35.1031, Books: A Semiotics of Muslimness in China: Bhatt (2023)

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Date: 19-Mar-2024
From: Ellena Moriarty [ellena.moriarty at cambridge.org]
Subject: A Semiotics of Muslimness in China: Bhatt (2023)


Title: A Semiotics of Muslimness in China
Series Title: Elements in Applied Linguistics
Publication Year: 2023
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
                http://www.cambridge.org/linguistics
Book URL: https://www.cambridge.org/universitypress/subjects/languages
-linguistics/applied-linguistics-and-second-language-acquisition/semio
tics-muslimness-china?format=PB

Author: Ibrar Bhatt
Hardback: ISBN: 9781009462679 Pages: 90 Price: U.S. $ 64.99
Hardback: ISBN: 9781009462679 Pages: 90 Price: U.K. £ 49.99
Hardback: ISBN: 9781009462679 Pages: 90 Price: Europe EURO 58.34
Paperback: ISBN: 9781009415897 Pages: 90 Price: U.S. $ 22.00
Paperback: ISBN: 9781009415897 Pages: 90 Price: U.K. £ 17.00
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Abstract:

This Element examines the semiotics of Sino-Muslim heritage literacy
in a way that integrates its Perso-Arabic textual qualities with
broader cultural semiotic forms. Using data from images of the
linguistic landscape of Sino-Muslim life alongside interviews with
Sino-Muslims about their heritage, the author examines how signs of
'Muslimness' are displayed and manipulated in both covert and overt
means in different contexts. In so doing the author offers a
'semiotics of Muslimness' in China and considers how forms of language
and materiality have the power to inspire meanings and identifications
for Sino-Muslims and understanding of their heritage literacy. The
author employs theoretical tools from linguistic anthropology and an
understanding of semiotic assemblage to demonstrate how signifiers of
Chinese Muslimness are invoked to substantiate heritage and
Sino-Muslim identity constructions even when its expression must be
covert, liminal, and unconventional.

1. Introduction; 2. The semiotics of sini calligraphy; 3. The
semiotics of food heritage; 4. Heritage literacy in liminal spaces; 5.
Conclusions: a semiotics of muslimness; References.

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics

Written In: English (eng)



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