Atwell, ES, Al-Sulaiti, L and Sharoff, S
(2009)
Arabic and Arab English in the Arab world.
In:
Proceedings of CL2009 International Conference on Corpus Linguistics.
Proceedings of CL2009 International Conference on Corpus Linguistics, 20-23 Jul 2009, University of Liverpool, UK.
UCREL, Lancaster University
Abstract
We begin with two questions about the relative status of Arabic and English in the Arab World: Is there an Arab English? And should Arab science be reported in English or Arabic? To investigate the first question, we collected a WWW corpus of English from Arab countries, and used this as a basis for comparison with UK and US English WWW-corpora. We present the differences found, and possible explanations for the differences. This leads us to some conclusions and ideas for further investigation.
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Item Type:
Proceedings Paper
Authors/Creators:
Atwell, ES
Al-Sulaiti, L
Sharoff, S
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