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

Chaoqun Lian

Published by Edinburgh University Press 2020

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

A Study of the Discourse of Arabic Language Academies

Chaoqun Lian

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474449960

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The first systematic survey of the language planning and language policy discourse of major Arabic language academies

Surveys the language planning and language policy discourse of the five major Arabic language academies in Syria, Egypt, Iraq, Morocco and Jorndan
Reveals the role of LPLP in constructing and negotiating sociopolitical meanings of language
Examines the discourse of Arabic language academies on diglossia, Arabi(ci)sation and language modernisation
Presents a comparative study of script Romanisation movements in China and the Arabic-speaking world
Explains a mechanism of language-ideology interface in the Arabic-speaking world
Offers a synthesis of theories and perspectives across disciplines to study sociopolitical dimensions of language

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.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
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1. Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
2. The Arabic Language Academy Phenomenon Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	17
3. Arabic Diglossia and Arab Nationalisms Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	48
4. Arabi(ci)sation and Counter-peripheralisation Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	105
5. Language Modernisation between Self and the Other Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	144
6. Conclusion: The Ideologisation of Language via Language Symbolism Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	197
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Language: English
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 264
Keywords: Language & Linguistics

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Published: March 24, 2022
ISBN: 9781474449960