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Jair Albarracín

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SaschaJanssen 🎸 @saschajanssen.bsky.social · 12d

Gustavo Petro zegt het klip en klaar.

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Uri Horesh @urihoresh.bsky.social · Sep 5

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Friends don’t let friends fund apartheid: Stop JNF Canada’s attempt to evade CRA revocation

Vous recherchez la version française ? Vous la trouverez ici. In August 2024, the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) formally revoked the charitable status of the Jewish National Fund of Canada (JNF Canada)...

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Jair Albarracín @lbrzn.bsky.social · Sep 5

Arabic Linguistics - Volume 1, Issue 1, 2025
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Volume 1, Issue 1 | John Benjamins

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Lameen Souag @lameensouag.bsky.social · Aug 3

PSA to students of Maltese-Romance syntactic contact:

qalhom ("he said them") != qallhom ("he said to them")

Jair Albarracín @lbrzn.bsky.social · Jul 29

communities across time and space. The ideology of diglossia obscures this deep and lasting relationship. More ʿāmmiyya and more fuṣḥā go hand-in-hand, and mean more written Arabic for all."

Jair Albarracín @lbrzn.bsky.social · Jul 29

that allows it to stretch beyond its everyday functions into the realm of the artistic, a process which in turn helps bind it with fuṣḥā. Fuṣḥā acts as do the performance registers in other languages, stretching the boundaries of expression, providing models and inspiration, and linking speech...

Jair Albarracín @lbrzn.bsky.social · Jul 29

What has kept fuṣḥā alive all these centuries is precisely its symbiotic relationship with ʿāmmiyya, which provides it with the stuff of social intercourse, human communication & emotion. Fuṣḥā, on the other hand, provides ʿāmmiyya with a rich body of material lexical, phonological, & morphological

Jair Albarracín @lbrzn.bsky.social · Jul 29

However, even if this were so, it would not mean that fuṣḥā is in danger of slipping away. It is true that the Qurʾan has played an important role in the maintenance of fuṣḥā as the standard ideal, but that would not have been enough to keep it alive for over a millenium.

Jair Albarracín @lbrzn.bsky.social · Jul 29

was promoted throughout much of the twentieth century. Seen in this light, the explosion of writing in ʿāmmiyya/dārija suggests that the reign of standard language ideology as the most powerful language ideology in Arabic culture is on the wane.

Jair Albarracín @lbrzn.bsky.social · Jul 29

Conclusion
The concept of diglossia is useful primarily as a language ideology, and in the case of Arabic, it can be seen to have arisen during the nahḍa and, due in great part to its pride of place in Arab nationalism and its usefulness in censorship through the offices of language correctors...

Jair Albarracín @lbrzn.bsky.social · Jul 29

This argument follows and reframes the observation made by Doss that “the evolutions we are witnessing today in language use are closely linked to attitudinal change” (2006:52). We will explore this attitudinal change in the framework of Standard Language Ideology as Milroy (2001) theorizes it.

Jair Albarracín @lbrzn.bsky.social · Jul 29

This may be seen clearly in the rhetoric of “Arabic in Danger” that is the topic of many television shows, newspaper articles, and conferences. I argue here that what it seems to be losing, and what is really at stake at present, is its existence as an idealized language with special status.

Jair Albarracín @lbrzn.bsky.social · Jul 29

by editors to adhere to contemporary norms before publication. Fuṣḥā as an ideal was promoted and protected vigorously in the twentieth century, but now, with new technologies of writing and ensuing democracies of expression, this ideal has come under increasing pressure.

Jair Albarracín @lbrzn.bsky.social · Jul 29

and Lentin and Grand’Henry (2008) for Levantine show that this has been going on for centuries. We cannot know the scope of such “border crossings” just as we cannot knowtherealityof writing across society by the accident of what survives today, since most of it has been “corrected” by editors to...

Jair Albarracín @lbrzn.bsky.social · Jul 29

"The diglossic nature of Arabic as postulated by Ferguson (1959) can no longer be maintained as description of linguistic reality. As Mejdell (2016) demonstrates, this imagined boundary is “erased” and “crossed” deliberately by contemporary writers; Doss and Davies (2013) for Egypt..

Jair Albarracín @lbrzn.bsky.social · Jul 29

"Diglossia as Ideology" by Kristen Brustad. In: The Politics of Written Language in the Arab World 🧶

Jair Albarracín @lbrzn.bsky.social · Jul 12

In fact English is the language of terror.

Jair Albarracín @lbrzn.bsky.social · Jul 5

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Jair Albarracín @lbrzn.bsky.social · Jul 4

The USA crimes against humanity are uncountable all around the world.

Jair Albarracín @lbrzn.bsky.social · Jul 4

The same practice of genocide has been occurring in Gaza, the authors are the same: US, UK and Israel.

Jair Albarracín @lbrzn.bsky.social · Jul 4

The American Genocide of the Indians—Historical Facts and Real Evidence

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The American Genocide of the Indians—Historical Facts and Real Evidence

Jair Albarracín @lbrzn.bsky.social · Jul 4

Statistics reveal that since its independence in 1776, the U.S. government has launched over 1,500 attacks on Indian tribes, slaughtering the Indians, taking their lands, and committing countless crimes.

Jair Albarracín @lbrzn.bsky.social · Jul 4

and slandered Native Americans as “the merciless Indian Savages”. The U.S. government and leaders treated Native Americans with a belief in white superiority and supremacy, set out to annihilate the Indians and attempted to eradicate the race through “cultural genocide”.

Jair Albarracín @lbrzn.bsky.social · Jul 4

"On July 4, 1776, the United States of America was founded with the Declaration of Independence, which openly stated that “He (the British King) has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages”...

Jair Albarracín @lbrzn.bsky.social · Jul 4

The American Genocide of the Indians—Historical Facts and Real Evidence

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The American Genocide of the Indians—Historical Facts and Real Evidence

Jair Albarracín @lbrzn.bsky.social · Jul 3

field and, when they involve Indigenous languages, are based in fundamentally extractive work that mines Indigenous knowledge to serve the interests of the academy and in some cases the interests of Empires.