Democracy in Contemporary Egyptian Political DiscourseJohn Benjamins Publishing, 2003 M09 18 - 179 pages When politicians and pundits in the Middle East discuss democracy, do they mean it? Looking at public discourse about democracy in contemporary Egypt, Dunne proposes a fresh way of reading Arabic political discourse. She charts a method combining ethnographic research into communities of people producing political discourse with investigation of the texts themselves, using tools from anthropology, pragmatics, and sociolinguistics a method with broad applicability to political discourse generally. Taking off from the premise that all discourse is based in social interaction, this book demonstrates that looking at the ways individuals and groups use public discourse to perform critical social and political functions yields entirely new perspectives on the significance of the discourse. Democracy in Contemporary Egyptian Political Discourse is a valuable resource for students of linguistics, political science, democracy studies, Arabic language, and Middle East area studies. |
Contents
| 1 | |
Chapter 2 Political talk as mediated discourse | 13 |
Chapter 3 Situating the Discourse | 43 |
Chapter 4 Identities under construction | 73 |
Chapter 6 Conclusion | 127 |
References | 133 |
Appendix A Transliteration and transcription key | 139 |
Appendix B Excerpt from Mubarak speech | 141 |
Other editions - View all
Democracy in Contemporary Egyptian Political Discourse Michele Durocher Dunne No preview available - 2003 |
Common terms and phrases
1999 statement 9alaa al-Ahram newspaper al-diimuqraaTiyya al-iSlaaH al-Shaab newspaper allatii analysis Arabic Bakhtin Billig Cairo Casablanca civil society code-switching column Committee communities of practice Constitutional Reform Critical Discourse Analysis defines definite article deictic deictic expressions deixis democracy democratic discourse on democracy discussion Egypt elections example Fahmi Huwaydi fii find five Hadith Hala Mustafa hidden polemic hiya human rights activists human rights COP human rights groups Ibn Khaldun Ibrahim Idafa iflaa ilaa implicature indefinite instances of discourse institutions interdiscursivity Islam Islamist Ismail issue language linguistic Mazraani Mubarak’s speeches Muslim Brotherhood ofthe opposition parties opposition political participants petition’s Political and Constitutional political discourse political parties political reform power relations President Mubarak pronouns public discourse public identity published qaDaa refer reflect role Schiffrin Scollon self-referencing September 1999 September 28 September petition significant social interactions social practices speaker specific speech excerpts speechwriting Tannen term texts tion utterances Wilson words Zupnik