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SUMMARY:The 2018 John and Mary Bennett Lecture - Arabic Language Ideology:
  A Case of Language Anxiety? - Professor Yasir Suleiman Malley\, Doha Inst
 itute for Graduate Studies
DTSTART:20181115T171500Z
DTEND:20181115T190000Z
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CONTACT:Dr Charis Olszok
DESCRIPTION:Language ideology is rarely invoked in studying Arabic owing t
 o the slippery nature of this concept and its historical connotations of 
 ‘false consciousness’ that is rooted in its Marxist origins. This pers
 pective has restricted the kind of data that can be used to link Arabic to
  its socio-political context. It has also occluded the possibility of link
 ing language attitudes to perceptions of external danger and internal coll
 usion that are prevalent in Arabic modern discourse. Considering these per
 ceptions as a case of language anxiety that is prevalent in most cultures\
 , the paper will argue that what seems to the Arabs to be language specifi
 c is in fact a universal phenomenon. More specifically\, the paper will sh
 ow how book titles\, as paratexts\, constitute an arena for articulating A
 rabic language ideology and Arab anxiety about Arabic.\n
LOCATION:McCrum Lecture Theatre\, Corpus Christi College\, Cambridge\, CB2
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