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Democracy in contemporary Egyptian political discourse /
When politicians and pundits in the Middle East discuss democracy, do they mean it? Looking at public discourse about democracy in contemporary Egypt, Dunne proposes a fresh way of reading Arabic political discourse. She charts a method combining ethnographic research into communities of people prod...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés Arabic |
| Publicado: |
Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
John Benjamins,
©2003.
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| Colección: | Discourse approaches to politics, society, and culture ;
v. 6. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | When politicians and pundits in the Middle East discuss democracy, do they mean it? Looking at public discourse about democracy in contemporary Egypt, Dunne proposes a fresh way of reading Arabic political discourse. She charts a method combining ethnographic research into communities of people producing political discourse with investigation of the texts themselves, using tools from anthropology, pragmatics, and sociolinguistics -- a method with broad applicability to political discourse generally. Taking off from the premise that all discourse is based in social interaction, this book demonst. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (ix, 178 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789027294760 9027294763 |
| ISSN: | 1569-9463 ; |