Naima Boussofara Omar
Office Location: 12C Bailey Hall
Office Telephone: (785) 864-4448
E-mail: nomar@ku.edu





Positions

• Assistant Professor of Arabic Studies
• Director of Arabic Summer Institute in affliation with Al-Akhawayn University, Ifrane, Morocco
• Language Coordinator

Education

• Ph.D. Applied Linguistics, University of Texas at Austin
• M.Ed. Education, University of Exeter, The United Kingdom
• Diplôme de Fin d'Etudes Supérieures en Lettres Anglaises. Ecole Normale Supérieure, Tunis, Tunisia

Research Interests
Sociolinguistics

• Language Change and Language Variation in the Arab World
• Arabic Diglossic Switching in Political Discourse and in the Media
• Language Ideology and Linguistic Choices in Political Discourse in Tunisia

Applied Linguistics

• Teaching Arabic as a Foreign Language
• Impact of New Technology on Teaching Arabic as a Foreign Language

Publications

• Boussofara-Omar, Naima (2003). Revisiting Arabic Diglossic Switching in Light of the MLF and its Sub-Models: The 4-M Model and the Abstract Level Model. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition 6(1), 33-46.
  
  
• Boussofara-Omar, Naima (2005). Political Transition, Linguistic Shift: How a Political Communiqué (Bayaan) has Come to be What it is. Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics, XVII-XVII, eds. Mohammad T. Alhawary and Elabas Benmamoun, 195-224. Philadelphia and Amsterdam: J. Benjamins.
  
  
• Boussofara-Omar, Naima (2005). Learning the 'Linguistic Habitus' of a Politician: A Presidential Authoritative Voice in the Making. Journal of Language and Politics 4(3), 423-454. Philadelphia and Amsterdam: J. Benjamins.
  
  
• Boussofara-Omar, Naima (forthcoming, 2005). Diglossia. Encyclopedia of Arabic Language and Linguistics. Brill Academic Publishers, Ed. Mushira Eid.
  
  
• Boussofara-Omar, Naima (forthcoming, 2005). Neither Third language nor 'Middle Varieties' but Arabic Diglossic Switching. Zeitschrift für Arabische Linguistik/Journal of Arabic Linguistics.
  
  
• Boussofara-Omar, Naima (forthcoming). Diglossia as zones of contact in the media. Al'Arabiyya Journal.

Languages

• Tunisian Arabic (native dialect)
• Classical Arabic/Modern Standard Arabic
• English
• French

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