Description about Requests in Saudi Pidgin Arabic | Chapter 10 | Modern Perspectives in Language, Literature and Education Vol. 8

 The goal of this research is to look at Saudi Pidgin Arabic (SPA), which is one of the linguistic varieties that has developed as a result of interactions between Saudis and Asian employees. Requestive phrases uttered by two generations of Saudi female speakers to female Asian workers in the cafeteria of a governmental institute in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, were studied linguistically and sociolinguistically. The study finds that the use of SPA is primarily limited to the most basic forms of verb and noun phrases found in Najdi Arabic, the SPA's lexifier language (which is spoken in the Arabian Peninsula's middle region). The tendency of younger participants to use English terms demonstrates the impact of English on the younger generation. A sociolinguistic analysis also demonstrates the influence of social characteristics such as power, status, social distance, and the requester's age.

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Hessah Al-Ageel
School of Global, Urban and Social Studies RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia.

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