Multilingualism in Algeria: between ‘soft power’, ‘Arabisation’, ‘Islamisation’, and ‘globalisation’
| Autor: | Anissa Daoudi |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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060201 languages & linguistics
media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences Geography Planning and Development 0507 social and economic geography Context (language use) 06 humanities and the arts Development Language politics Colonialism 050701 cultural studies Epistemology Soft power Hard power Political science 0602 languages and literature Political Science and International Relations Multilingualism Ideology media_common Language policy |
| Zdroj: | The Journal of North African Studies. 23:460-481 |
| ISSN: | 1743-9345 1362-9387 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/13629387.2017.1391962 |
| Popis: | The language question in Algeria is far from a straightforward case and its complexity and multiplicity make it an original case to study due to the diversity of languages, its language politics in both the colonial and the postcolonial eras, and its tight relationship to different ideological movements, which still affect issues related to identity, religion and ethnicity. The distinction between the colonial and the postcolonial eras is a necessary step to understand the layers of complexity of its language policies and provide a context which helps explain the relationship between language politics and ‘soft power’, as theorised by Nye. It also provides a timeframe for when one can start talking about ‘soft power’, in contrast to ‘hard power’ where the coloniser imposed its language by force (what is known as the Frenchification project). The article seeks firstly to challenge the Arabisation project in relation to Algeria and presents its close relationship to the Islamisation of the country t... |
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