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

By Chaoqun Lian

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1474449956
• ISBN13: 9781474449953
• Release Date: May 2022
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"