Reem Bassiouney
List of John Benjamins publications for which Reem Bassiouney plays a role.
Articles
Chapter 3. Religion and identity in modern Egyptian public discourse Applied Linguistics in the Middle East and North Africa: Current practices and future directions, Gebril, Atta (ed.), pp. 37–60 | Chapter
2017 In modern Egypt, language is used as the linchpin for an Egyptian identity that is perceived to be a coherent and holistic one. Public discourse tackles the thorny issue of religious differences between Christians and Muslims by using two strategies: foregrounding and backgrounding. That is, in… read more
Chapter 1. A new direction for Arabic sociolinguistics Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics XXIX: Papers from the Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 2015, Ouali, Hamid (ed.), pp. 7–30 | Chapter
2017 In this study, I explore three cases related to linguistic variation and the individual in the Egyptian sociopolitical context. In all three cases, linguistic variation and code choice are mediated not only through linguistic and sociolinguistic variables, but through an ideological process in… read more
Theories of Code Switching in the Light of Empirical Evidence from Egypt Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics: Papers from the Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics, Parkinson, Dilworth B. and Samira Farwaneh (eds.), pp. 19–39 | Chapter
2003