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“Good Arabic, Bad Arabic” Mapping Language Ideologies in the Arabic-speaking World
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DOI https://doi.org/10.13173/zeitarabling.61.0035
Drawing on perceptual dialectology and ethnographic research, this paper explores Moroccan Arabic speakers' ideologized perceptions of different regional and national Arabic vernaculars. Specifically, data come from a map-drawing and labeling task by 52 Moroccans of different ages and social classes divided equally between men and women. The study's aims are twofold: (1) to explore Moroccans' most commonly drawn perceptual linguistic boundaries of the Arabic-speaking world; and (2) to develop a better understanding of the underlying ideologies that render a particular national or regional Arabic a “good” or “bad” variety of Arabic, especially from the perspective of speakers of a non-dominant variety. Preliminary findings show participants' subjective dialect divisions are to a large extent consistent with the five Arabic dialect areas defined by dialectologists. Further evaluative map-labeling, however, reveals systematic inter- and intra-regional sociolinguistic hierarchization, with the majority of Moroccan participants positioning Syrian Arabic as the “best Arabic,” based on a complex range of ideologies, beliefs, and attitudes. The research also shows participants' ambivalences towards other varieties of Arabic, including their own national variety. As the first study to extend the ‘draw-a-map’ method to Arabic dialects, this research contributes to Arabic dialectology and sociolinguistics, and adds to the emerging field of perceptual dialectology (PRESTON 1999, LONG — PRESTON 2002).
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