scholarly journals Identity and the Indexicality of Code-switching in the Egyptian Society

10.29007/2k8c ◽  
2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rasha Mohamed
Keyword(s):  
Strong Relationship ◽  
Code Switching ◽  
Language And Identity ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Television Series ◽  
Third Order ◽  
Standard Arabic ◽  
Reciprocal Influence ◽  
Social Events ◽  
Colloquial Arabic

This sociolinguistic paper analyzes the linguistic codes used in the Egyptian television series A Girl Called Zaat (Zaat), which was produced in 2013. This series is an adaptation of the novel Zaat or self by the leftist Egyptian novelist Son’a Allah Ibrahim. The series was chosen because it depicts the eras of several Egyptian presidents, and thus is abundant of important political and social events in Egypt, from the 1952 revolution to the 2011 revolution. These political and social incidents were very influential in the life of the heroine “Zaat”, who represents Egyptians. It would be useful to examine how language was used to express the changes that were taking place in the Egyptian society and hence in Egyptian people’s identities. This research attempts to answer these questions: What were the codes used in the series? What were the indexes of these codes? How was Code-switching (CS) related to identity? Language and identity have a strong relationship and a reciprocal influence. The Theory of indexicality was used in the analysis, particularly second and third order indexicality. The analysis revealed that there were three codes in the series: Egyptian Colloquial Arabic (ECA), English, and Standard Arabic (SA). Hopefully, by examining the indexes of these three codes, the analysis of this series would be of interest and benefit in highlighting the Egyptian social and linguistic situation.

Revolutionary Cityscapes: Yūsuf Idrīs and the National Imaginary

2018 ◽  
pp. 186-205
Author(s):  
Yasmine Ramadan
Keyword(s):  
Literary Analysis ◽  
Language And Identity ◽  
Standard Arabic ◽  
Love Story ◽  
National Imaginary ◽  
Arabic Sociolinguistics ◽  
Inclusive Concept ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
Colloquial Arabic ◽  
The City

This chapter looks back at the transformative moment of 1950s Egypt, examining the representation of Cairo in the work of Yūsuf Idrīs. At the center of this study is Idrīs’ first novel Qiṣṣat ḥubb (A Love Story, 1956). The analysis focuses upon the geographic and linguistic scapes of Cairo, exploring the intersection of the linguistic and the spatial in the conceptionalization of the Egyptian identity. The diverse spaces of the city, that bring together people from across Egypt’s socio-economic and geographic spectrum are presented alongside the linguistic registers spoken by these city-dwellers. While the main text is written in fuṣḥā (standard Arabic), the characters’ dialogue captures the varied registers of ʿāmmiyya (colloquial Arabic) spoken by the diverse inhabitants of Cairo. The literary analysis, framed by spatial theory and Arabic sociolinguistics, is situated in relationship to the canonical literary production of the period, and the debates concerning language and identity in the nahda period of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, to assert Idrīs’ innovative gestures towards a more inclusive concept of national identity. In creating a linguistic and geographical map of Cairo, Idrīs presents possibilities for multiple identities and alternative forms of community.

scholarly journals Text vs. Comment

Pragmatics ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-67
Author(s):  
Marco Hamam
Keyword(s):  
Spoken Language ◽  
Code Switching ◽  
Standard Arabic ◽  
Inherent Value ◽  
Colloquial Arabic

This article deals with the question of the diglossic code-switching in the Arabic spoken language and especially in learned discourses. I aim to explain the rhetorical inherent value in the diglossic code-switching in the Arabic spoken language and I will attempt to show through a series of examples drawn from an Aljazeera episode, how the juxtaposition of standard Arabic and colloquial Arabic can be a vehicle for messages that bear rhetorical / metaphorical values.

scholarly journals «Siftlikom msg f tel opostitha hna rj3 l history»: mescolanze di codice nella comunicazione mediale in Marocco

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elena Tamburini ◽  
Gabriele Iannàccaro
Keyword(s):  
English Teachers ◽  
Code Switching ◽  
The Real ◽  
Standard Arabic ◽  
French And English ◽  
Self Assessments ◽  
Dialectal Arabic

Based on first-hand collected data, the article analyses a number of code-switching occurrences in multilingual chats among a community of English teachers in the Fes-Meknes region of Morocco. The data are compared with the results of a perceptual questionnaire on linguistic self-assessments and also take into account the orthographic aspect of the messages. The complex sociolinguistic framework of the area vividly emerges, as well as the real and perceived status of the varieties and the relationships between codes. The result is a coherent combination of Standard Arabic, dialectal Arabic, French and English.

