TRANSFORMING CAPITAL

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ACCESSING KNOWLEDGE

Editorial to this issue

Linguistic practice on contemporary Jordanian radio: publics and participation

Contemporary studies of media Arabic often pass over issues of media form and the broader relevance of language use. The present thesis addresses these issues directly by examining the language used in Jordanian non-government radio programmes. It examines recordings and transcriptions of a range of programme genres – primarily, morning talk shows and “service programmes” (barāmiž ḳadamātiyya), and Islamic advice programmes, both of which feature significant audience input via call-ins. The data are examined through an interpretive form of discourse analysis, drawing on linguistic anthropological theory that analyses language as a form of performance, through comparison of radio programmes as ‘units of interaction.’ This is supported by sociolinguistic data obtained from the recordings, including phoneme frequency analysis, in addition to the author’s experience of 6 months of fieldwork in Jordan in 2014-15. The analysis focuses on four major themes: (1) the influence of media context, specifically the sonic exclusivity and temporal evanescence of radio, on language use, as well as the impact of digital media; (2) the indexicality of certain locally salient sociolinguistic variables, and the use to which they are put in radio talk; (3) the role of language in constructing the identity, or persona, of broadcasters; and (4) the role of language in constructing and validating authoritative discourse, in particular that of Islamic texts and scripture in religious programming. Through its analysis of these themes, using selected recording excerpts as demonstrative case studies, this thesis shows that specific strategies of Arabic use in the radio setting crucially affect both the publics – the addressed audiences – of radio talk, as well as the frameworks of participation in this talk – how and to what extent broadcasters and members of the public can participate in mediated discourse. The results demonstrate the unique value of an interpretive study of linguistic performance for highlighting broader social issues, including the inclusion and exclusion of particular segments of the society through linguistic strategies – Jordanians versus non-Jordanians, Ammanis versus non-Ammanis, and pious Muslims versus non-believers; and the use of language to reassert, or occasionally challenge, dominant ideologies and discourses, such as those of gender, nationalism, and religion. This study thus contributes an examination of contemporary Jordanian non-government radio language in its social and political context – something which has not been attempted before, and which provides important insights regarding both the nature of contemporary Arabic media language and its broader social and cultural import

The Ideology of Swearwords in Slovenia

A study of local perceptions of language ideologies in Slovenia, published in Language & Communication in 2012. Slovene speakers believe that swearwords are not indigenous to their language, but bor- rowed from other South Slavic languages. Interviews with educated Slovene speakers dem- onstrate that this ‘swearword ideology’ is not a purist or linguistic-nationalist phenomenon, but rather reflects Slovenes’ desire to differentiate Slovene from other South Slavic languages. This is due to mutual intelligibility and a lack of formal and legal distinc- tions, especially since other Slavic languages are not recognized as minority languages by the Slovene state. The role of swearwords in this ideology is analyzed as a product of both Lacanian symbolic anxieties and specific sociohistorical conditions, rather than an essentializing ‘Balkanist’ belief. This demonstrates the importance of an approach that does not presuppose essentialism on part of speakers

Unifying voices, creating publics: the uses of media form in contemporary Jordanian radio

Questions of media form have not received sufficient attention in recent studies of Arabic-language media. In Jordanian radio today, however, media form is a highly relevant discursive resource for broadcasters, who strategically invoke the ways in which different types of media communication are conceived and framed, in a metapragmatic manner that goes beyond the impact of merely technical distinctions between media forms. This article examines two examples of this process: the ‘unification’ of radio station voices in a memorial programme for a martyred fighter pilot broadcast in February 2015, where radio’s limitation to sound was used ideologically to assert national unity; and references to digital media on morning talk show programmes, which allow hosts to define audiences and forms of participation in radio conversations. These metapragmatic framings of media form, further, produce specific publics for Jordanian radio: groupings that include, and legitimize, certain segments of listenership—such as ‘true’ Jordanians or ‘the Jordanian people’—while implicitly excluding others. Grounded firmly in discursive data, this article thus provides much-needed nuance to our understanding of mass media in the Arabic-speaking Middle East today—and, ultimately, the genuine significance of media form in its social and cultural context

Linguistic Practice on Contemporary Jordanian Radio: Publics and Participation

This project - based on my ESRC-funded doctoral research in Amman, Jordan, in 2014-15 - examines language use on Jordanian non-government radio today, and how this impacts broader socio-cultural structures and ideologies

A Letter from the Editor

[First paragraph of article follows] This issue of The Unfamiliar includes contributions on a wide range of topics related to the place of death in human social life. Alongside explorations of life-cycle rituals in Georgia; commemorative prac- tices and discourses surrounding a Russian monument for the deceased and a virtual ‘death mask’ image circulated by Turkish protesters, the issue also includes reflections on political violence in Iran; Euro- pean Renaissance ossuaries; and a poem that provides a more creative take on the subject. A common thread running through these pieces is the well-studied anthropological theme of death as an - often ritu- alized - event of ‘transition’ from one stage to another, rather than a decisive ‘end’. It produces persistent material reminders - such as bones, graves, monuments, and belongings of the deceased - that serve as loci for existing social ties to be maintained or new ones to be reconstituted

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