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The role of some population sectors in the progress of Arabization in Morocco

The role of some population sectors in the progress of Arabization in Morocco Introduction This paper is an outcome of an elaboration of a number of important points raised and briefly discussed in Elbiad (1985), an empirical investigation of the process of Arabization2 and the conditioning factors which either hinder or favor it. Arabization began when the first government of independent Morocco came to power in 1956 and made one of its major objectives the replacement of French, the colonial language, with Arabic, the country's national language. The plan has yet to be completed. The study is based upon self-attributed linguistic competence of carefully chosen segments of the target population in the typically focal area of the capital city, Rabat, particularly in Classical Arabic and French, their language-use patterns, their attitudes, their reactions to Arabization and bilingualism, and their perceptions of what constitutes the conditioning factors of Arabization. On the basis of a categorization of these factors äs identified and perceived by the respondents themselves, it was found that the students and the Professionals were very important with regard to Arabization; but the former were found to play a more important role than the latter in its progress. However, the role of these important population segments should not be interpreted äs http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png International Journal of the Sociology of Language de Gruyter

The role of some population sectors in the progress of Arabization in Morocco

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de Gruyter
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Copyright © 2009 Walter de Gruyter
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0165-2516
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1613-3668
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10.1515/ijsl.1991.87.27
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Introduction This paper is an outcome of an elaboration of a number of important points raised and briefly discussed in Elbiad (1985), an empirical investigation of the process of Arabization2 and the conditioning factors which either hinder or favor it. Arabization began when the first government of independent Morocco came to power in 1956 and made one of its major objectives the replacement of French, the colonial language, with Arabic, the country's national language. The plan has yet to be completed. The study is based upon self-attributed linguistic competence of carefully chosen segments of the target population in the typically focal area of the capital city, Rabat, particularly in Classical Arabic and French, their language-use patterns, their attitudes, their reactions to Arabization and bilingualism, and their perceptions of what constitutes the conditioning factors of Arabization. On the basis of a categorization of these factors äs identified and perceived by the respondents themselves, it was found that the students and the Professionals were very important with regard to Arabization; but the former were found to play a more important role than the latter in its progress. However, the role of these important population segments should not be interpreted äs

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International Journal of the Sociology of Language – de Gruyter

Published: Jan 1, 1991

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