Vers une standardisation de l’arabe marocain ?

Abstract

The contribution deals with a specific mix of languages, especially a mix of Modern Classical Arabic (fuṣḥā) and Moroccan Arabic (dariža) as it is practiced in Moroccan audio-visual media. First, the terms of fuṣḥā and dariža are presented within the Arabic language typology and they are contextualized in the Moroccan sociolinguistic landscape. Then, we discuss these ‘mixed-styles’ (Mejdell 2006) on a corpus put together from programs broadcast on Moroccan TV channels. We focus on the formal and syntactic characteristics of this language practice, in particular on the tense-aspect-mood markers. The question is how to know if these ‘mixed-styles’ develop into a norm, a standard that is required in formal oral situations.

Keywords

• Standard Arabic
• Moroccan Arabic
• mixed-styles
• norm