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Language, Ideology and Sociopolitical Change in the Arabic-speaking World : A Study of the Discourse of Arabic Language Academies / Chaoqun Lian.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©2020Description: 1 online resource (264 p.)Content type:
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  • 9781474449946
  • 9781474449960
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  • 306.44953 23
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures and Tables -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Arabic Language Academy Phenomenon -- 3. Arabic Diglossia and Arab Nationalisms -- 4. Arabi(ci)sation and Counter-peripheralisation -- 5. Language Modernisation between Self and the Other -- 6. Conclusion: The Ideologisation of Language via Language Symbolism -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: The first systematic survey of the language planning and language policy discourse of major Arabic language academiesSurveys the language planning and language policy discourse of the five major Arabic language academies in Syria, Egypt, Iraq, Morocco and JorndanReveals the role of LPLP in constructing and negotiating sociopolitical meanings of languageExamines the discourse of Arabic language academies on diglossia, Arabi(ci)sation and language modernisationPresents a comparative study of script Romanisation movements in China and the Arabic-speaking worldExplains a mechanism of language-ideology interface in the Arabic-speaking worldOffers a synthesis of theories and perspectives across disciplines to study sociopolitical dimensions of languageThis book offers a critical interpretation of how the meta-linguistic LPLP discourse of major Arabic language academies from the turn of the twentieth century until the present day continuously ‘burden’ language with extra-linguistic, sociopolitical meanings, making it a proxy for the protracted courses of national identity negotiation, counter-peripheralisation in the modern world-system and modernisation. Integrating theories of language symbolism, language indexicality, LPLP, habitus, banal nationalism, world-system and perspectives of Critical Discourse Analysis, the book develops our understanding of the phenomenon and mechanism of the entanglement between language, ideology and sociopolitical change in the Arabic-speaking world and beyond.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures and Tables -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Arabic Language Academy Phenomenon -- 3. Arabic Diglossia and Arab Nationalisms -- 4. Arabi(ci)sation and Counter-peripheralisation -- 5. Language Modernisation between Self and the Other -- 6. Conclusion: The Ideologisation of Language via Language Symbolism -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index

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The first systematic survey of the language planning and language policy discourse of major Arabic language academiesSurveys the language planning and language policy discourse of the five major Arabic language academies in Syria, Egypt, Iraq, Morocco and JorndanReveals the role of LPLP in constructing and negotiating sociopolitical meanings of languageExamines the discourse of Arabic language academies on diglossia, Arabi(ci)sation and language modernisationPresents a comparative study of script Romanisation movements in China and the Arabic-speaking worldExplains a mechanism of language-ideology interface in the Arabic-speaking worldOffers a synthesis of theories and perspectives across disciplines to study sociopolitical dimensions of languageThis book offers a critical interpretation of how the meta-linguistic LPLP discourse of major Arabic language academies from the turn of the twentieth century until the present day continuously ‘burden’ language with extra-linguistic, sociopolitical meanings, making it a proxy for the protracted courses of national identity negotiation, counter-peripheralisation in the modern world-system and modernisation. Integrating theories of language symbolism, language indexicality, LPLP, habitus, banal nationalism, world-system and perspectives of Critical Discourse Analysis, the book develops our understanding of the phenomenon and mechanism of the entanglement between language, ideology and sociopolitical change in the Arabic-speaking world and beyond.

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