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Examines language and identity in modern Egypt using theories from discourse analysis and sociolinguisticsGBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup(['ISBN:9780748689668','ISBN:9780748689651','ISBN:9780748689644']);How is language used in Egyptian public discourse to illuminate the collective identity of Egyptians? How does this identity relate to language form and content? Reem Bassiouney explores these questions by drawing on sources including newspaper articles, caricatures, blogs, patriotic songs, films, school textbooks, TV talk-shows, poetry and novelsAs well as furthering our understanding of the relationship between identity and language, this book yields insights about the intricate ways in which media and public discourse help shape and outline identity through linguistic processes.Key FeaturesOffers an in-depth study of identity in modern Egyptian public discourseFocuses on nationalist discourse before, during and after the Egyptian revolution of 2011Based on a broad, and representative selection of dataHelps us to decode and understand the messages put forward by the competing factions in Egyptian politics"

Reflects on the latest trends in the study of Arabic sociolinguistics New to this edition:A new chapter on Arabic critical sociolinguistics: the critical analysis of the field of sociolinguistics itself and its scholarly practicesExplains new theories such as language as a social construct, the relation between language and identity, stance, indexicality and translanguaging, with examples from areas not covered in the first editionDiscusses the political changes in the Arab world since 2011 and their impact on languageConsiders the role of new media in modifying theories and providing different kind of data for sociolinguistsThe second edition of Arabic Sociolinguistics offers an extended commentary on the important findings of new critical approaches to language and society in Arab-speaking countries. Following a recent wave of political upheavals in the Middle East, the book engages with latest academic works that relate language to power and conflict in the Arab world. In addition to thoroughly updated accounts of diglossia, code-switching, gender, language policy and language variation in the region, Reem Bassiouney discusses the most important recent development in the field - critical sociolinguistics - in a new dedicated chapter that challenges the tendency of applying Western linguistic methods and terms to superdiverse communities. By covering the key developments of linguistic theories and contexts with up-to-date examples to help explain the phenomena under discussion, this is the most comprehensive book on Arabic sociolinguistics today.Please note that Arabic Sociolinguistics is co-published by Georgetown University Press in the USA. If you in this area and are looking to buy a copy, or request a review or inspection copy, please direct orders and queries directly to them."

How is language used in Egyptian public discourse to illuminate the collective identity of Egyptians? How does this identity relate to language form and content? Reem Bassiouney explores these questions by drawing on sources including newspaper articles, caricatures, blogs, patriotic songs, films, school textbooks, TV talk-shows, poetry and novels As well as furthering our understanding of the relationship between identity and language, this book yields insights about the intricate ways in which media and public discourse help shape and outline identity through linguistic processes. Key Features Offers an in-depth study of identity in modern Egyptian public discourse Focuses on nationalist discourse before, during and after the Egyptian revolution of 2011 Based on a broad, and representative selection of data Helps us to decode and understand the messages put forward by the competing factions in Egyptian politics

Bassiouney talks about the politicizing of language that took place in Egypt before and after the January 25th revolution. It is no exaggeration to say that discussion of language always feeds into politics through identity construction. Egypt, like all Arab countries, is a diglossic community, a community in which two language codes exist, each with a different function: Standard Arabic and Egyptian colloquial Arabic. The linguistic situation in Egypt has been highlighted by non-linguists who sense the significance of language in forging an identity or denying one. Politics and language have never been more intertwined than at the time of the Egyptian revolution. Adapted from the source document.

This essay examines the use of language in the literature that discusses the diaspora, with concentration on one novel. The essay concentrates on the diglossic situation that prevails in the Arab world, in which there are two varieties, high and a low, each with a different function. The high variety in the Arab world is modern standard Arabic, and the low variety is the different vernaculars of different countries. The question posed is whether the novel analyzed reflects realistic linguistic choices in the parts of the protagonists or whether this literature projects a different reality with different rules and language choices. If the latter case is true, then language may be used as a tool to redefine reality and project different identities. The choice of standard or vernacular will in fact have a discourse function as well as a creative one.

This paper argues on the basis of empirical data that the definition of diglossia given by Ferguson (1964) does not take account of the overlap between the Η (high) and L (low) varieties in the Arabic language. My data consists of spoken contemporary Egyptian monologues. These monologues are taken from different walks of life. I analyse four monologues. Two are political speeches, which contrary to Ferguson's expectations are a mixture of Η and L, and two are monologues by two cultured Egyptians on television. From this overlap between Η and L, springs a phenomenon I call 'blending'. Blending is different from diglossic switching and code-switching, in that it does not have a discourse function, and does not seem to be as rational an act as code-switching (cf. Myers- Scotton 1998b, Gumperz 1982). I will give five examples of blended features from H and L. This phenomenon resists interpretation within the framework of 'diglossia' and challenges ideas about code-switching. Thus, it is interesting on its own right, as a phenomenon that can explain more about both diglossia and code-switching. If one applies the idea of Myers-Scotton (1997, 1998a), of a Matrix language, then one would indeed find problems with the existence of blending, since a lot of blended forms are system morphemes. Yet, one can ap­ply Myers-Scotton's recent idea of a composite matrix language (1998a) to the Egyptian community. However, this kind of diglossic-switching may be stable and the appearance of blending does not necessarily imply language change or death. To try to explain what goes on in the Egyptian community, I will define those features which characterise blending. I propose that there are two kinds of blending, ʻidiosyncratic' blending and ʻintrinsic' blending.