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What is hegemony?
Whether you've read or not, you probably know about these famous snacks and their relationship to multilingualism and indexicality.
What are Lay's and Chipsy?
If you have discourse about language and its speakers, you probably also have these beliefs and attitudes about them.
What are language ideologies?
Safia Elhillo was about to be called something else, a name you'd confuse for a certain World Religions teacher in our school.
What is Yasmeen?
We all know the American granddaughter is Zeina, but this is the name of her "definitely" Iraqi grandmother.
Who is Rahma?
This paralinguistic feature is usually measured by "high" or "low". If misunderstood, you can even play football in it.
What is pitch?
This person would likely prefer a croissant to foul medammas, own cards they know nothing about, and favor their mother's side over their father's at the family hangout.
Who is Aline?
Self and Other, winners and losers, cosmopolitan and traditional, East and West, Iraqi and American, masculine and feminine, all these are examples of discourse that utilizes this concept.
What is binary opposition?
Odes, elegies, gossip, and even tired taxi convos from the backseat can all be considered a type of this; something that Safia often likes to break the conventions of.
What is a speech genre?
This 'multilingual' term is perfect to describe how Zeina switches between MSA, Iraqi Arabic, and American English in her narration.
What is heteroglossia?
This is a group of people who share a set of linguistic norms, patterns, and expectations regarding how they use and interpret language.
What is a speech community?
Even as it is important to remember for Cairene kids that they're Arab and Muslim, this particular device features a lot in Y2K Arab magazines to remind kids that they're also "part of the future".
What is the computer?
The forceful replacement of a culture's own signifiers, symbols, and even its values and morality..
What is symbolic violence?
This grim phrase of just two words is the most repeated one in "Modern Sudanese Poetry", darkly filling out all the caesuras and gaps.
What is "my dead"?
There are bad situationships, and then there are choices like a couch potato Michigander and a Shia jihadist. These are the names of the two men who serve as Zeina's primary love interests.
What are Calvin and Muhaymin?
Focused on the message itself rather than the speaker, receiver, or context, this function is all about the aesthetics and beauty of how you can say something.
What is the poetic function?
If you have enough 'cosmopolitan' symbolic capital, you are no longer seen in the indexical category of (a) ______, but instead as part of (b) ___________. But don't get too (b), because then you'd be (c) ______. (Hint: all terms are in Cairene Arabic)
What are "bi'a", "wilad en-nas" and "mitfarnagin"?
This is the "bigger" version of a discourse, one that includes several other discourses under its umbrella. It was used a few times in CIC.
What is a metadiscourse?
Casts, 'quick' stereotypes, and a city that likely has really good chocolate. These are all indexes of this poem.
What is "Geneva"?
Though her main character is a political refugee to the US, Inaam Kachachi herself migrated to this other country to get a PhD in journalism.
What is France?
This is a symbolic representation that physically resembles its signified. We can also consider Ustaz Anas one.
What is an icon?
The confusion of these two letters in English by some Arabic speakers is something that 'cosmopolitan' young Egyptians frequently make fun of on their Facebook groups, often captioning it with "only in Egypt".
What are p and b?
This bald Frenchman is behind much of why we think about discourse.
Who is Michel Foucault?
This country features three times in our collection: the nationality of a certain landlord, the original home of a problematic crush, and the setting of a vacation destination that has some racist kids. Name the poems, too!
What is Greece? The poems: "Terra Nullius", "Orpheus", "Syros".
This satirical charting song serves Zeina as a frame story in the journalistic genre as she explores with us how bad the Americans actually feel about the Iraq War.
What is "Stick a Magnetic Ribbon on Your SUV" by the Asylum Street Spankers?