Title:
Arabic, self and identity : a study in conflict and displacement / Yasir Suleiman.
Main Entry:
Suleiman, Yasir.
Publisher:
Oxford University P.,
Publication Date:
c2011.
Publication Place:
Oxford ; New York :
ISBN:
9780199747009 (pbk.)
Subject:
Anthropological linguistics -- Arab countries.
Sociolinguistics -- Arab countries.
Language and culture -- Arab countries.
Ethnicity -- Arab countries.
Contents:
Introduction -- Seven fault zones and beyond: some methodological considerations. A landscape of seven fault zones -- Beyond the fault zones -- Arabic, self and autoethnography. From collective identity to the self -- Using the fu', marking the self -- Banning code-switching, marking the self -- Conclusion : Arabic, self and autoethnography -- Arabic, self and displacement. Arabic, self and displacement: out of place, between languages -- Language, self and displacement : identity and gender -- Language, war and trauma : from despotism to freedom -- Language, self and globalisation -- Language and self : displacement, trauma and globalization -- Names, identity and conflict. "What's in a name?" -- Personal names : shared values and shared identities -- Personal names, identity and modernization -- Personal names, identity and conflict -- Personal names, identity and the diaspora -- Personal names, identity and socio-political history -- Toponyms, identity and conflict -- Linguistic landscape, identity and modernity -- Code-names, identity and conflict -- Conclusion : names, identity and conflict -- Conclusion.
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