Language, Politics and Society in the Middle East: Essays in Honour of Yasir Suleiman

ISBN-13: 9781474421539 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 256 str.

Yonatan Mendel; Abeer Alnajjar

Opis

Published in honour of Professor Yasir Suleiman, this collection acknowledges his contribution to the field of language and society in general, and to that of language analysis of socio-political realities in the Middle East in particular.

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List of Figures and Tables; Acknowledgements; Foreword: About Yasir Suleiman, Carole Hillenbrand; Introduction, Yonatan Mendel & Abeer AlNajjar; 1. The Hauntology of Language and Identity, John E. Joseph; 2. Transcultural content and translingual reflection: Rethinking the Arabic language learning experience, Karin Christina Ryding; 3. Metaphorical recurrence and language symbolism in Arabic meta-language discourse, Chaoqun Lian; 4. Colloquial Moroccan Arabic: Shifts in usage and attitudes in the era of computer-mediated communication, Eirlys Davies; 5. ‘Arabic is under threat’: Language anxiety as a discourse on identity and conflict, Ashraf Abdelhay and Sinfree Makoni; 6. Code choice, place and identity in Egypt: Evidence from two novels, Reem Bassiouney; 7. Language as Proxy in Egypt’s Identity Politics: Examining the New Wave of Egyptian Nationalism, Mariam Aboelezz; 8. Rakākah and the Petit Quarrel of 1871: Christian Authors and the Competition over Arabic, Rana Hisham Issa; 9. Orchestrating Multimodal Protest and Subverting Banal Nationalism in the Linguistic Landscape of the Tunisian Revolution, Sonia Shiri; 10. The Arab Jews and the Arabic language in Israel: An Ongoing Ambivalence between Positive Nostalgia and Negative Present, Maisalon Dallashi; 11. War Names in the Arab-Israeli Conflict: A Comparative Study, Muhammad Amara; About the Contributors.