Contesti pluriglossici: le varietà dell’arabo  e il loro uso nei social media

Marco Aurelio Golfetto

doi:10.54103/2035-7680/26409

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Marco Aurelio Golfetto Università degli Studi di Milano,University of Milan https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2235-2835

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https://doi.org/10.54103/2035-7680/26409

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Arabic didactics; Arabic linguistics; social media; MSA; Arabic culture

Abstract

This article presents a teaching activity carried out as part of the TikTok Mundi internship. The paper, which is addressed to an audience that is not specialised in the specific discipline, opens by outlining the linguistic and geographical boundaries of the ‘Arabic world’, emphasizing the need for critical reflection on the related – distinct yet interrelated – concepts of linguistic and cultural domains. It offers sociolinguistic remarks on the pluriglossic reality of the Arabic world, on the variants of Arabic, and on common language devices, such as code-mixing and code-switching. Finally, it considers the use of social media by the young segment of the population of Arab countries and how they use different language varieties, also considering some social implications and the modifications that this context of use may induce in the language itself.

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Marco Aurelio Golfetto, Università degli Studi di Milano,University of Milan

Marco Aurelio Golfetto, dopo il dottorato in Culture, tradizioni e società arabo-islamiche conseguito all’Università Ca’ Foscari e la specializzazione sperimentale SSIS nell’insegnamento dell’arabo, svolge ricerca sulla glottodidattica dell’arabo all’Università degli Studi di Milano. Il suo focus sono i bisogni specifici degli apprendenti e i linguaggi settoriali, dell’amministrazione e della politica. Si occupa inoltre di cultura araba con particolare attenzione alla storia del pensiero e alla tradizione islamica in epoca premoderna. Ha all’attivo contributi sulla lingua e sulla glottodidattica in riviste nazionali e internazionali e una curatela sul collegamento tra lingua e politica in corso di pubblicazione (Routledge, 2025). Ha pubblicato articoli sulla tradizione islamica, la traduzione annotata dell’opera di una autorità islamica di epoca abbaside (Leone Verde, 2007) e l’edizione critica di un testo di ambito mistico medievale (Brill, 2024).

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Multiglossic contexts: varieties of Arabic and their use in social media

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