One: Identity and Loyalty
1: Nationalism and the Arabic Language: An Historical Overview *
2: Algeria: Language, Nation and State
3: Language Loyalty: The Case of Algerian Immigrants' Children in France
4: Discriminating Texts: Orthographic Marking and Social Differentiation in the Court Records of Ottoman Damascus
Two: Aspects of Linguistic Behaviour
5: "What's in a Name?": Women in Egyptian Obituaries *
6: Generations of Change in Name-Giving
7: Talking to Machines in Arabic
8: The Metalinguistic Joke: Sociolinguistic Dimensions of an Arabic Folk Genre
Three: Varieties and Variation
9: Speaking Fu??? in Cairo: the Role of the Ending Vowels
10: Attitudinal Reactions to Language Change in an Urban Setting
11: The Situation Of Arabic In Israel
Four: Theoretical Issues
12: On the Definition of Dialect with Reference to Yemeni Dialects of Arabic
13: Medieval Arabic as a Form of 'Social Contract', with Special Reference to Ibn-Hish?m's Mughn? Al-Lab?b * .
