IF YOU WANT TO BE JUST YOU BETTER BE QUICK: PERCEPTIONS OF A JUST RETALIATION IN THE DISCOURSE OF THE EGYPTIAN ARAB SPRING
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Abstract
Almost from the onset of the Egyptian uprising of 2011, the call for QIṢĀṢ (RETALIATION) was among its most popular slogans. Evidently, QIṢĀṢ appears to be one of the key concepts that shape the Egyptian revolutionary discourse. It is so significant that it may even be seen as a marker that defines the temporal limits of this discourse, as the manner and context, in which QIṢĀṢ is used in the mainstream media, change with the transition from what could be described as revolutionary period back to the authoritarian
regime. The proposed article analyzes the functioning of QIṢĀṢ in the Egyptian revolutionary discourse in the context of three most frequent attributive collocations with adjectives ‘ādil (just), sarī‘ (speedy, fast), ‘ājil (immediate) and nājiz (prompt, complete), which reflect the culturally embedded beliefs regarding what constitutes a just retaliation as well the manner, in which it should be performed.
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Be Just You Better Be Quick, Discourse, Egyptian Arab Spring, Perceptions of a Just Retaliation
Bogomolov A. Bread, Dignity, Justice and… Retaliation: the concept of QIṢĀṢ and the values of the Egyptian revolution// Сходознавство, 2014а, № 67.
Bogomolov A. (2014b), Constructing Political Other in the Discourse of the Egyptian Arab Spring // Scripta Neophilologica Posnaniensia. Tom XIV. 2014b.
Fillmore Charles J. Frames and the semantics of understanding // Quaderni di semantica, Vol. VI, No. 2. 1985.
Wierzbicka Anna. English: Meaning and Culture. Oxford University Press, 2006.
REFERENCES
Bogomolov A. (2014a), “Bread, Dignity, Justice and… Retaliation: the concept of QIṢĀṢ and the values of the Egyptian revolution”, Shodoznavstvo, No. 67, pp. 20–38.
Bogomolov A. (2014b), “Constructing Political Other in the Discourse of the Egyptian Arab Spring, Scripta Neophilologica Posnaniensia, Tom XIV, pp. 7–31.
Fillmore Charles J. (1985), “Frames and the semantics of understanding”, Quaderni di semantica, Vol. VI, No. 2, December, pp. 222–254.
Wierzbicka Anna (2006), English: Meaning and Culture, Oxford University Press.
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