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1) Subject:New Book: Democracy in Contemporary Egyptian Political
Discourse

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Date: 02 Oct  2003
From:reposted from LINGUIST
Subject: New Book: Democracy in Contemporary Egyptian Political
Discourse

Title: Democracy in Contemporary Egyptian Political Discourse
Series Title: Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture 6
			
Publication Year: 2003
Publisher: John Benjamins
            http://www.benjamins.com/, http://www.benjamins.nl		
			
Book URL:
http://www.benjamins.nl/cgi-bin/t_bookview.cgi?bookid=DAPSAC_6

Author: Michele Durocher Dunne				

Hardback: ISBN: 9027226962, Pages: xii, 179 pp., Price: EUR 80.00
Hardback: ISBN: 1588113949, Pages: xii, 179 pp., Price: USD 80.00
			
Abstract:

When politicians and pundits in the Middle East discuss democracy, do
they mean it? Looking at public discourse about democracy in
contemporary Egypt, Dunne proposes a fresh way of reading Arabic
political discourse. She charts a method combining ethnographic
research into communities of people producing political discourse with
investigation of the texts themselves, using tools from anthropology,
pragmatics, and sociolinguistics - a method with broad applicability
to political discourse generally. Taking off from the premise that all
discourse is based in social interaction, this book demonstrates that
looking at the ways individuals and groups use public discourse to
perform critical social and political functions yields entirely new
perspectives on the significance of the discourse.

Democracy in Contemporary Egyptian Political Discourse is a valuable
resource for students of linguistics, political science, democracy
studies, Arabic language, and Middle East area studies.

Table of contents

Acknowledgements  v
1. Introduction: Context, data, methods  1-12
2. Political talk as mediated discourse  13-42
3. Situating the Discourse  43-72
4. Identities under construction  73-94
5. Power relations replicated and challenged  95-125
6. Conclusion: The irresistible discourse  127-132
References  133-137
Appendix A: Transliteration and transcription key  139-140
Appendix B: Excerpt from Mubarak speech delivered October 5, 1999
   141-149
Appendix C: Excerpt from Mubarak speech delivered November 13, 1999
   150-158
Appendix D: September petition text  159-163
Appendix E: Excerpts from two articles by Fahmi Huwaydi  164-169
Appendix F: Excerpts from two articles by Hala Mustafa  170-176
Index  177-178

Lingfield(s):   Discourse Analysis
		Pragmatics
			
Subject Language(s):  Arabic, Egyptian Spoken (Language Code: ARZ)

Written In:  English (Language Code: ENG)


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      http://linguistlist.org/get-book.html?BookID=7470.

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