Upcoming Events
4:00pm - 5:30pm
LN 2200 (Alpern Room)
Speaker: Maher Bahloul, Binghamton University
Chair: Omid Ghaemmaghami, Binghamton University
Discussant: Greg Key, Binghamton University
"This talk highlights the results of an initial investigation where ‘native’ speakers of the Pidgin Arabic language show a great deal of perplexity between private and public use of the language (Dorian, 2010), between the language’s necessity and luxury, and between its high and low prestige, all intertwined within a communicative context shaped by nativity, need, and social status. It is a psychological and sociolinguistic situation where reticence, fear, and courage play salient roles vis-à-vis this new emerging language. Results of previous and current surveys show such mixed attitudes towards this Pidgin language with some wishing it had never existed and others championing its founders, its speakers, and putting it at the forefront of a number of emerging filmmaking and digital platforms."
Maher Bahloul holds a Ph.D. from Cornell University in Linguistics and an MA in Linguistics from Sorbonne University in Paris, France. He has taught courses in language (English, Arabic, and French), translation, and linguistics for the past 30 years. He is currently a Lecturer at the Department of Middle East and Ancient Mediterranean Studies.
Light refreshments will be served.
Chair: Omid Ghaemmaghami, Binghamton University
Discussant: Greg Key, Binghamton University
"This talk highlights the results of an initial investigation where ‘native’ speakers of the Pidgin Arabic language show a great deal of perplexity between private and public use of the language (Dorian, 2010), between the language’s necessity and luxury, and between its high and low prestige, all intertwined within a communicative context shaped by nativity, need, and social status. It is a psychological and sociolinguistic situation where reticence, fear, and courage play salient roles vis-à-vis this new emerging language. Results of previous and current surveys show such mixed attitudes towards this Pidgin language with some wishing it had never existed and others championing its founders, its speakers, and putting it at the forefront of a number of emerging filmmaking and digital platforms."
Maher Bahloul holds a Ph.D. from Cornell University in Linguistics and an MA in Linguistics from Sorbonne University in Paris, France. He has taught courses in language (English, Arabic, and French), translation, and linguistics for the past 30 years. He is currently a Lecturer at the Department of Middle East and Ancient Mediterranean Studies.
Light refreshments will be served.
4:00pm - 5:30pm
LN 2200 (Alpern Room)
Lecture title: "Under the Same Sky: Everyday Politics of Religious Difference in Turkey"
Speaker: Secil Dagtas, Associate Professor of Anthropology at Waterloo University
Speaker: Secil Dagtas, Associate Professor of Anthropology at Waterloo University
