27.2596, Calls: Arabic, Socioling/Morocco

Tue Jun 14 14:43:09 UTC 2016

LINGUIST List: Vol-27-2596. Tue Jun 14 2016. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 27.2596, Calls: Arabic, Socioling/Morocco

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Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2016 10:43:02
From: Ahmed Echcharfi [a.echcharfi at um5s.net.ma]
Subject: Standardization of Arabiyya and Amazigh in Comparative Perspective

Full Title: Standardization of Arabiyya and Amazigh in Comparative Perspective 
Short Title: SAACP 

Date: 05-Oct-2016 - 06-Oct-2016
Location: Rabat, Morocco 
Contact Person: Ahmed Echcharfi
Meeting Email: morocco.arabic.workshops at gmail.com
Web Site: http://www.fse.ma 

Linguistic Field(s): Sociolinguistics 

Subject Language(s): Arabic, Standard (arb)

Call Deadline: 30-Jun-2016 

Meeting Description:

The conference is organized jointly by the Faculty of Education, Rabat, and
the Department of Middle East Studies, UT, Austin.

The conference compares the standardization of Arabic in the 8th century and
the ongoing standardization of Berber in North African countries.

The organizers invite scholars interested in Arabic, Amazigh and the
phenomenon of language standardization to compare the standardization of
Classical Arabic (i.e. „Arabiyya) during the first and second centuries A.H
(VIII and IX A.D.) and the ongoing standardization of Amazigh in North African
countries. The main reason behind the choice of this topic is that the social,
the political and the religious circumstances that motivated and directed the
standardization Classical Arabic are still not well-understood. Arab and
Muslim scholars have long been content with some ideas advanced in the IV
century A.H according to which Classical Arabic corresponds to the Qurayshi
variety. Western scholars also have not given much interest to the phenomenon,
though many of them expressed opinions in this regard which remained scattered
in their writings. Therefore, the organizers of the Rabat-Austin workshops on
Arabic hope that scholars will seize the opportunity to discuss the issue
deeply in the light of traditional Arabic sources as well as recent
scholarship on language standardization in general.

Language standardization in the past can be approached better through
comparison with similar processes happening in the present. One case of
language standardization taking place in the Arab-Muslim world is Amazigh
(Berber), the language of the original inhabitants of North Africa. What is
interesting about the Amazigh case is that its standardization is happening
within a cultural context deeply influenced by Arabic traditional views of
language, linguistic variation and linguistic standards. The name „Amazigh‟
today refers to a large set of varieties many of which are not mutually
intelligible. Yet, Amazigh activists in Morocco, for example, insist on the
unity of their language in their discourse with their community as well as
with the state. Why do we witness such strong tendency toward unity? What
about the relation between trans-national Amazigh varieties and movements?
What effect has the Arabo-Islamic linguistic culture on the Amazigh
standardization discourse? etc. These and similar questions can give rise to a
fruitful debate about language standardization in general, and language
standardization in an Arabo-Islamic setting in particular.

Call for Papers: 

Researchers wishing to contribute to these workshops are encouraged to
contribute papers and give 25-minute presentations in any of – but not only –
these areas:

Arabic:
- The role of the Umayyad and the Abbasid dynasties in language
standardization
- The role of tribal conflict in language standardization
- The role of grammarians and lexicographers in language standardization
- Dialectal variation and the standardization of Classical Arabic
- Quranic readings and the emergence of Classical Arabic
- Classical Arabic and Quranic script (rasm)

Amazigh:
- Language variation and the standardization of Amazigh
- The role of the Arabic linguistic culture in the standardization of Amazigh
- The standardization of Amazigh and the Amazigh “nationhood”
- Standard Amazigh and the state

Comparative studies:
- The role of religious texts in language standardization
- The role of linguistic culture in language standardization
- The political and the social functions of language standardization
- Language standardization and social conflict
- The standardization and re-standardization of Arabic

Working languages:
Papers and presentations can be prepared in English, Arabic or French.
Procedures and requirements of registration for the event will be announced on
the website of the Faculty of Education – Rabat: fse.ma

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