A semiotics of Muslimness in China / Ibrar Bhatt.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bhatt, Ibrar, author.

Series:

Cambridge elements. Elements in applied linguistics 2633-5069.

Cambridge elements. Elements in applied linguistics, 2633-5069

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Chinese language--Transliteration into Arabic.

Chinese language.

Muslims--China--Language.

Muslims.

Arabic language--China.

Arabic language.

Hui (Chinese people)--China.

Hui (Chinese people).

Islam--China--History.

Islam.

Islam and state--China.

Islam and state.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (80 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2023.

Summary:

This Element examines the semiotics of Sino-Muslim heritage literacy in a way that integrates its Perso-Arabic textual qualities with broader cultural semiotic forms. Using data from images of the linguistic landscape of Sino-Muslim life alongside interviews with Sino-Muslims about their heritage, the author examines how signs of 'Muslimness' are displayed and manipulated in both covert and overt means in different contexts. In so doing the author offers a 'semiotics of Muslimness' in China and considers how forms of language and materiality have the power to inspire meanings and identifications for Sino-Muslims and understanding of their heritage literacy. The author employs theoretical tools from linguistic anthropology and an understanding of semiotic assemblage to demonstrate how signifiers of Chinese Muslimness are invoked to substantiate heritage and Sino-Muslim identity constructions even when its expression must be covert, liminal, and unconventional.

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ISBN:

9781009415910 (ebook)

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