Download or read book Language, Ideology and Sociopolitical Change in the Arabic-speaking World written by Chaoqun Lian and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2020-05-28 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a critical interpretation of how the meta-linguistic LPLP discourse of major Arabic language academies from the turn of the twentieth century until the present day continuously 'burden' language with extra-linguistic, sociopolitical meanings, making it a proxy for the protracted courses of national identity negotiation, counter-peripheralisation in the modern world-system and modernisation. Integrating theories of language symbolism, language indexicality, LPLP, habitus, banal nationalism, world-system and perspectives of Critical Discourse Analysis, the book develops our understanding of the phenomenon and mechanism of the entanglement between language, ideology and sociopolitical change in the Arabic-speaking world and beyond.