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T1 Immigrant workers and language formation: Gulf Pidgin Arabic
A1 Avram, Andrei A.
K1 Immigrant workers
K1 Urbanization
K1 Mutilingualism
K1 Pidgin formation
K1 Gulf Pidgin Arabic
K1 Trabajadores inmigrantes
K1 Urbanización
K1 Multilingüismo
K1 Creación de pidgin
K1 Pidgin del Golfo Pérsico
K1 Lingüística
K1 Linguistics
K1 Sociología
K1 Sociology
AB Ever since the oil boom of the 1970s, Saudi Arabia and the countrieson the western coast of the Arab Gulf, i.e. Kuwait, the United ArabEmirates, Oman, Bahrain, and Qatar, have been witnessing both asignificant increase in their non-national labour force and considerableurbanization. Most of the immigrant workers come from South andSouth-East Asia, with smaller number of expatriates from otherregions. The overwhelming majority of these foreign workers liveand work in the cities, which have thus become not only a meetingplace of speakers of a variety of languages, but also a linguistic laboratoryin which a new means of inter-ethnic communication, generallyknown as Gulf Pidgin Arabic, has emerged in approximately the last40 years. The present paper describes the main features of the phonology,morphology, syntax, and vocabulary of this still underresearched pidgin. Also discussed are the various sources of thesefeatures: the speakers’ first languages, the Foreigner Talk register ofArabic, grammaticalization, Gulf Arabic, and English.
PB Universidad de Alcalá. Servicio de Publicaciones
SN 1889-5425
YR 2014
FD 2014
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10017/21977
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10017/21977
LA eng
DS MINDS@UW
RD 20-abr-2024