Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies

The Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies Presents:

Arabic and the Media Workshop

Friday, February 22, 2013

McShain Lounge (Large), McCarthy Hall

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.

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10:00 - 10:30am | Introduction

10:30 - 11:30am | Session I: Media Linguistic Impact
Chair: Reem Bassiouney, Georgetown University

Michael Silverstein (University of Chicago)
The Enregistrement of Dialects in American English and its Lessons for Diglossia

11:30 - 12:00pm | Break

12:00 - 1:00pm | Session II: Conflict, Identity, and Media
Chair: Elliott Colla, Georgetown University

Anna De Fina (Georgetown University)
The Linguistic Construction of Identities in Transnational Spaces

1:00 - 2:30pm | Lunch Break

2:30 - 4:00pm | Session III: Language Ideology and the Media
Chair: Adel Iskandar, Georgetown University

Dina Matar (University of London)
Framing Ideologies: Language, Power and the Media

Becky Schulthies (Rutgers University)
Scripted Ideologies: Online Orthographies of Spoken Arabics

4:00 - 4:30pm | Break

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

To download the program in PDF format, please click here.

Traveling to campus for the event? Please see here for transportation options: http://www.georgetown.edu/campus-life/transportation/index.html