A War of Words

Informationen zum Autor Yasir Suleiman is Professor of Arabic and Middle Eastern Studies, and Director of the Edinburgh Institute for the Advanced Study of the Arab World and Islam at the University of Edinburgh. His publications include The Arabic Language and National Identity: A Study in Ideology (2003) and The Arabic Grammatical Tradition: a Study in Ta'liil (1999). Klappentext Yasir Suleiman considers national identity in relation to language! the way in which language can be manipulated to signal political! cultural or historical difference. As a language with a long-recorded heritage spoken by the majority of peoples in the Middle East! Arabic is a particularly appropriate language to study and provides a penetrating means of exploring the conflicts of the Middle East. Zusammenfassung Suleiman's 2004 book considers national identity in relation to language! the way in which language - in this case the Arabic language - can be manipulated to signal political! cultural or historical difference. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction; 2. Language, power and conflict in the Middle East; 3. When language and dialects collide: standard Arabic and its 'opponents'; 4. When dialects collide: on the banks of the River Jordan; 5. When languages collide: between the River Jordan and the Mediterranean sea; 6. Language and conflict in the Middle East: a conclusion.

Product details

• Authors: Yasir Suleiman, Yasir (University of Edinburgh) Suleiman
• Assisted by: Julia A. Clancy-Smith (Editor), Charles Tripp (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 07.04.2004
• EAN: 9780521546560
• ISBN: 978-0-521-54656-0
• Dimensions: 151 mm x 228 mm x 18 mm
• Series: Cambridge Middle East Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general)