ANTB21H3 Lecture Notes - Centripetal Force
Document Summary
Brings up media and what happens when you communicate through it. Brings up issue of globalization . what seems to be an issue in 1 part of global may replicate in other parts. What makes nation common language, particular territory, culture (not enough), religious identification, historical events (remembrance day), shared beliefs, having shared experienced things. Classical arabic indexes religious leaders speaking in religious context in particular: People remember the difficult grammar lessons from school with fear and humour. Even editor worries that a learned cleric will discover he makes mistakes (knowledge of islam implied) Egyptian arabic indexes the nation speaking in everyday contexts: Used by everyone in their daily lives. Most popular culture (e. g. , tv, movies and music) use egyptian arabic. Standard english in us, historically (shirley brice-heath 1980) late 18th - early 19th c. Ambivalence to standardization, see value of dialects. Wanted natural language and not rules from latin or greek.
