Language, Ideology and Sociopolitical Change in the Arabic-Speaking World: A Study of the Discourse of Arabic Language Academies (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781474449953)

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.

Author: Chaoqun Lian
ISBN-10: 1474449956
ISBN-13: 9781474449953
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Language: English
Published: 05/30/2022
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.82lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.55d