scholarly journals New Linguistic Soundings in Tunisia. Diaspora Returnees and the Political Parameters of Language Use

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Stéphanie Pouessel
Keyword(s):  
Language Use ◽  
The Political

Gender, identity, and the political economy of language: Anglophone wives in Tunisia

1996 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 515-555 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keith Walters
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Gender Identity ◽  
Language Use ◽  
Family Relations ◽  
The Political ◽  
Speech Community ◽  
Mixed Marriages ◽  
A Site ◽  
Political Economy Of Language ◽  
Tunisian Arabic

ABSTRACTUsing the frameworks of the political economy of language, and of language use as acts of identity, this study attempts to describe and analyze the situation of natively anglophone wives living with their Tunisian husbands in Tunisia – a speech community characterized by Arabic diglossia and Arabic/French bilingualism. Particular attention is devoted to these women's beliefs about using Tunisian Arabic (TA), the native language of their husbands, and the ways in which access to TA or the use of it becomes a site of conflict between husbands and wives, or mothers and children, in these mixed marriages. (Gender, identity, political economy of language, ideology, Tunisia, Arabic, francophonie, diglossia, code-switching, bilingualism, multilingualism, family relations)

Korpuslinguistische Analysen zu den Plenardebatten des Deutschen Bundestages zwischen 2005 und 2009

2011 ◽  
Vol 55 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sebastian Bopp
Keyword(s):  
Political Parties ◽  
Computational Linguistics ◽  
Language Use ◽  
Discourse Theory ◽  
The Political ◽  
The Public ◽  
Political Linguistics ◽  
German Bundestag

AbstractPolitical linguistics is underrepresented in contemporary linguistics research for different reasons. In this article, the author outlines how discourse theory and computational linguistics can be applied to political linguistics to make it more relevant again to both linguistics community and the public. To that end, findings concerning the language use of the political parties in the German Bundestag between 2005 and 2009 are presented.

scholarly journals New Perspectives in the Israel-Palestine Conflict: Righting the Wrong through metaphor in Mornings in Jenin

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (6) ◽  
pp. 132
Author(s):  
Khaled Abkar Alkodimi
Keyword(s):  
Language Use ◽  
The Political ◽  
Diplomatic Relations ◽  
The Novel ◽  
World Opinion ◽  
Literary Metaphor ◽  
Almost All ◽  
Literary Devices ◽  
Literary Techniques ◽  
Israeli Occupation

Majority of world opinion today is critical of Israel’s role in the current standoff with Palestine fueled by the illegitimate occupation of the West Bank, depriving millions of Palestinians of their homeland. Yet, almost all non-Islamic countries maintain diplomatic relations with Israel, recognizing it as a country. The plight of the Palestinians, especially the children uprooted from their homes and forced to lead lives of depravation as refugees as a result of Israeli occupation has become a subject for insightful writings by many writers and critics, including Abulhawa who in Mornings in Jenin, skillfully employs language to showcase not the political tragedy (though it operates as the background) but the personal one. This paper textually analyzes Abulhawa’s Mornings in Jenin to explore the author’s use of the literary metaphor to expose not only the reality in Palestine, but more importantly, the horror of Israeli violence against Palestinians, trauma both physical and psychological. The study further highlights how the author raises a significant question: Who is the real terrorist in Palestine? The findings show that the novel utilizes several literary techniques to bring forth Israeli terrorism and Palestinian agony under Israeli occupation. Via language use, Abulhawa concludes that it’s the Israeli occupation, brutality and aggression that leads to Palestinian resistance/terrorism. Mornings in Jenin, in other words, is an attempt by Susan Abulhawa to justify the means of resistance concluding that Israel is the actual terrorist and not the Palestinians who have a ‘just cause’ to resist Zionist colonization. What is remarkable is her ingenuous use of literary devices to achieve the desired effect on the readers.

scholarly journals ANALISIS WACANA KRITIS STRATEGI POLITIK PENGGUNAAN BAHASA DALAM PIDATO PRESIDEN SUSILO BAMBANG YUDHOYONO

LITERA ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Endang Sumarti
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Language Use ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Analysis Approach ◽  
The Political ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Political Strategy ◽  
Figures Of Speech

This study on the political strategy in the language use in Susilo BambangYudhoyono’s speeches is focused on the language behaviors. The data were collected from the internet sources containing his speeches in several occasions with regard to political policies during his presidency. The data were analyzed using the critical discourse analysis approach. The results show that his political strategy in the language use is reflected in the uses of words, sentences, and figures of speech. The language use helps public understandings of the conditions that Indonesian people are now facing and supports his presidency. From the language praxis, his political strategy in the language use is relevant to language behaviors in general.

scholarly journals Langue de bois, or, discourse in defense of an offshore financial center

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Samuel Weeks
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Language Use ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Rationality ◽  
The Social ◽  
Financial Center ◽  
Language Strategies

Abstract This article brings together trends in Critical Discourse Analysis dating from the 1980s – which examine how language use and ideologies (re)produce social inequality – with current research in the social sciences on neoliberalism and other emerging politico-economic formations. The article addresses such a problematic with an empirical case: the language strategies, dubbed langue de bois, that people affiliated with Luxembourg’s offshore financial center employ to justify their practices. The contribution herein surveys the political rationality of the country’s financial center by analyzing the langue de bois that its representatives and boosters use. These language strategies, furthermore, enable Luxembourg’s finance elites to socialize the domestic public’s understanding of their activities.

