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Author Sinatora, Francesco L., author.

Title Language, identity, and Syrian political activism on social media / Francesco L. Sinatora
Published Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2020
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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 186 pages)
Series Routledge studies in language and identity
Routledge studies in language and identity.
Contents Hybridity on Syrian dissidents' social media -- Hybridity and cosmopolitan identities -- Hybridity and dissident identities -- Hybridity and participation -- Hybridity, secular identities and radical Islamic discourse -- Hybridity and erasure
Summary "Language, Identity, and Syrian Political Activism on Social Media is an empirical contemporary Arabic sociolinguistic investigation informed by theories and notions developed in the fields of Arabic linguistics, sociolinguistics, discourse analysis and linguistic anthropology. Building on the Bakhtinian concept of linguistic hybridity, this book conducts a longitudinal analysis of Syrian dissidents' social media practices between 2009 and 2017. It shows how dissidents have used social media to emerge in the discourse about the Syrian conflict and how language has been used symbolically as a tool of social and political engagement in an increasingly complex sociopolitical context. This monograph is ideal for students, sociolinguists and researchers interested in Arabic language and identity"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Francesco L. Sinatora is Assistant Professor of Arabic at the Department of Classical and Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at The George Washington University in Washington DC. His academic research in Arabic sociolinguistics and discourse analysis focuses on political discourse and identity on Syrian social media, integrating the tools of language ethnography and multimodality. Additionally, he has also developed a research interest in Arabic pedagogy
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on September 26, 2019)
Subject Social media -- Political aspects -- Syria
Arabic language -- Political aspects -- Syria
Sociolinguistics -- Syria
Arabic language -- Discourse analysis
Discourse analysis -- Political aspects -- Syria
Language and culture -- Syria
Dissenters -- Syria -- Language
FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY -- Arabic.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Journalism.
Arabic language -- Discourse analysis
Arabic language -- Political aspects
Discourse analysis -- Political aspects
Language and culture
Mass media and war
Social media -- Political aspects
Sociolinguistics
SUBJECT Syria -- History -- Civil War, 2011- -- Mass media and the war
Subject Syria
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2019025035
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