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oapen-20.500.12657-557952022-06-02T03:14:09Z Chapter 1 Arabic vis-à-vis English in the Gulf Hopkyns, Sarah Elyas, Tariq Analysis, anthropology, Arab, culture, change, discourse, exclusions, gender, identity, ideology, inclusion, literature, media, linguistic, language, monolingual, narratives, semiotic, translanguaging bic Book Industry Communication::C Language::CJ Language teaching & learning (other than ELT) bic Book Industry Communication::C Language::CF linguistics::CFB Sociolinguistics This chapter explores how bottom-up and top-down language policies in the Gulf countries interact with wider language ideologies and discourses related to globalization, internationalization of higher education, and neoliberalism. Drawing on Irving and Gal’s theories of semiotic formation of language ideologies and Bourdieu’s theory of language and symbolic power, the chapter critically examines the interrelatedness of language ideologies, symbolic power and policies surrounding Arabic and English and resultant effects on linguistic identities. The chapter explores how the languages Arabic and English are often symbolically polarized despite the fact that in everyday practice, languages are interwoven through translingual practice. The chapter suggests concrete ways in which to bridge this ideological divide through glocalization and the legitimizing of translingual practice in multiple domains, including English-medium education. 2022-06-01T08:50:09Z 2022-06-01T08:50:09Z 2022 chapter 9780367711733 9780367711719 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/55795 eng application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 9781003149637_10.4324_9781003149637-1.pdf Taylor & Francis Linguistic Identities in the Arab Gulf States Routledge 10.4324/9781003149637-3 10.4324/9781003149637-3 7b3c7b10-5b1e-40b3-860e-c6dd5197f0bb 5e029294-94d2-41cb-b1ca-fbb72372a6ad 31f63df8-00d8-42e1-a5e6-55859afdf6a2 9780367711733 9780367711719 Routledge 17 Zayed University ZU open access
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This chapter explores how bottom-up and top-down language policies in the Gulf countries interact with wider language ideologies and discourses related to globalization, internationalization of higher education, and neoliberalism. Drawing on Irving and Gal’s theories of semiotic formation of language ideologies and Bourdieu’s theory of language and symbolic power, the chapter critically examines the interrelatedness of language ideologies, symbolic power and policies surrounding Arabic and English and resultant effects on linguistic identities. The chapter explores how the languages Arabic and English are often symbolically polarized despite the fact that in everyday practice, languages are interwoven through translingual practice. The chapter suggests concrete ways in which to bridge this ideological divide through glocalization and the legitimizing of translingual practice in multiple domains, including English-medium education.
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