Language, Ideology and Sociopolitical Change in the Arabic-Speaking World

A Study of the Discourse of Arabic Language Academies

von Chaoqun Lian

264 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

This 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.

• Themen: Geschichte und Archäologie Geschichte Geschichte des Nahen und Mittleren Ostens
• ISBN: 9781474449946
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 08.07.2020
• Größe: 234 x 155 mm
• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press