Arab World English Journal For Translation and Literary Studies
This study analyzes the Algerian novel Fahla from a sociolinguistic point of view. The author has... more This study analyzes the Algerian novel Fahla from a sociolinguistic point of view. The author has taken the initiative to write his novel in Algerian and in Latin characters and Arabic characters for both Arabic and Francophone readers since Algerian remains uncodified to this day. The main objective is to observe the linguistic system of the Algerian language and that of the standard Arabic one to understand the functioning of the dialect mentioned above and demonstrate the need to study its linguistic typology and the phylogenetic relationships between the two languages. It is essential to investigate the relationship between language use, society, and identity to compare them. The novel is an appropriate example to analyze this three-dimensionality of language as osmosis that reflects the uniqueness of each speaker. A sociolinguistic study is carried out to evaluate the validity of Algerian as an official language. Fragments of texts that reflect these characteristics are conside...
The study consists of analyzing the Algerian language, also referred to as the Algerian dialect, ... more The study consists of analyzing the Algerian language, also referred to as the Algerian dialect, in order to explore its use within Algerian society. The Algerian dialect is a national language which is seldom studied, although it is the language predominantly used in everyday life (Chachou, 2008; Kerras and Baya, 2017, 2016; Ibrahimi, 2004, etc.). The objective of our study is to demonstrate, once again, that the Algerian dialect is a language in its own right (Kerras and Baya, 2018), as each country has the right and the duty to use their mother tongue not only in domestic affairs but also in education so as to avoid discrimination and social exclusion (Amoros Negre, 2014). For these reasons, a complementary study is carried out in order to study the use of the Algerian language in audiovisual contexts, with a particular focus on subtitles.
espanolEl presente articulo es un estudio sociolinguistico y paremiologico basado en la experimen... more espanolEl presente articulo es un estudio sociolinguistico y paremiologico basado en la experimentacion y la observacion de los refranes argelinos con el objeto de comprender y conocer mejor su identidad sociocultural. Se ha realizado una comparacion entre refranes argelinos y proverbios arabes, asi como su correspondencia en otras lenguas, con el fin de observar la informacion y la sabiduria popular que transmite cada cultura. Nuestro estudio se basa en la logica empirica: tras identificar el problema de la investigacion, formulamos la hipotesis, recopilamos la informacion y analizamos los datos para confirmar o negar la hipotesis desde un punto de vista linguistico y pragmatico. Trabajamos con refranes que los argelinos utilizan frecuentemente con la idea de expresar una moralidad o una verdad basada en la experiencia. El metodo descriptivo y comparativo permite efectuar un analisis linguistico y sociolinguistico de los componentes del mensaje proverbial. Se ha estudiado una relac...
In the Arab world, bridge languages tend to be viewed as dialects, while standard Arabic is consi... more In the Arab world, bridge languages tend to be viewed as dialects, while standard Arabic is considered the official language common across all Arab countries. In reality, things are quite different. In this document we explore the importance of the local languages used in each country, based on an empirical study involving natives of various Arab countries, including Algeria,
A sociolinguistic study is made of the Maltese language to compare it to the Algerian language. A... more A sociolinguistic study is made of the Maltese language to compare it to the Algerian language. Algerian is not the official language in Algeria, although it is the national one, and in this article an empirical study is undertaken to question the particularities of Algerian and its formation, comparing it with Maltese which has itself gained official status. Maltese, or "the language of the kitchen" as it is known, has gained important status on the island after decades of foreign occupation and linguistic influence from various civilizations that left palpable paw prints on the Mediterranean island. Maltese has managed to successfully confirm its linguistic identity, through a noticeable influence of Arabic, Italian and English amongst other languages that have imposed themselves and had a hand in forming the Maltese language. A sociolinguistic and historical study is made to explain the formation of Algerian comparing it to Maltese and the influence of history in both languages. A historical study is made to compare and observe the historic diachronic of both countries, and we compare the influence of foreign languages in Algeria and Malta. Likewise, an empirical study is undertaken to question the use of Algerian from various angles, and to examine the linguistic identity in Algeria.
The study discusses the online teaching and learning of Arabic in order to evaluate students’ dif... more The study discusses the online teaching and learning of Arabic in order to evaluate students’ difficulties and the way in which to approach this language in an interactive way, overcoming the barriers of computer screens. Nevertheless, e-learning is the future of education and it is crucial to offer a quality education, implementing emotional learning consciousness within the academic community. The COVID-19 pandemic impacted practically every country in the world. It created an extremely difficult global situation, and humanity found itself faced with an emergency state of working online and swiftly adapting its routine to a new reality. This was certainly the case in Spain when, in mid-March 2020, students were forced to study from home and teachers to teach at a distance. COVID-19 - and its related restrictions arrived suddenly, and there was little to no time to acclimatise to the new way of studying. The objective of this study is to analyse the difficulties faced by students o...
