"Why not the thoub and the abaya?" An interactional sociolinguistic approach to the interplay between nationality, gender, and professional identity in the Qatari academic workplace.
Although identity is recognized as an important topic in Arabic sociolinguistics, little attention has been paid to how major structural changes impact different forms of identity, especially in professional and workplace contexts. In this article we tackle this gap to investigate how Qatari junior...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Arabic Sociolinguistics Vol. 2; no. 1; pp. 94 - 116 |
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Edinburgh University Press
Mar2024
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