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[Dilworth Parkinson]

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Date: 22 Feb 2007
From:reembassiouney at hotmail.com
Subject:UofUtah Conference on Media Language Program

[for more information contact Reem Bassiouney at reemb at hum.utah.edu]

Sunday 4th of March:
9.15-9.30 Welcome and introduction.

Session (1) 9.30-12.15
Wars in the Media
9.30-10.45
“For Domestic consumption: US news reporting of the 2006 Israel- 
Hizbollah war”.
Professor Tom Huckins (University of Utah)

15 minutes coffee break

11-12.15
“News agencies’ language in the Arab media during the Iraqi war”
Professor Samir Mohammad (University of Cairo)

Lunch break

Session (2) 2-4.45
Code switching and the Media
2-3.15
“Patterns and predictions for code-switching with Arabic”
Professor Carol Myers-Scotton ) Michigan State University, South  
Carolina University)

15 minutes coffee break

3.30-4.45
What happens when diglossia is not policed?
Professor Naima Omar  (University Kansas)

Monday 5th of March
Session (3) 9-1.15
What media does to Arabic/what Arabic does to the media.
9-10.15
“Language attitudes and media in the Arab world”
Professor Keith Walters (Portland State University)

15 minutes coffee break

10.30-11.15
“The effect of media on spoken Arabic”
Professor Zeinab Taha (American University of Cairo)

15 minutes coffee break

11.30-1.15
“Communities of use in Arabic newspaper language”
Professor Dilworth Parkinson (Brigham Young University)

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