scholarly journals (Re)visions télévisuelles de la colonisation du Nord – série médiatique d’Un homme et son péché de Claude-Henri Grignon

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 86-97
Author(s):  
Katarzyna Wójcik
Keyword(s):  
The Novel ◽  
French Canadian ◽  
Television Series ◽  
Ideological Discourse ◽  
Xixth Century ◽  
Representation Of Space ◽  
Realistic Image ◽  
Quebec History ◽  
Different Levels ◽  
Pays D'en Haut

Claude-Henri Grignon’s novel Un homme et son péché presents the life of French Canadian colonial settlers of the Laurentides region at the end of XIXth century. It depicts a realistic image of the colonisation period of Quebec history. The novel is at the origin of a media series that englobes a radio adaptation, three filmic adaptations, theater adaptations, a comic, and two television series. The aim of this article is to discuss the vision of colonisation by analysing two television series based on Un homme et son péché: Les Belles Histoires des pays d’en haut broadcast from 1956 to 1970 and Les Pays d’en haut broadcast from 2016 to 2019 on ICI Radio-Canada Télé 1. The analysis will try to trace modifications inherent to the process of adaptation on different levels (protagonists, representation of space, ideological discourse) and their influence on the vision of the colonisation period.

scholarly journals “Ae Thoosand Tongues”: Language and Identity in Psychoraag

2011 ◽  
Vol 36 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katherine Ashley
Keyword(s):  
First Century ◽  
Language And Identity ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Language And Music ◽  
Twenty First Century

Suhayl Saadi’s 2004 novel, Psychoraag, asks important questions about language, nation, and identity in twenty-first century Scotland.This article analyzes the ways in which language and music shape identity in the novel; explores the tensions that exist between the novel’s competing languages; studies the narrator’s personae; and examines his search for psychic, emotional, and linguistic wholeness. It argues that Psychoraag is an effective commentary on the inherent limitations of exclusionary conceptions of Scottishness, for the novel demonstrates that it is only by transcending traditional notions of Scottishness and embracing linguistic disorder that contemporary Scottish identity can be fully articulated.

scholarly journals Staging Henry Fielding: The Author-Narrator in Tom Jones On Screen

Authorship ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Eli Løfaldli
Keyword(s):  
Henry Fielding ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Television Series ◽  
Adaptation Theory ◽  
Tom Jones ◽  
History Of

As recent adaptation theory has shown, classic-novel adaptation typically sets issues connected to authorship and literal and figurative ownership into play. This key feature of such adaptations is also central to the screen versions of Henry Fielding’s Tom Jones (1749). In much of Fielding’s fiction, the narrator, typically understood as an embodiment of Fielding himself, is a particularly prominent presence. The author-narrator in Tom Jones is no exception: not only is his presence strongly felt throughout the novel, but through a variety of means, ‘The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling’ is also distinctly marked as being under his control and ownership. The two adaptations of Fielding’s novel, a 1963 film and a 1997 television series, both retain the figure of the author-narrator, but differ greatly in their handling of this device and its consequent thematic ramifications. Although the 1963 film de-emphasises Henry Fielding’s status as proprietor of the story, the author-narrator as represented in the film’s voiceover commentary is a figure of authority and authorial control. In contrast, the 1997 adaptation emphasises Fielding’s ownership of the narrative and even includes the author-narrator as a character in the series, but this ownership is undermined by the irreverent treatment to which he is consistently subjected. The representations of Henry Fielding in the form of the author-narrator in both adaptations are not only indicative of shifting conceptions of authorship, but also of the important interplay between authorship, ownership and adaptation more generally.

scholarly journals Novel Simplified Model for Asynchronous Machine with Consideration of Frequency Characteristic

2014 ◽  
Vol 2014 ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Changchun Cai ◽  
Ping Ju ◽  
Yuqing Jin
Keyword(s):  
Power Systems ◽  
Frequency Characteristic ◽  
Digital Simulation ◽  
Large Error ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Third Order ◽  
Machine Model ◽  
Transient Model ◽  
Asynchronous Machine ◽  
Electric Equipment