The study deals with the subject of learning languages online. Many studies (Chelghoum & Chelghou... more The study deals with the subject of learning languages online. Many studies (Chelghoum & Chelghoum, 2020; Arabeche & Soudani, 2021) have been carried out over the last year to investigate the needs of the pedagogical changes as a result of the world health situation. The Covid-19 pandemic wreaked havoc all over the globe. This unprecedented situation created huge complications for citizens worldwide, with emergency offices suddenly appearing in students’ and workers’ kitchens, bedrooms, and living rooms due to the large-scale lockdowns and stringent restrictions on movement put into place by governments. The sudden and unexpected nature of this “new normal” left very little time for acclimatisation to the online learning modes, with students and teachers alike adapting and improvising. This study aims to investigate the difficulties of Algerian students and analysing the interactive techniques which could be applied in language studying, and overcoming the barriers of computer scree...
In the Arab world, bridge languages tend to be viewed as dialects, while standard Arabic is consi... more In the Arab world, bridge languages tend to be viewed as dialects, while standard Arabic is considered the official language common across all Arab countries. In reality, things are quite different. In this document we explore the importance of the local languages used in each country, based on an empirical study involving natives of various Arab countries, including Algeria, Morocco, Libya, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Mauritania, the United Arab Emirates, Western Sahara and Egypt, plus European citizens of Arabic origin. We have treated the languages pragmatically so as to relate the language to the culture of each people, while also analysing the linguistic conventions of each speaker. RESUMEN En el mundo árabe, las lenguas vehiculares suelen tratarse como dialectos, mientras que la lengua árabe estándar se considera la lengua oficial de todos los países árabes. Sin embargo, la realidad es muy distinta. En este trabajo se analiza la importancia de las lenguas locales de cada país, a partir de un estudio empírico realizado con personas de diversos países árabes, como son Argelia, Marruecos, Libia, Kuwait, Arabia Saudí, Mauritania, Emiratos Árabes Unidos, Sáhara Occidental y Egipto, así como ciudadanos europeos de origen árabe. En este sentido, las lenguas son tratadas desde una perspectiva pragmática para, así, relacionar la lengua con la cultura de cada pueblo, además de analizar las convenciones lingüísticas de cada hablante.
Arab World English Journal For Translation and Literary Studies
This study analyzes the Algerian novel Fahla from a sociolinguistic point of view. The author has... more This study analyzes the Algerian novel Fahla from a sociolinguistic point of view. The author has taken the initiative to write his novel in Algerian and in Latin characters and Arabic characters for both Arabic and Francophone readers since Algerian remains uncodified to this day. The main objective is to observe the linguistic system of the Algerian language and that of the standard Arabic one to understand the functioning of the dialect mentioned above and demonstrate the need to study its linguistic typology and the phylogenetic relationships between the two languages. It is essential to investigate the relationship between language use, society, and identity to compare them. The novel is an appropriate example to analyze this three-dimensionality of language as osmosis that reflects the uniqueness of each speaker. A sociolinguistic study is carried out to evaluate the validity of Algerian as an official language. Fragments of texts that reflect these characteristics are conside...
The study consists of analyzing the Algerian language, also referred to as the Algerian dialect, ... more The study consists of analyzing the Algerian language, also referred to as the Algerian dialect, in order to explore its use within Algerian society. The Algerian dialect is a national language which is seldom studied, although it is the language predominantly used in everyday life (Chachou, 2008; Kerras and Baya, 2017, 2016; Ibrahimi, 2004, etc.). The objective of our study is to demonstrate, once again, that the Algerian dialect is a language in its own right (Kerras and Baya, 2018), as each country has the right and the duty to use their mother tongue not only in domestic affairs but also in education so as to avoid discrimination and social exclusion (Amoros Negre, 2014). For these reasons, a complementary study is carried out in order to study the use of the Algerian language in audiovisual contexts, with a particular focus on subtitles.
espanolEl presente articulo es un estudio sociolinguistico y paremiologico basado en la experimen... more espanolEl presente articulo es un estudio sociolinguistico y paremiologico basado en la experimentacion y la observacion de los refranes argelinos con el objeto de comprender y conocer mejor su identidad sociocultural. Se ha realizado una comparacion entre refranes argelinos y proverbios arabes, asi como su correspondencia en otras lenguas, con el fin de observar la informacion y la sabiduria popular que transmite cada cultura. Nuestro estudio se basa en la logica empirica: tras identificar el problema de la investigacion, formulamos la hipotesis, recopilamos la informacion y analizamos los datos para confirmar o negar la hipotesis desde un punto de vista linguistico y pragmatico. Trabajamos con refranes que los argelinos utilizan frecuentemente con la idea de expresar una moralidad o una verdad basada en la experiencia. El metodo descriptivo y comparativo permite efectuar un analisis linguistico y sociolinguistico de los componentes del mensaje proverbial. Se ha estudiado una relac...
