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Al-Jarf, Reima – Online Submission, 2011
The study investigates educated Arab's preference for using foreign words in Arabic oral discourse. A corpus of commonly used English/French words was collected. A sample of language and translation students and faculty was tested and surveyed to find out whether they were familiar with the Arabic equivalents to foreign words commonly used,…
Descriptors: Linguistic Borrowing, Semitic Languages, Language Usage, Language Attitudes