Carol Ready

List of John Benjamins publications in which Carol Ready is involved.

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Sociolinguistic Approaches to Arabic and Spanish in Contact

Edited by Farah Ali, Carol Ready and Sherez Mohamed

This volume brings together empirical research in sociolinguistics that focuses on Arabic and Spanish contact across different geopolitical, sociocultural, and digital spaces. Bridging historical and modern sociolinguistic perspectives, this volume challenges the marginalization of Arabic-Spanish… read more

[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 44] 2025. vii, 222 pp.

Articles

Mohamed, Sherez, Carol Ready and Farah Ali 2025 Chapter 7. Religion and language maintenance among Arabic-Spanish bilinguals in Puerto Rico Sociolinguistic Approaches to Arabic and Spanish in Contact, Ali, Farah, Carol Ready and Sherez Mohamed (eds.), pp. 124–142 | Chapter

This chapter explores the often-overlooked influence of religious identity on language maintenance and shift in the Arabic-Spanish bilingual community in Puerto Rico. Previous research in Hispanic sociolinguistics, as compared to Arabic sociolinguistics, has rarely focused on religion as a… read more

Ready, Carol 2025 Chapter 1. Introduction Sociolinguistic Approaches to Arabic and Spanish in Contact, Ali, Farah, Carol Ready and Sherez Mohamed (eds.), pp. 1–6 | Chapter

Ready, Carol 2018 Maintaining the status quo: Diglossia and the case of Arabic language policy in Ceuta Language Problems and Language Planning 42:2, pp. 173–195 | Article

Arabic is considered one of the defining cases of diglossia (Ferguson, 1959; Sayahi, 2014). Despite previous scholars’ critiques that the construct of diglossia perpetuates linguistic and societal inequalities, few studies have examined how this seminal construct has been enacted in language… read more