Language and identity politics in the American Board Mission church in Zimbabwe

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
Emmanuel Sithole ◽  
Pamela Maseko
Keyword(s):  
Identity Politics ◽  
Language And Identity ◽  
Mission Church

‘A badge of Europeanness’

2014 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 375-402 ◽  
Author(s):  
Franco Zappettini
Keyword(s):  
Identity Politics ◽  
Language And Identity ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Institutional Level ◽  
Historical Approach ◽  
Discursive Strategies ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Discourse Historical Approach ◽  
Discursive Representations ◽  
Institutional Construction

This paper contributes to the advancement of the established body of literature on language and identity by ascertaining how discursive representations of multilingualism at an institutional level have interplayed with the construction and the definition of European identities. Using the Discourse Historical Approach (Wodak 2001), the analysis focuses on a corpus of official speeches given by the European Commissioner for Multilingualism to identify discursive strategies and linguistic devices and link them to wider socio-political and historic dynamics. Findings suggest that the institutional construction of Europeanness has primarily occurred through macro discourses predicated on cultural, civic and economic dimensions of multilingualism with some inherent tensions in contrasting representations of ‘diverse’ and multilingual EU-rope. It is suggested that through heterogeneous representations of multilingualism torn between identity politics and commodification, European identities emerge as hybrid and fragmented constructs in between national, post national and global dimensions.

Language and Identity Politics

2021 ◽  
pp. 359-372
Author(s):  
Teresa L. Khawzawl
Keyword(s):  
Identity Politics ◽  
Language And Identity

Language as Proxy in Egypt’s Identity Politics: Examining the New Wave of Egyptian Nationalism

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mariam Aboelezz
Keyword(s):  
Identity Politics ◽  
Language And Identity ◽  
New Wave ◽  
The Government

This article, written by Mariam Aboelezz’s, focuses on the period following the overthrow of Egypt’s Islamist president Mohamad Morsi in 2013. Concurrent with this was a government-supported emphasis on ‘Egyptian identity’. Using the concept of alterity as highlighted by Suleiman, as well as acknowledging Suleiman’s contribution to the study of the role of language as proxy in identity politics, Aboelezz examines how language is used as proxy in this new wave of Egyptian nationalism. She demonstrates how old motifs have been revived by the government – for example, the use of ʿāmmiyya and the rejection of fuṣḥā as proxies for promoting an Egyptian identity – and establishes a convincing link between language and identity through processes of distanciation, differentiation and identification.

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