Naima Boussofara
List of John Benjamins publications for which Naima Boussofara plays a role.
2017 Chapter 2. When the president loses his voice, the people capture speech Applied Linguistics in the Middle East and North Africa: Current practices and future directions, Gebril, Atta (ed.), pp. 11–35 | Chapter
The chapter examines political speeches as the locus for failure to promote allegiance or to silence ‘dissident’ voices in situations of conflict and resistance. Specifically, it explores how Ben Ali, former president of Tunisia, fails to renew the masses’ ‘loyalty of silence’ during the… read more
2011 Bleaching a dialectal voice in political discourse: Sociolinguistic choices in re-writing political speeches Journal of Language and Politics 10:2, pp. 204–226 | Article
In 1973, former President of Tunisia, Habib Bourguiba delivered nine speeches in which he recounted episodes of the national movement. Even though delivered in an official setting and to a highly educated audience, the semi-planned speeches were delivered in the dialectal variety of Arabic, i.e.… read more
2006 Learning the ‘linguistic habitus’ of a politician: A presidential authoritative voice in the making Journal of Language and Politics 5:3, pp. 325–358 | Article
In this essay, I analyze the changes that were brought to the handwritten draft of the first political address that Ben Ali, the current president of Tunisia (then the newly appointed Prime Minister), delivered on November 7, 1987 across the airwaves, to announce the deposition of President… read more
2005 Political Transition, Linguistic Shift: How a political communiqué (bayaan) has come to be what it is Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics: Papers from the annual symposium on Arabic linguistics, Alhawary, Mohammad T. and Elabbas Benmamoun (eds.), pp. 195–224 | Article