Publication

2012

This paper examines the relationship between the form of the Arab language used in online writing and the messages being conveyed. The suggestion is that away from the censorship of state media and the press, writers are free to use dialectal forms of the language for a freer, more direct approach to their readers, which has been more effective in communicating their message than the use of Classical or Modern Standard Arabic would have been.

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