1st Edition

Language, Identity, and Syrian Political Activism on Social Media

By Francesco L. Sinatora Copyright 2020
200 Pages 27 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

200 Pages 27 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

200 Pages 27 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

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... Read more

Transcription, glosses, and transliteration | Chapter 1: Introduction | Chapter 2: Hybridity on syrian dissidents’ social media | Chapter 3: Hybridity and cosmopolitan identities | Chapter 4: Hybridity and dissident identities | Chapter 5: Hybridity and participation | Chapter 6: Hybridity, secular identities and radical Islamic discourse | Chapter 7: Hybridity and erasure | Chapter 8: Conclusions

Biography

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.