A state-of-the-art survey of Arabic linguistics, covering both traditional and modern topics and pioneering studies of new Arabic media.

Introduction and Chapter Summaries Karin Ryding and David Wilmsen; Part I. Arabic Applied Linguistics: 1. Arabic Applied Linguistics Mohammad Alhawary; 2. Language Planning in the Arab World Hussein Elkhafaifi; 3. The Study of Arabic Language Acquisition Karen Froud and Reem Khamis-Dakwar; 4. Issues in Arabic Language Testing and Assessment Michael Raish; 5. Arabic Study Abroad: Critical Contextualization and Research-based Interventions Emma Trentman; 6. Models of Arabic Pronunciation Kassem Wahba; Part II. Arabic Variation and Sociolinguistics: 7. Diglossia, Variation, and Structural Complexity Samira Farwaneh; 8. Sociolinguistic Variation and Variation in Sociolinguistics Uri Horesh; 9. What is Formal Spoken Arabic? Gunvor Mejdell; 10. Arabic Dialectology Stephan Procházka; 11. Maltese: A Peripheral Dialect in the Historical Dialectology of Arabic David Wilmsen; Part III. Theoretical and Descriptive Studies: 12. Grammaticalization in Arabic Mohssen Esseesy; 13. Arabic and Onomastics Terrence Potter; 14. The Intonation of Arabic Khaled Rifaat; 15. Case in Arabic Karin Ryding; 16. On Arabic Morphosyntax within the Theory of Generative Grammar Usama Soltan; 17. Arabic Morphology: Inflectional and Derivational Janet Watson; Part IV. Arabic Computational and Corpus Linguistics: 18. Arabic Computational Linguistics Nizar Habash; 19. Arabic Corpus Linguistics and Related Tools: An Overview and Some Critical Observations Mark Van Mol; 20. The Utility of Arabic Corpus Linguistics Mai Zaki, David Wilmsen and Dana Abdulrahim; Part V. Arabic Linguistics and New Media Studies: 21. Language Policy and the Arabic Localization of Twitter Amy Johnson; 22. Variation and Social Change on Syrian Dissidents' Social Media Francesco Sinatora; Part VI. Arabic Linguistics in Literature and Translation: 23. Vernacular Varieties in Recent Arabic Literature Eva Håland; 24. Stylistics and Translation: A Corpus-based Case Study of English-Arabic Demonstratives Mai Zaki.