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Record Nr.

UNINA9910827579503321

Autore

Dunne Michele Durocher

Titolo

Democracy in contemporary Egyptian political discourse / / Michele Durocher Dunne

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins, c2003

ISBN

1-282-15997-6

9786612159978

90-272-9476-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (ix, 178 pages)

Collana

Discourse approaches to politics, society, and culture, , 1569-9463 ; ; v. 6

Soggetti

Democracy - Egypt

Egypt Politics and government 1981-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Democracy in Contemporary Egyptian Political Discourse; Editorial page; Title page; LCC page; Acknowledgements; Table of contents; List of Tables; Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Political talk as mediated discourse; Chapter 3 Situating the Discourse; Chapter 4 Identities under construction; Chapter 6 Conclusion; References; Appendix A Transliteration and transcription key; Appendix B Excerpt from Mubarak speech; Appendix C Excerpt from Mubarak speech delivered; Appendix D September petition text; Appendix E Excerpts from two articles by Fahmi Huwaydi

Sommario/riassunto

When politicians and pundits in the Middle East discuss democracy, do they mean it? Looking at public discourse about democracy in contemporary Egypt, Dunne proposes a fresh way of reading Arabic political discourse. She charts a method combining ethnographic research into communities of people producing political discourse with investigation of the texts themselves, using tools from anthropology, pragmatics, and sociolinguistics -- a method with broad applicability to political discourse generally.