Arabic-L:LING:Arabic and the Media Workshop, February 22nd, Georgetown University

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1) Subject: Arabic and the Media Workshop, February 22nd, Georgetown
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Date: 12 Jan 2013
From:Meriem Tikue <mmt43 at georgetown.edu>
Subject: Arabic and the Media Workshop, February 22nd, Georgetown University

*The Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies Presents:**Arabic and the
Media Workshop**Friday, February 22,

2013**ICC<http://maps.georgetown.edu/interculturalcenter/>462
*
This workshop is the second in a series of workshops that aims at bringing
scholars from Arabic sociolinguistics with distinguished scholars on
sociolinguistics more generally to exchange ideas and projects. This year
the workshop will address essential issues such as the role of media in
identity formation and conflicts as well as the impact of media on language
variation and language ideologies.

*Register Here* <http://arabicmediaworkshop.eventbrite.com/>

*9:00 - 9:30am | Introduction*

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*9:30 - 11:00am | Session I: Media Linguistic Impact*
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Chair: Reem Bassiouney, Georgetown University
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*Michael Silverstein<
http://anthropology.uchicago.edu/people/faculty_member/michael_silverstein
>(University
of Chicago)
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*
The Enregistrement of Dialects in American English and its Lessons for
Diglossia
*

*Fernando Ramallo <http://uvigo.academia.edu/fernandoramallo> (Universidade
de Vigo, Spain) *
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How can media support minority languages?

*

*11:00 - 11:30am | Break*

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*11:30 - 1:00pm | Session II: Conflict, Identity, and Media*
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Chair: Elliott Colla, Georgetown University
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*Yasir Suleiman<
http://www.ames.cam.ac.uk/general_info/biographies/islamic/Suleiman.htm
>(University
of Cambridge)
*
*
Sleeping on a Wire: Language Choice and Political Conflict
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*Anna De Fina <http://explore.georgetown.edu/people/definaa/> (Georgetown
University)*
*
The Linguistic Construction of Identities in Transnational Spaces

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*1:00 - 2:30pm | Lunch Break*

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*2:30 - 4:00pm | Session III: Language Ideology and the Media*
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Chair: Adel Iskandar, Georgetown University
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*Dina Matar <http://www.soas.ac.uk/staff/staff31398.php> (University of
London) *
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Framing Ideologies: Language, Power and the Media
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*Becky Schulthies<
http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Anthropology/people/BeckySchulthies.html>(
Brown
University)
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Scripted Ideologies: Online Orthographies of Spoken Arabics

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*4:00 - 4:30pm | Break*

*4:30pm - 5:30pm | Discussion and Future Research conducted by Reem
Bassiouney*

*For more information, please visit our website<
http://arabic.georgetown.edu/>
.*
--
Meriem Tikue
Business Manager, Dept of Arabic and Islamic
Studies<http://arabic.georgetown.edu/>
Assistant Director, Summer Arabic & Persian Language
Institute<
http://scs.georgetown.edu/departments/29/summer-school/format/language-institutes/arabic-and-persian
>
Georgetown University
Poulton #201, Washington, DC 20007
P: 202-687-2735  F: 202-687-7971
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