Language, Identity, and Syrian Political Activism on Social Media

ISBN-13: 9781138335813 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 186 str.

Francesco L. Sinatora

Opis

Language, Identity, and Syrian Political Activism on Social Media is an empirical contemporary Arabic sociolinguistic investigation informed by theories and notions developed in the fields of Arabic linguistics, sociolinguistics, discourse analysis and linguistic anthropology.

Spis treści

Transcription, glosses, and transliteration | Chapter 1: Introduction | Chapter 2: Hybridity on syrian dissidents’ social media | Chapter 3: Hybridity and cosmopolitan identities | Chapter 4: Hybridity and dissident identities | Chapter 5: Hybridity and participation | Chapter 6: Hybridity, secular identities and radical Islamic discourse | Chapter 7: Hybridity and erasure | Chapter 8: Conclusions

O autorze

Francesco L. Sinatora is Assistant Professor of Arabic at the Department of Classical and Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at The George Washington University in Washington DC. His academic research in Arabic sociolinguistics and discourse analysis focuses on political discourse and identity on Syrian social media, integrating the tools of language ethnography and multimodality. Additionally, he has also developed a research interest in Arabic pedagogy.