Language use in socialist context by the example of description of the 1st May – Labour Day

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 ◽  
pp. 45-61
Author(s):  
Adriana Dănilă
Keyword(s):  
Language Use ◽  
Political Authority ◽  
The Political ◽  
Media Content ◽  
The Media

The present paper aims to analyze journalistic texts, that were published in the German GDR-newspaper Neues Deutschland on Labour Day 1st May 1949. The texts serve the political authority as an instrument of legitimation of its own ideology and as an instrument to control and influence the crowd of people. The enhancement of socialist worldview and the denigration of others thinking are processed and conveyed by means of language; the media content and the language use are ordered and controlled by the political authority.

Exile Meets Homeland: Politics, Performance, and Authenticity in the Tibetan Diaspora

10.1068/d2805 ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 648-667 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emily T Yeh
Keyword(s):  
Identity Formation ◽  
Language Use ◽  
Traditional Culture ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Political ◽  
Dominant Group ◽  
Tibetan Diaspora ◽  
Everyday Practices ◽  
The Usa

Tibetans are often imagined as authentic, pure, and geographically undifferentiated, but Tibetan identity formation is, in fact, varied and deeply inflected by national location and transnational trajectories. In this paper I examine the frictions of encounter between three groups of Tibetans who arrived in the USA around the same time, but who differ in their relationships to the homeland. The numerically dominant group consists of refugees who left Tibet in 1959 and of exiles born in South Asia; second are Tibetans who left Tibet after the 1980s for India and Nepal; and third are those whose routes have taken them from Tibet directly to the United States. Whereas the cultural authority claimed by long-term exiles derives from the notion of preserving tradition outside of Tibet, that of Tibetans from Tibet is based on their embodied knowledge of the actual place of the homeland. Their struggles over authenticity, which play out in everyday practices such as language use and embodied reactions to staged performances of ‘traditional culture’, call for an understanding of diaspora without guarantees. In this paper I use habitus as an analytic for exploring the ways in which identity is inscribed on and read off of bodies, and the political stakes of everyday practices that produce fractures and fault lines.

Language planning in Kazakhstan

2014 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
pp. 42-57
Author(s):  
Assel Akzhigitova ◽  
Sholpan Zharkynbekova
Keyword(s):  
Growth Rate ◽  
Language Use ◽  
Language Planning ◽  
Russian Empire ◽  
Capital City ◽  
The Political ◽  
Linguistic Landscape ◽  
National Consciousness ◽  
The Russian Empire ◽  
Political Economic

The political, economic and sociocultural changes that took place after the break-up of the USSR continue to impact the linguistic landscape of Kazakhstan. The historical linkages to the Russian Empire and then the USSR, both of which were characterized by policies of Russification, have resulted in the existence of a highly multilingual society that features widespread bilingualism in Kazakh and Russian. The on-going bilingualism in Kazakhstan continues to significantly affect the growth rate of the national consciousness and the identity of Kazakh society. The focus of the study reported in this article was to understand how the complex pattern of language planning programs is reflected in the linguistic landscape of Kazakhstan and particularly in Astana, the new capital city, by examining how visual public signs (ergonyms) indicate the heterogeneous characteristics of the society and how different agencies work on the problems of language use and attitudes in the country.

Language Attitudes at the Handover

1997 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 191-210 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ken Hyland
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Language Use ◽  
Language Attitudes ◽  
Mainland China ◽  
Language And Identity ◽  
The Political ◽  
High Status ◽  
Official Language ◽  
Considerable Impact

Britain's 150 year colonial administration of Hong Kong came to an end in June 1997 when the territory reverted to Chinese sovereignty. Because the fate of languages is closely related to the power of different groups in a society, this constitutional transition raises important issues of language and identity. At present English continues to play an important role in business and administration while Cantonese is the lingua franca of a highly cohesive and independent community. However, the extent to which the colonial language is a component of the Territory's identity, and the prospect of it retaining an influential role, remains to be seen. Reunification is likely to have a considerable impact on language attitudes and use with Putonghua, the official language of mainland China, emerging to challenge English and Cantonese as a high status language in public domains. This paper builds on previous studies by Pierson et al. (1980) and Pennington & Yue (1994) to examine the changing language attitudes brought about by the handover. A questionnaire was administered to 900 Hong Kong undergraduates to discover students' perspectives on language and cultural identity, social, affective and instrumental attitudes and general predictions for language use with a view towards the political transition.

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