| Popis: |
The degree of correspondence between the spoken and written forms of language varies from one language to another. In the case of Arabic the distance between the standard written variety and all of the many spoken varieties is very conspicuous, causing a host of sociolinguistic problems some of which are discussed in this paper. It is argued that the unique relationship between Islam and Arabic and the fact that literacy training is provided in standard Arabic only are at the bottom of many linguistic and educational problems today encountered in the Arab world. |
