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CANCELLED: Policing Dialect Loyalty: Style and Ideologies of Language and Gender in Moroccan Digital Discourse – Atiqa Hachimi
March 20, 2020 @ 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Free*This event has been cancelled and will be rescheduled for Fall 2020.*
Language serves a symbolic function in society as an expression of such concepts as power, gender and identity. Social actors produce and reproduce particular identities, as well as gender and power relations through their language use and language choices. The Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures presents this talk as part of the Spring 2020 series “Language, Gender, and Identity in the Arab World.”
Atiqa Hachimi is an Associate Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies and African Studies at the University of Toronto. Her research focuses on social and language change in the Arabic-speaking world. Her current research project looks at the sociolinguistics of globalization and transnational identities in the Arab world. With the digital and transnational Arabic-speaking world as backdrop, she explores language ideologies and hierarchies between North Africa and the Arabic-speaking Middle East, leading her to coin the term “The Maghreb-Mashreq language ideology.” She has published numerous articles and book chapters. They have appeared in top-tier journals, including Journal of Sociolinguistics, Language in Society, and Social and Cultural Geography.
This event is free and open to the public. Sponsored by the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures and the Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere.