Communities of Code-Switching Connoisseurs
Multilingualism in Islamic Sermons in Bangladesh
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2634839 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Max Stille (0000-0001-8191-5541, Max Planck Society, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Publication date | 2018-02-28 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | South Asia Multidisciplinary Academic Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1960-6060 • E-ISSN: 1960-6060 |
| Publisher | OpenEdition (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.4000/samaj.4485 |
| OpenAlex | W2788879667 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 16 |
Code-switching is a universal phenomenon of community formation. Religious speech switches between different registers and codes, expanding its possibilities. In South Asia, the pleasure of including different codes and languages is, at the same time, a characteristic of poetic messages, of popular culture and linguistic systems. This paper considers the code-switching in Islamic sermons in contemporary Bangladesh (waz mahfils), which are characterized by a stress on oral performance and communal experience. On the basis of a theoretical introduction into the terminology of code-switching and its rhetorical and poetic expansion, different levels of code-switching in the sermons are analyzed. These range from switches between individual words (mostly from Arabic, Urdu and Bengali), to binding together of several sentences by vocal techniques. From the perspective of code-switching in performance, “formal” translation mechanisms in the sermons, most prominently translations from the Qurʾān, can be evaluated anew. As opposed to a point of view that argumentation and persuasion of the sermons are derived from the Qurʾān as a “scripture”, the inclusion of Qurʾānic quotations into the dynamics of multilingual code-switching and its aesthetic effects emphasizes a poetic form of evidence building on word-play and dramatic script
Bengali · Code-switching · Linguistics · Persuasion · Pleasure · Poetry · Programming language · Rhetorical question · Sociology · Terminology · Urdu · Bangladesh Politics, Society, and Development · Computer Science · Multilingual Education and Policy · Philosophy · Psychology · Swearing, Euphemism, Multilingualism · Artificial Intelligence
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Discourse Strategies
| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2026 (4) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |