Multilingual Arabic: Thinking Beyond Diglossia

We move beyond diglossia to Bakhtinian heteroglossia to consider the politics and aesthetics of dialogic playfulness. How do actors play with (non)official, (non)standard, local and/or transnational social registers, and to what artful purposes? 250-word abstracts.

Deadline for submissions: Monday, 15 March 2021

Emily Drumsta, Brown U (drumsta@austin.utexas.edu )