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

      Author: Lian Chaoqun  (Department of Arabic Language and Culture, School of Foreign Languages, Peking University)

      Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

      Published on: 2020-06-30

      ISBN: 9781474449946

      Pages：288

      Brief Introduction:

     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 modernization. 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.