Moroccan Arabic in TV fiction: promoting de-localised individuals to model speakers

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International Journal of the Sociology of Language Pub Date : 2022-11-01 DOI:10.1515/ijsl-2022-0014

Jacopo Falchetta

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Abstract

Abstract This paper aims at clarifying the role that TV fiction plays in the indexical redistribution of Moroccan Arabic (MA) linguistic features, and how this is connected to media’s contribution to the non-institutional standardisation of MA. First of all, it shows how six variables are employed in the composition of dialogues for two original Moroccan series and two Turkish series dubbed in MA. In the Moroccan series, the assignment of different features to different characters results in the enregisterment of a linguistic opposition between two social types, distinguished by their attachment to place of origin and attitude vis-à-vis modernity. In the dubbed series, standardisation is at issue in that the authors of the linguistic choices – be they the translators or the dubbers – usually select one single form to the exclusion of all other variants. If this selection of a MA norm is judged on the background of the enregisterment patterns identified in the dialogues of the Moroccan series, it then appears as though such norm favours a type of individual free from particularistic regional affiliations, and with a propensity for an anti-traditionalist and (western-like) modern lifestyle and way of thinking.

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电视小说中的摩洛哥阿拉伯语:将非本地化的个人提升为模范演讲者

摘要本文旨在阐明电视小说在摩洛哥阿拉伯语（MA）语言特征的指数再分配中所起的作用，以及这与媒体对MA非制度标准化的贡献之间的关系，它展示了在两个摩洛哥原创系列和两个用MA配音的土耳其系列的对话组成中如何使用六个变量。在摩洛哥系列中，将不同的特征分配给不同的人物，导致两种社会类型之间的语言对立被登记，其区别在于它们对起源地的依恋和对现代性的态度。在配音系列中，标准化是一个问题，因为语言选择的作者——无论是翻译人员还是配音员——通常选择一种形式，而排除所有其他变体。如果这种MA规范的选择是根据摩洛哥系列对话中确定的注册模式的背景来判断的，那么这种规范似乎有利于一种没有特殊地区背景的个人，并倾向于反传统主义和（类似西方的）现代生活方式和思维方式。

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International Journal of the Sociology of Language Arts and Humanities-Language and Linguistics

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期刊介绍： The International Journal of the Sociology of Language (IJSL) is dedicated to the development of the sociology of language as a truly international and interdisciplinary field in which various approaches – theoretical and empirical – supplement and complement each other, contributing thereby to the growth of language-related knowledge, applications, values and sensitivities. Five of the journal''s annual issues are topically focused, all of the articles in such issues being commissioned in advance, after acceptance of proposals. One annual issue is reserved for single articles on the sociology of language. Selected issues throughout the year also feature a contribution on small languages and small language communities.