Arabization of English: A Study of the Appropriating Linguistic Strategies in the Academic and Media Discourses in Saudi Arabia

Abstract

In any contact zone, where the two or more languages and cultures intersect, there would be thelinguistic hybridity and cultural syncreticity. Hence, in such perspective, this study is an attempt to investigate theArabization of English language in Saudi Arabia. This study delimits to the reconstitution ofEnglish language onthe linguistic and textual modes of theArabic language. Likewise, the indigenous writers of Saudi Arabia both inthe academia and media install the lexical innovation, and code-mixing in their discourses in order to foregroundthe richness repertoire of their mother tongue (Arabic).The researcher investigates the selected discourses from theSaudi English Print media and Academic settings in the framework of the appropriating discourse theory.Accordingly, the researcher recommends to the second language learners of Saudi Arabia to take the Englishlanguage as an alternative instrument in order to disseminate their distinctive ideological and Arab cultural normsfor the wider readership as well as to dispel the misconception of Islam and Arab Muslims across the Globe.