The frequency characteristic of electric equipment should be considered in the digital simulation of power systems. The traditional asynchronous machine third-order transient model excludes not only the stator transient but also the frequency characteristics, thus decreasing the application sphere of the model and resulting in a large error under some special conditions. Based on the physical equivalent circuit and Park model for asynchronous machines, this study proposes a novel asynchronous third-order transient machine model with consideration of the frequency characteristic. In the new definitions of variables, the voltages behind the reactance are redefined as the linear equation of flux linkage. In this way, the rotor voltage equation is not associated with the derivative terms of frequency. However, the derivative terms of frequency should not always be ignored in the application of the traditional third-order transient model. Compared with the traditional third-order transient model, the novel simplified third-order transient model with consideration of the frequency characteristic is more accurate without increasing the order and complexity. Simulation results show that the novel third-order transient model for the asynchronous machine is suitable and effective and is more accurate than the widely used traditional simplified third-order transient model under some special conditions with drastic frequency fluctuations.

scholarly journals The Analysis of Code Switching Found In the Novel “Critical Eleven”

HUMANIS ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 57
Author(s):  
A.A. Tri Anggarukma K D ◽  
I Gede Putu Sudana ◽  
I Made Winaya
Keyword(s):  
Group Identity ◽  
Lexical Item ◽  
Code Switching ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Expressive Function ◽  
Poetic Function ◽  
Directive Function ◽  
Referential Function

This paper is entitled “The Analysis Code Switching Found in The Novel “Critical Eleven”. The aims of this study  are to describe the types, function and to the analyse reasons of code switching used by the novelist. The data  in this study were taken from all chapters of the novel entitled “Critical Eleven”by Ika Natassa. Firstly, the code switching that occurs in novel were identified and then they were classified and analyzed based on their types, function, and reasons of code switching. The collected data were analyzed  using three theories;  first the theory by Poplack as the main theory used in this study; this theory was used to analyze the three types of code swtching, they are: Tag Switching, Inter-Sentental Switching, Intra-Sentential Switching. The second theory proposed by Apple and Muyken was used to anlyze the function of code switching. They divided the functions into six categories, which are: Referential Function, Directive Function, Expressive Function, Phatic Function, Metalinguistic Function, Poetic Function. The theory proposed by Grosjean was used to analyze the reason of code switching.  There are ten reasons of code switching; they are: To Fill A Linguistic Need For Lexical Item, Set Phrase, Discouse Marker Or Sentence Filler,To Continue Last Language Used (Triggering}, To Qoute Someone, To Emphasize, To Spesify Speaket Addressee, To Qualify Message: Amplify Or Emphasize, To Specify Speaker Involvement, To Mark And Emphasize Group Identity (Solidarity), To Convey Confidentially, Anger, Annoyance, To  Exclude Someone From Conversation, To Change Role Of Speaker: Rise Status, Add Authority, Show Expertise.But from the six functions of code switching  applied, there are only five functions of code switching found in the novel; they are Referential Function, Expressive Function, Phatic Function, Metalinguistic Function And Poetic Function. And based on the reasons of code switching, there were only seven which were found in the novel”Critical Eleven”; they are To Fill A Linguistic Need For Lexical Item, To Continue The Last Language Used (Triggering), To Quote Someone, Specify Addressee, To Specify Speaker Involvement, To Mark And Emphasize Group Identify (Solidarity) And To Convey Confidentially, Anger, And Annoyance.

scholarly journals A numerical implementation of the unified Fokas transform for evolution problems on a finite interval

2017 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 543-567 ◽  
Author(s):  
EMINE KESICI ◽  
BEATRICE PELLONI ◽  
TRISTAN PRYER ◽  
DAVID SMITH
Keyword(s):  
Numerical Evaluation ◽  
Space Dimension ◽  
Finite Interval ◽  
Representation Formula ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Numerical Implementation ◽  
Third Order ◽  
Linear Evolution ◽  
Time Stepping ◽  
Solution Representation

We present the numerical solution of two-point boundary value problems for a third-order linear PDE, representing a linear evolution in one space dimension. To our knowledge, the numerical evaluation of the solution so far could only be obtained by a time-stepping scheme, that must also take into account the issue, generically non-trivial, of the imposition of the boundary conditions. Instead of computing the evolution numerically, we evaluate the novel solution representation formula obtained by the unified transform, also known as Fokas transform. This representation involves complex line integrals, but in order to evaluate these integrals numerically, it is necessary to deform the integration contours using appropriate deformation mappings. We formulate a strategy to implement effectively this deformation, which allows us to obtain accurate numerical results.

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