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How is language used in Egyptian public discourse to express the collective identity of Egyptians? How does this identity relate to language form and content? Reem Bassiouney explores these questions by drawing on a broad selection of data, including newspaper articles, caricatures, blogs, patriotic songs, films, school textbooks, TV talk-shows, poetry and novels. As well as deepending their understanding of the relationship between identity and language in general, readers will gain insights about the intricate ways in which media and public discourse help shape and outline identity through linguistic processes.

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This is a timely book by a knowledgeable scholar who has a deep and sophisticated appreciation of the complexities of language and identity in Egypt. - Abbas Benmamoun, University of Illinois This study provides an interesting insight into the link between identity and language in a barely investigated diglossic context, combining sociolinguistics and discourse analysis. -- Carmen Ebner, anguage In Society

This is a timely book by a knowledgeable scholar who has a deep and sophisticated appreciation of the complexities of language and identity in Egypt. - Abbas Benmamoun, University of Illinois This study provides an interesting insight into the link between identity and language in a barely investigated diglossic context, combining sociolinguistics and discourse analysis. -- Carmen Ebner, Language In Society Bassiouney's good command of both Arabic and English, sophisticated understanding of sociolinguistics, deep insight into the linguistic subtleties and discursive nuances of the data analyzed, and sound theoretical proposals presented render this book an indispensable reference to any researcher interested in the ways in which language plays a role in constructing national identity particularly in linguistically complex environments. -- Multilingua [Reem Bassiouney's] work tackles exciting and complex issues through the analysis of a rich and diverse corpus. There are few books that put on the same level of analysis of popular songs, TV shows, newspaper articles, novels, and political speeches...This book will certainly remain one of the important references in the field of studies of linguistic ideologies in the Arab world. -- Catherine Miller, Revue des mondes musulmans et de la Mediterranee

This is a timely book by a knowledgeable scholar who has a deep and sophisticated appreciation of the complexities of language and identity in Egypt. - Abbas Benmamoun, University of Illinois This study provides an interesting insight into the link between identity and language in a barely investigated diglossic context, combining sociolinguistics and discourse analysis. -- Carmen Ebner, Language In Society Bassiouney's good command of both Arabic and English, sophisticated understanding of sociolinguistics, deep insight into the linguistic subtleties and discursive nuances of the data analyzed, and sound theoretical proposals presented render this book an indispensable reference to any researcher interested in the ways in which language plays a role in constructing national identity particularly in linguistically complex environments. -- Multilingua [Reem Bassiouney's] work tackles exciting and complex issues through the analysis of a rich and diverse corpus. There are few books that put on the same level of analysis of popular songs, TV shows, newspaper articles, novels, and political speeches...This book will certainly remain one of the important references in the field of studies of linguistic ideologies in the Arab world. -- Catherine Miller, Revue des mondes musulmans et de la M diterran e

This is a timely book by a knowledgeable scholar who has a deep and sophisticated appreciation of the complexities of language and identity in Egypt. - Abbas Benmamoun, University of Illinois

This is a timely book by a knowledgeable scholar who has a deep and sophisticated appreciation of the complexities of language and identity in Egypt. - Abbas Benmamoun, University of Illinois This study provides an interesting insight into the link between identity and language in a barely investigated diglossic context, combining sociolinguistics and discourse analysis. -- Carmen Ebner, Language In Society Bassiouney's good command of both Arabic and English, sophisticated understanding of sociolinguistics, deep insight into the linguistic subtleties and discursive nuances of the data analyzed, and sound theoretical proposals presented render this book an indispensable reference to any researcher interested in the ways in which language plays a role in constructing national identity particularly in linguistically complex environments. -- Multilingua [Reem Bassiouney's] work tackles exciting and complex issues through the analysis of a rich and diverse corpus. There are few books that put on the same level of analysis of popular songs, TV shows, newspaper articles, novels, and political speeches...This book will certainly remain one of the important references in the field of studies of linguistic ideologies in the Arab world. -- Catherine Miller, Revue des mondes musulmans et de la Mediterranee

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Reem Bassiouney (DPhil, Oxon.) is Associate Professor of Linguistics at The American University of Cairo. Her academic books include, Functions of Code-Switching in Egypt (2006), Arabic Sociolinguistics (2008), Arabic and the Media (2010), Arabic Language and Linguistics 2012 (co-ed). Her research and publications focus on topics in Arabic sociolingusitics, including code-switching, language and gender, leveling, register, language policy, and discourse analysis. She is also an award winning novelist.

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