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Code Choice and Stance Taking by Two Mahragānāt Performers: A Case of Social Identity Construction in Egyptian Public Discourse
Mahragānāt [festivals] is a relatively new genre of Egyptian street music that broadly represents working-class values and culture. Performers are aware of their unprivileged origins and feature the concerns and interests of Egyptian slums in their songs. Their vocals are linguistically fixated on l...
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| author | Abusamra, Yasmine |
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| description | Mahragānāt [festivals] is a relatively new genre of Egyptian street music that broadly represents working-class values and culture. Performers are aware of their unprivileged origins and feature the concerns and interests of Egyptian slums in their songs. Their vocals are linguistically fixated on local urban realities of the working class and often express loyalty to singers’ neighborhoods. This qualitative study explores code choice in selected songs of two artists, Muhammad Ramadan and Ahmad Ali, and its relation to social class. Both performers overtly promulgate their unprivileged urban origin and employ their lyrics to reframe and negotiate their position in society through challenging the social distribution of power and the dominant language ideologies deeply rooted in Egyptian media. Further, the study seeks to know how the performers manipulate language to construct their social identity in the media and challenge the working-class stereotype. To that end, online and television interviews are analyzed to identify the two artists’ linguistic repertoire and their range of linguistic performance. The study adopts stance theory and indexicality as a theoretical framework for examining language form and content. A close qualitative examination of the mahragānāt sample, considering its spreading popularity among the Egyptian youth, demonstrates a possible undergoing change of language ideologies at large in Egyptian media as vernaculars gain more space, power, and prestige. |
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| spelling | oai:fount.aucegypt.edu:etds-2998 Code Choice and Stance Taking by Two Mahragānāt Performers: A Case of Social Identity Construction in Egyptian Public Discourse Abusamra, Yasmine Mahragānāt [festivals] is a relatively new genre of Egyptian street music that broadly represents working-class values and culture. Performers are aware of their unprivileged origins and feature the concerns and interests of Egyptian slums in their songs. Their vocals are linguistically fixated on local urban realities of the working class and often express loyalty to singers’ neighborhoods. This qualitative study explores code choice in selected songs of two artists, Muhammad Ramadan and Ahmad Ali, and its relation to social class. Both performers overtly promulgate their unprivileged urban origin and employ their lyrics to reframe and negotiate their position in society through challenging the social distribution of power and the dominant language ideologies deeply rooted in Egyptian media. Further, the study seeks to know how the performers manipulate language to construct their social identity in the media and challenge the working-class stereotype. To that end, online and television interviews are analyzed to identify the two artists’ linguistic repertoire and their range of linguistic performance. The study adopts stance theory and indexicality as a theoretical framework for examining language form and content. A close qualitative examination of the mahragānāt sample, considering its spreading popularity among the Egyptian youth, demonstrates a possible undergoing change of language ideologies at large in Egyptian media as vernaculars gain more space, power, and prestige. 2022-10-01T07:00:00Z thesis application/pdf https://fount.aucegypt.edu/etds/1964 https://fount.aucegypt.edu/context/etds/article/2998/viewcontent/Yasmine_Hamdy_Abusamra_Thesis.pdf Theses and Dissertations AUC Knowledge Fountain Mahragānāt; Egypt; Stance; Code choice; Language attitude; Language ideology; Indexicality; identity; Power; Performance; Style. Anthropological Linguistics and Sociolinguistics Applied Linguistics Arabic Language and Literature Arabic Studies Discourse and Text Linguistics Near Eastern Languages and Societies |
| spellingShingle | Mahragānāt; Egypt; Stance; Code choice; Language attitude; Language ideology; Indexicality; identity; Power; Performance; Style. Anthropological Linguistics and Sociolinguistics Applied Linguistics Arabic Language and Literature Arabic Studies Discourse and Text Linguistics Near Eastern Languages and Societies Abusamra, Yasmine Code Choice and Stance Taking by Two Mahragānāt Performers: A Case of Social Identity Construction in Egyptian Public Discourse |
| title | Code Choice and Stance Taking by Two Mahragānāt Performers: A Case of Social Identity Construction in Egyptian Public Discourse |
| title_full | Code Choice and Stance Taking by Two Mahragānāt Performers: A Case of Social Identity Construction in Egyptian Public Discourse |
| title_fullStr | Code Choice and Stance Taking by Two Mahragānāt Performers: A Case of Social Identity Construction in Egyptian Public Discourse |
| title_full_unstemmed | Code Choice and Stance Taking by Two Mahragānāt Performers: A Case of Social Identity Construction in Egyptian Public Discourse |
| title_short | Code Choice and Stance Taking by Two Mahragānāt Performers: A Case of Social Identity Construction in Egyptian Public Discourse |
| title_sort | code choice and stance taking by two mahraganat performers a case of social identity construction in egyptian public discourse |
| topic | Mahragānāt; Egypt; Stance; Code choice; Language attitude; Language ideology; Indexicality; identity; Power; Performance; Style. Anthropological Linguistics and Sociolinguistics Applied Linguistics Arabic Language and Literature Arabic Studies Discourse and Text Linguistics Near Eastern Languages and Societies |
| url | https://fount.aucegypt.edu/etds/1964 https://fount.aucegypt.edu/context/etds/article/2998/viewcontent/Yasmine_Hamdy_Abusamra_Thesis.pdf |
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