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Dialect Literature and Language Ideology in Gaddafi’s Libya: A Claim for Prestige

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Articolo della Rivista, Anno VIII, numero 15, giugno 2018

in La rivista di Arablit, a. VIII, n. 15, giugno 2018, pp. 93-103. The present review article offers a discussion of the two issues of dialectal prestige and the use of colloquial Arabic in literature, based on the analysis of the volume Ḫarārīf lībiyyah (Libyan Folktales). The collection of folktales, published in 2008 by the Libyan General Council of Culture, is preceded by an extremely interesting preface. Its author, Aḥmad Yūsuf ʿAqīlah (also the collector of the folktales), argues that Eastern Libyan Arabic should be regarded as a prestigious dialect due to its shared traits with different pre-Islamic [...]

Dialect Literature and Language Ideology in Gaddafi’s Libya: A Claim for Prestige2020-02-20T19:18:23+00:00