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Mixed styles in spoken Arabic in Egypt : somewhere between order and chaos
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ISSN: 00818461 ISBN: 9004149864 9789004149861 9786611399009 1281399000 9047408985 9789047408987 9781281399007 6611399003 Year: 2006 Volume: 48 Publisher: Leiden ; Boston : Brill,

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This volume deals with the linguistic behaviour of Egyptian academics in a specific setting: the panel presentation - assumed to represent a discourse genre, to which speakers will respond with some kind of similar stylistic norm, reflected in linguistic choices among variants of a feature. The features selected for investigation are: complementizers, demonstratives, negation, relatives, and pronoun suffixation - all of which have binary variants in the two basic codes available to the speaker, the standard variety and the vernacular. The use of the variants is discussed for each speaker and across speakers, demonstrating certain patterns of distribution (order), but also a high degree of variable usage (chaos). The investigation is set in a wider comparative sociolinguistic framework.


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Reviews of National Policies for Education: Higher Education in Egypt 2010
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ISBN: 1282572652 9786612572654 9264084347 9264077235 Year: 2010 Publisher: Paris : OECD Publishing,

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In recent years, the Government of Egypt has driven major reforms for modernising the country. However, Egypt’s higher education system has remained largely unchanged and without fundamental reform of the sector the country will face difficulties in improving its competitiveness. This independent review of Egypt’s higher education system focuses on areas in need of attention by policy makers and stakeholders, including system steering and institutional governance; student access to higher education; educational quality and effectiveness; research, development and innovation; and finance. It contains an analysis of the system and valuable recommendations which, taken together, represent a major programme of structural and cultural reform of Egyptian higher education over the decade to 2020.

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