In the Arab world, bridge languages tend to be viewed as dialects, while standard Arabic is consi... more In the Arab world, bridge languages tend to be viewed as dialects, while standard Arabic is considered the official language common across all Arab countries. In reality, things are quite different. In this document we explore the importance of the local languages used in each country, based on an empirical study involving natives of various Arab countries, including Algeria,
A sociolinguistic study is made of the Maltese language to compare it to the Algerian language. A... more A sociolinguistic study is made of the Maltese language to compare it to the Algerian language. Algerian is not the official language in Algeria, although it is the national one, and in this article an empirical study is undertaken to question the particularities of Algerian and its formation, comparing it with Maltese which has itself gained official status. Maltese, or "the language of the kitchen" as it is known, has gained important status on the island after decades of foreign occupation and linguistic influence from various civilizations that left palpable paw prints on the Mediterranean island. Maltese has managed to successfully confirm its linguistic identity, through a noticeable influence of Arabic, Italian and English amongst other languages that have imposed themselves and had a hand in forming the Maltese language. A sociolinguistic and historical study is made to explain the formation of Algerian comparing it to Maltese and the influence of history in both languages. A historical study is made to compare and observe the historic diachronic of both countries, and we compare the influence of foreign languages in Algeria and Malta. Likewise, an empirical study is undertaken to question the use of Algerian from various angles, and to examine the linguistic identity in Algeria.
The study discusses the online teaching and learning of Arabic in order to evaluate students’ dif... more The study discusses the online teaching and learning of Arabic in order to evaluate students’ difficulties and the way in which to approach this language in an interactive way, overcoming the barriers of computer screens. Nevertheless, e-learning is the future of education and it is crucial to offer a quality education, implementing emotional learning consciousness within the academic community. The COVID-19 pandemic impacted practically every country in the world. It created an extremely difficult global situation, and humanity found itself faced with an emergency state of working online and swiftly adapting its routine to a new reality. This was certainly the case in Spain when, in mid-March 2020, students were forced to study from home and teachers to teach at a distance. COVID-19 - and its related restrictions arrived suddenly, and there was little to no time to acclimatise to the new way of studying. The objective of this study is to analyse the difficulties faced by students o...
The study deals with the subject of learning languages online. Many studies (Chelghoum & Chelghou... more The study deals with the subject of learning languages online. Many studies (Chelghoum & Chelghoum, 2020; Arabeche & Soudani, 2021) have been carried out over the last year to investigate the needs of the pedagogical changes as a result of the world health situation. The Covid-19 pandemic wreaked havoc all over the globe. This unprecedented situation created huge complications for citizens worldwide, with emergency offices suddenly appearing in students’ and workers’ kitchens, bedrooms, and living rooms due to the large-scale lockdowns and stringent restrictions on movement put into place by governments. The sudden and unexpected nature of this “new normal” left very little time for acclimatisation to the online learning modes, with students and teachers alike adapting and improvising. This study aims to investigate the difficulties of Algerian students and analysing the interactive techniques which could be applied in language studying, and overcoming the barriers of computer scree...
In the Arab world, bridge languages tend to be viewed as dialects, while standard Arabic is consi... more In the Arab world, bridge languages tend to be viewed as dialects, while standard Arabic is considered the official language common across all Arab countries. In reality, things are quite different. In this document we explore the importance of the local languages used in each country, based on an empirical study involving natives of various Arab countries, including Algeria, Morocco, Libya, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Mauritania, the United Arab Emirates, Western Sahara and Egypt, plus European citizens of Arabic origin. We have treated the languages pragmatically so as to relate the language to the culture of each people, while also analysing the linguistic conventions of each speaker. RESUMEN En el mundo árabe, las lenguas vehiculares suelen tratarse como dialectos, mientras que la lengua árabe estándar se considera la lengua oficial de todos los países árabes. Sin embargo, la realidad es muy distinta. En este trabajo se analiza la importancia de las lenguas locales de cada país, a partir de un estudio empírico realizado con personas de diversos países árabes, como son Argelia, Marruecos, Libia, Kuwait, Arabia Saudí, Mauritania, Emiratos Árabes Unidos, Sáhara Occidental y Egipto, así como ciudadanos europeos de origen árabe. En este sentido, las lenguas son tratadas desde una perspectiva pragmática para, así, relacionar la lengua con la cultura de cada pueblo, además de analizar las convenciones lingüísticas de cada hablante.
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