Language Conflict in Algeria: From Colonialism to Post-Independence
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This is a book about the use of languages as a proxy for conflict. It traces the history of Algeria from colonization by the French in 1830 to the celebration of 50 years of independence in 2012, and examines the linguistic issues that have accompanied this turbulent period. The book begins with an examination of 'language conflict' and related concepts, and then applies them to both the French colonists' language policies and the Arabization campaigns which followed independence. This is followed by an analysis of the rivalry between the English and French languages in independent Algeria. The book concludes with a study of the language choices made by Algerian writers and the complex tensions which arose from these choices among intellectuals in the colonial and post-colonial periods.
Mohamed Benrabah
Mohamed Benrabah is Professor of English Linguistics and Sociolinguistics at Université Grenoble 3, France. The author's research interests include applied phonetics/phonology, sociolinguistics, and language management with a particular interest in the Anglophone, Arabophone and Francophone worlds. He has published two books (Langue et Pouvoir en Algérie. Histoire dâun Traumatisme Linguistique, Séguier, 1999; Devenir Langue Dominante Mondiale. Un Défi pour l'Arabe, Librairie Droz, 2009), a monograph, and more than fifty articles in journals and chapters in books.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I am an Algerian English student and researcher, and I have to say that Prof. Mohamed Benrabah's Book is one of the most comprehensible and descriptive books I have ever read about the linguistic conflict in Algeria may Allah Bless you for your efforts and help you for more valuable work.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This research is already almost 20 years old (surveys completed in 2005, book published in 2011), but it is still very important in terms of documenting the linguistic rivalries in Algeria at one point in the past, allowing current scholars to see what has changed and what has not.