عنوان

Androgynous content: Gender-inclusive language in Qur'anic Arabic and Egyptian Arabic

Number

TL48385

.Language of Text, Soundtrack etc

انگلیسی

Title Proper

Androgynous content: Gender-inclusive language in Qur'anic Arabic and Egyptian Arabic

General Material Designation

[Thesis]

First Statement of Responsibility

Mohamed Ahmed Mohamed Ahmed

Subsequent Statement of Responsibility

Deckert, Sharon K.

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Indiana University of Pennsylvania

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2015

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

285

Text of Note

Committee members: Farag, Waleed; Pagnucci, Gian

Text of Note

Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-321-98896-3

Dissertation or thesis details and type of degree

Ph.D.

Discipline of degree

English

Body granting the degree

Indiana University of Pennsylvania

Text preceding or following the note

2015

Text of Note

Nestled in a conceptual grid, the current linguistic study investigates gender-inclusive language in Qur'anic Arabic (QA), the Arabic variety of the Qur'an, the Book of Islam, and Egyptian Arabic (EA), the most ubiquitous variety of Arabic. As far as QA is concerned, the study seeks to offer an understanding of some controversial verses that have, in certain cases, been interpreted with a female-marginalizing patriarchal lens or with an extreme feminist lens, and, so, resulted in women's subjugation in the case of the former and critiquing the Qur'an for not being fair to women, in the latter. The study presents linguistic evidence that disproves claims of patriarchally-driven interpretations or extreme feminist ones. Verse analysis via Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) unravels what the data is actually about and offers a refutation of views that might lie beyond the bounds of reason, or justice. As far as EA is concerned, the study takes an action research turn. First, the study tries, via context-free data from EA, and contextualized EA data from numerous YouTube videos, to investigate the language change that some lexical items, like the nominal /Hadd/ "someone," underwent over the past decade or so; without any preceding language planning, a change in the form of novel ways of usage by EA users, especially within the Egyptian context. The study uses morphosyntax and semantic gender features to fathom this naturally-occurring change, then, pursues a more in-depth analysis of the data by using language engineering to maximize those lexical items' potential to yield more gender-inclusive uses, especially on the level of their syntax. Activating the semantic gender features of those items, paired with their grammatical gender features, allows for new further gender-inclusive techniques in constructions where those lexical items could occur. The study also offers a new gender-inclusive EA epicene and looks at job titles from a CDA perspective.

Linguistics; Action research; Semantic features; Syntax semantics relationship; Language change; Language usage; Videotape recordings; Arabic language; Language planning; Gender (Grammatical); Lexicon; Religious literature; Context; Feminism; Titles; Critical discourse analysis

Subject Term

Language, literature and linguistics;Action research;Egyptian arabic;Gender inclusive egyptian arabic epicene;Gender inclusive language;Job titles;Language engineering;Memetics;Quranic arabic;Semantic agreement;Social constric arabic;Uctionism

Naqvi, Erum

Deckert, Sharon K.

Subdivision

English

Indiana University of Pennsylvania

Call Number

1713693162; 3718850

Electronic name

p

[Thesis]

276903

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