Language Conflict in Algeria

This book presents a detailed survey of language attitudes, conflicts and policies over the period from 1830, when the French occupied Algeria, up to 2012, the year this country celebrated its 50th anniversary of independence. It traces the evolution of language planning policies and reactions to them in both the colonial and post-colonial eras.

Mohamed Benrabah is Professor of English Linguistics and Sociolinguistics at Universite Grenoble 3, France. The author?s research interests include applied phonetics/phonology, sociolinguistics, and language management with a particular interest in the Anglophone, Arabophone and Francophone worlds. He has published two books (Langue et Pouvoir en Algerie. Histoire d?un Traumatisme Linguistique, Seguier, 1999; Devenir Langue Dominate Mondiale. Un Defi pour l?Arabe, Librairie Droz, 2009), a monograph, and more than fifty articles in journals and chapters in books.