The social motivation of code-switching in mosque sermons in Egypt

Bassiouney, Reem

doi:10.1515/ijsl-2013-0013

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“…There was also presupposition from Azeez's part that all Egyptians agreed and sought the same demands he wanted. This finding correlates with (Bassiouney, 2006(Bassiouney, , 2013 where there was an attempt from politicians and religious men to get closer to the Egyptian people by switching to ECA in their speeches and sermons.…”

Section: Indexes Of Eca and The Relationship Between Cs And Identitysupporting

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

Mohamed¹

EPiC Series in Language and Linguistics

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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 Codeswitching (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.

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

Mohamed¹

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“…First, it is possible to argue that the choice for Lebanese is triggered by a wish to bring the news bulletins closer to an audience that may not fully understand its content in fuṣḥā. That would bring the news bulletins in Lebanese in line with other discourse forms in which the metapragmatic norm that dictates the use of fuṣḥā is breached by codeswitching to a non-fuṣḥā variety, such as political speeches (Mazraani 1997;Bassiouney 2006), sermons in mosques (Bassiouney 2006(Bassiouney , 2013, university lectures (Basiouney 2006) etc. For example, Mazraani (1997) explains in her analysis of speeches by Gamal Abdel Nasser (Ǧamāl 'Abd al-Nāṣir) that Nasser switches to Cairene Arabic when he wants to clarify the message to an audience which is partly illiterate, but also when he wants to concretize and personalize the more abstract aspects of his message.…”

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News broadcasts between fuṣḥā and Lebanese: Language choice as an implicit comment on national identity in Lebanon

Daniëls

2022

Lingue Culture Mediazioni - Languages Cultures Mediation (LCM Journal)

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This article presents an analysis of the news bulletins broadcasted by South Lebanese radio station Ṣawt al-Ğanūb (SaJ, Voice of the South). SaJ broadcasted its news bulletins in fuṣḥā (Standard Arabic), as well as in Lebanese. This is interesting because in most news bulletins tend to be broadcasted in the standard language, rather than in spoken varieties. This is definitely the case for so-called diglossic societies, such as Arabic-speaking societies, in which the linguistic metanorm for ‘serious programs’ is fuṣḥā. After presenting a brief linguistic description of a small corpus of news bulletins that were broadcasted in January 1998, this article focuses on how language (choice) functions symbolically in the extra-linguistic world. It argues that the choice to breach the metapragmatic norms, while framing the language use in the news bulletins explicitly as ‘the Lebanese language’ (al-luġa al-lubnānīye) can be interpreted as an implicit comment on Lebanese national identity.

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“…It assigns varieties to specific contexts based on formality, in a way that denies the possibility of a mixture of varieties. That said, when a few studies were conducted to test these boundaries in formal discourses, they concluded that multi-variety situations happen in all discourse-types, including the most formal discourse, namely religious sermons (Albirini, 2011(Albirini, , 2016Bassiouney, 2013;Saeed, 1997). It is important to note that although it is true that religious sermons are mostly delivered in SA, some preachers may produce a few DA utterances in their otherwise SA speech.…”

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Code-Switching Elicitation Task in Standard Arabic, Dialectal Arabic, and English Among Bilingual Saudi Arabian Students in the United States

Bahri

2022

IJL

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This study explores code-switching practices among bilingual Saudi Arabians within three language varieties: English, Standard Arabic (SA), and Dialectal Arabic (DA). While there are studies that examine the use of code-switching between SA and DA, and others that investigate Arabic-English code-switching, no study to date has examined natural code-switching into English in conversations of SA vs. DA as compared to code-switching into Arabic in English conversations. Controlling the language of the interviewer (English, SA, or DA), this study examines (1) the likelihood of code-switching relative to the language of the interview, (2) the rate of switches in each interview context, and (3) the mean duration of those switch segments. Results show that code-switching to Arabic was very rare in English interviews (only 0.89% of interview time was in Arabic with a switch rate of 1.74 switches/minute and average length of 0.59 s). However, participants in SA and DA interviews did code-switch to English 8.32% and 10.08% of the time, respectively. The mean rate of switches was about twice as frequent for participants interviewed in DA (14.18 switches/minute) than for participants interviewed in SA (7.21 switches/minute). Moreover, participants in SA interviews had significantly longer mean English segments than DA interviewees (1.21 s vs. 0.81 s, respectively). The results demonstrate that (1) English has the greatest impact on participants’ tendency to code-switch, (2) SA encourages code-switching in a way that aims to preserve its formal status, and (3) DA encourages code-switching the most, i.e., code-switching is an emblem of DA conversations.

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The social motivation of code-switching in mosque sermons in Egypt

Cited by 13 publications

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

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

News broadcasts between fuṣḥā and Lebanese: Language choice as an implicit comment on national identity in Lebanon

Code-Switching Elicitation Task in Standard Arabic, Dialectal Arabic, and English Among Bilingual Saudi Arabian Students in the United States

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