Political language and politics of language in Muslim societies of the Middle East and South Asia

Nurullah Ardiç (Istanbul Şehir University, Turkey) Same Discourse for Opposite Ends: Islamists vs. Secularists on the Fate of Religion in Turkey

Jeniri Amir (University of Malaysia, Sarawak, Malaysia) Muslim World in Malaysian Newspapers: International News Agency Coverage

Pavel V. Bronnikov (Embassy of the Russian Federationin Bangladesh, Dhaah) & Irina T. Prokofieva (Moscow State Institute of International Relations, Moscow), Unity and Conflict of Oppositions: the language and religious self-identification of the Eastern Bengalese 

Lola N. Dodkhudoeva (Institute of Oriental Studies and Textual Heritage of the Republic of Tajikistan, Dushanbe), The “Najot” Newspaper as the mirror of Social and Political Changes in Tajikistan Republic (2000-2010)”

Anna L. Filimonova (the Institute of Asian and African Studies of the Lomonosov Moscow State University) The Urdu Language as a Means of Consolidation of the Pakistan Nation

Elena L. Gladkova (Moscow State Institute of International Relations, Moscow) Language of Politics, the Language of State Power as reflected in the Constitution of Islamic Republic of Iran.

Marina S. Kameneva (The Institute of Oriental studies, Moscow) The Impact of Globalization process on the Language Development in Iran (XX century – beginning of XXI)”

Awang Azman Awang Pawi (University  of Malaysia, Sarawak, Malaysia)  «The Politics of Language in Postcolonial Malaysia: The Impact Between Islamization  and Globalization  Toward  National Ideology»

Elena V. Semenova (Moscow State Institute of International Relations, Moscow) The Law “On State Language of Republic of Tajikistan” (Central Press of Tajikistan Coverage)”

Yoginder S. Sikand (Centre for the Study of Social Exclusion, National Law School, Bangalore) The Emergence and Development of the Jama‘at-i-Islami of Jammu and Kashmir.

Andrei V. Shtanov (Moscow State Institute of International Relations, Moscow) Lexical and Grammatical Features of Political Discourse in Turkish Language

 

Description of the panel

The language is one of the most important instruments of  politics and politicians. The language of politics is an instrument which serves the interests of various political  groups and different political goals and intentions, has the impact on political events and produces political effect.

 The language of politics (also regarded by many scientists as political discourse) includes wide range of resources and several aspects of  study such as:

a)      linguistic aspect (lexical, stylistic, semantic, neological etc.)

b)      sociolinguistic aspect (for instance, the aspect of the language of power: ideological, sociological, axiological, metaphors and rhetoric).

The politics of  language deals with the policy towards the language in various states including such aspects as:

a)      official language in government, education and law

b)      language conflicts

c)      script conflicts

d)      language influence on the power

e)      the language of politics as a political issue

f)        national language police in globalizing world.

All above-mentioned aspects form the wide field of research of  Arabic, Persian, Turkish, Urdu, Dari, Pashto and other languages of Middle East and South Asia as well as the politics of language in the Muslim countries.

Conveners:

Elena L. Gladkova (Moscow State Institute of International Relationship of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs)