book Review)
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- Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
- Article date:
- June 1, 2004
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HAERI, NILOOFAR, Sacred language, ordinary people. xvi, 184 pp., tables, bibliogr. Basingstoke, New York: Palgrave, 2003. [pounds sterling]13.99 (paper)
Scholars of the Arabic-speaking world are acutely aware of diglossia even when unfamiliar with this term for the hierarchical, domain-specific co-existence of two forms of language (or two languages) in a society. Modern classical Arabic, a form of the classical Arabic (CA) of the Quran and literature, is taught in classrooms and used in modern printing, while region-specific, colloquial Arabic is spoken in streets and at home, Sociolinguists have long considered Arabic the classic example of diglossia, yet Haeri ...