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Abu-Haidar, Farida. 1989. Are Iraqi women more prestige conscious than men? Sex differentiation in Baghdadi Arabic. Language in Society 18 (4) : 471–481.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

dialect1 | gender | prestige | standard1 vs. dialect2

Language as a subject

Arabic, Baghdadi

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

ISBN

0047-4045

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

This paper on sex differences in Baghdadi Arabic, examines why women's speech is characterized by a higher frequency of Standard literary Arabic forms and a smaller incidence of stigmatized vernacular forms.