Language and identity construction in the United Arab Emirates

Ahmad Al‐Issa · Laila S. Dahan

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Linguistic and Sociocultural Studies Multilingual Education and Policy Language and Culture

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In the past few years in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) there has been growing concerns over the widespread use of English at all levels of education and within society. The rapid spread of global English and globalization has led to alarm among members of the general public, some political figures, and the media that English is reducing young people’s fluency in Arabic and leading to a loss of Arab identity. Using a post-structuralist lens, this chapter interrogates the subject of language and identity in the complex setting of the UAE and discovers that Arab identity is not solely based on Arabic.

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