03228nam 2200613 a 450 991082697530332120200520144314.00-7486-8034-90-7486-9392-00-7486-8031-40-7486-8032-210.1515/9780748680320(CKB)2550000001111641(EBL)1353386(OCoLC)856870111(SSID)ssj0000999440(PQKBManifestationID)12424501(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000999440(PQKBWorkID)10942455(PQKB)11017136(UkCbUP)CR9780748680320(StDuBDS)EDZ0000173333(MiAaPQ)EBC1353386(DE-B1597)615199(DE-B1597)9780748680320(OCoLC)1291507164(EXLCZ)99255000000111164120130831d2013 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierArabic in the fray language ideology and cultural politics /Yasir SuleimanEdinburgh Edinburgh University Press20131 online resource (ix, 308 pages) digital, PDF file(s)Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).0-7486-3740-0 1-299-80282-6 Includes bibliographical references and index.Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- FIGURES -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- CHAPTER 1 LANGUAGE CONSTRUCTION AND LANGUAGE SYMBOLISM -- CHAPTER 2 (IN)IMITABILITY, (UN)TRANSLATABILITY AND INTER-GROUP STRIFE -- CHAPTER 3 FRAMING ARABIC: PARATEXTS, POETRY AND LANGUAGE IDEOLOGY -- CHAPTER 4 HYBRIDITY, LANGUAGE IDEOLOGY AND CULTURAL POLITICS -- CHAPTER 5 THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS: ARABIC, THOUGHT AND REALITY -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- IndexThe pre-modern period saw a background of inter-ethnic strife among Arabs and non-Arabs, mainly Persians. Starting from the symbolic and cognitive roles of language, Yasir Suleiman shows how discussions about the inimitability and (un)translatability of the Qur'an in this period were, at some deep level, concerned with issues of ethnic election. In this respect, theology and ethnicity emerge as partners in theorising language. Staying within the symbolic role of language, Suleiman goes on to investigate the role of paratexts and literary production in disseminating language ideologies and in cultural contestation. He shows how language symbolism is relevant to ideological debates about hybrid and cross-national literary production in the Arab milieu. In fact, language ideology appears to be everywhere, and a whole chapter is devoted to discussions of the cognitive role of language in linking thought to reality.Arabic languageSocial aspectsArabic languageSocial aspects.492.7EN 1620rvkSuleiman Yasir688788MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910826975303321Arabic in the fray1565798UNINA