Literacies in Contemporary Egypt

Everyday Writing and Political Change
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-0-415-70396-3
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 224 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Reihe: Routledge Arabic Linguistics Series

This book provides an ethnographically grounded description and interpretation of a variety of writing practices, including social media, in contemporary Egypt.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Panovic, Ivan

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Soziolinguistik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Sprachsoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction 1 Write like an Egyptian 2 Franco: Arabic without Arabic Script 3 The Third Player in the Field: English 4 Looking Back: A Historical Perspective 5 When Fusha is not enough 6 Language in the Time of Revolution: Transient Linguistic Cityscapes of Cairo 7 Going Ammi all the way, or maybe not: the Case of Wikipedia Masry 8 Tweet Like an Egyptian: Micro Blogging, Major Mixing 9 From Books to Facebook and Back 10 From Diglossia to Translingualism

Über Autor(innen)

Ivan Panovic is Andrew H. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Arabic Sociolinguistics, Oriental Institute, University of Oxford