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

Language, Politics and Society in the Middle East : : Essays in Honour of Yasir Suleiman / / Yonatan Mendel, Abeer AlNajjar.

Explores the dynamic relationships between language, politics and society in the Middle EastPublished 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...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2018
VerfasserIn:
Mendel, Yonatan,
AlNajjar, Abeer,
MitwirkendeR:
Abdelhay, Ashraf,
Aboelezz, Mariam,
AlNajjar, Abeer,
Amara, Muhammad,
Bassiouney, Reem,
Dallashi, Maisalon,
Davies, Eirlys,
Issa, Rana,
Joseph, John E.,
Lian, Chaoqun,
Makoni, Sinfree,
Mendel, Yonatan,
Ryding, Karin Christina,
Shiri, Sonia,
Place / Publishing House:Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]
©2018
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (256 p.) :; 4 B/W tables 2 B/W line art
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Figures and Tables
  • Acknowledgements
  • Foreword: About Professor Yasir Suleiman
  • Introduction: Words, Language, Message
  • 1. The Hauntology of Language and Identity
  • 2. Transcultural Content and Translingual Refl ection: Rethinking the Arabic Language Learning Experience
  • 3. Metaphorical Recurrence and Language Symbolism in Arabic Metalanguage Discourse
  • 4. Colloquial Moroccan Arabic: Shifts in Usage and Attitudes in the Era of Computer-mediated Communication
  • 5. ‘Arabic is Under Threat’: Language Anxiety as a Discourse on Identity and Confl ict
  • 6. Code Choice, Place and Identity in Egypt: Evidence from Two Novels
  • 7. Language as Proxy in Egypt’s Identity Politics: Examining the New Wave of Egyptian Nationalism
  • 8. Rakākah and the Petit Quarrel of 1871: Christian Authors and the Competition over Arabic
  • 9. Orchestrating Multimodal Protest and Subverting Banal Nationalism in the Linguistic Landscape of the Tunisian Revolution
  • 10. The Arab Jews and the Arabic Language in Israel: An Ongoing Ambivalence between Positive Nostalgia and Negative Present
  • 11. War Names in the Arab–Israeli Confl ict: A Comparative Study
  • About the Contributors
  • Index

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