<html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=Windows-1252"> <style type="text/css" style="display:none;"> P {margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;} </style> </head> <body dir="ltr"> <div style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> FOS and Socio Lab, this upcoming talk by Brahim Chakrani may be of interest, especially to anyone working on style and accommodation, language attitudes, and/or Arabic.</div> <div style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> <br> </div> <div style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> Best,</div> <div style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> Suzanne</div> <div> <div style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> <br> </div> <div id="appendonsend"></div> <hr tabindex="-1" style="display:inline-block; width:98%"> <div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" color="#000000" style="font-size:11pt"><b>From:</b> ll-ts <ll-ts-bounces@egr.msu.edu> on behalf of Lin, Yen-Hwei <liny@msu.edu><br> <b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, November 3, 2020 11:03 PM<br> <b>To:</b> ll-ts@egr.msu.edu <ll-ts@egr.msu.edu>; ll-ft@egr.msu.edu <ll-ft@egr.msu.edu><br> <b>Subject:</b> Dr. Brahim Chakrani's Lecture on language accommodation on Nov. 17th</font> <div> </div> </div> <div> <div class="" style="word-wrap:break-word; line-break:after-white-space"> <meta content="text/html; charset=utf-8" class=""> <div dir="auto" class="" style="word-wrap:break-word; line-break:after-white-space"> <div class="">Dear Colleagues, </div> <div class=""><br class=""> </div> <div class="">Dr. Brahim Chakrani, our colleague in the Arabic program, has been scheduled to give a presentation on language accommodation at the Muslim Studies Program, co-sponsored by our department, Asian Studies Center and James Madison College. See the information below and the attached flyer. Please share the event widely with your students and interested colleagues, and I hope you will be able to participate also. </div> <div class=""><br class=""> </div> <div class="">Best,</div> <div class="">Yen-Hwei</div> <div class=""><br class=""> </div> <div class=""><br class=""> </div> <div class="">-----</div> <div class=""><br class=""> </div> <div class=""> <div class="x_x_page" title="Page 1"> <div class="x_x_section" style="background-color:rgb(100.000000%,100.000000%,100.000000%)"> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div><img style="max-width: 100%; height: auto;" data-outlook-trace="F:1|T:1" src="cid:8296e564-47b9-4aa4-8500-52f9acac86cc@namprd12.prod.outlook.com"> </div> <div style="word-wrap:break-word; line-break:after-white-space"> <meta content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <div dir="auto" style="word-wrap:break-word; line-break:after-white-space"> <div class=""> <div class="x_x_page" title="Page 1"> <div class="x_x_section" style="background-color:rgb(100.000000%,100.000000%,100.000000%)"> <div class="x_x_layoutArea"> <div class="x_x_column"> <p class=""><span class="" style="font-size:16.000000pt; font-family:'VinerHandITC'">The MSU Muslim Studies Program presents </span></p> <p class=""><span class="" style="font-size:28.000000pt; font-family:'Algerian'; color:rgb(0.000000%,69.000000%,31.400000%)">Language accommodation </span></p> <p class=""><span class="" style="font-size:24.000000pt; font-family:'TimesNewRomanPS'; font-weight:700">Analyzing the Role of Attitudes in Interdialectal Arabic Encounters </span></p> <p class=""><span class="" style="font-size:16.000000pt; font-family:'BaskOldFace'">featuring </span></p> <p class=""><span class="" style="font-size:22.000000pt; font-family:'TimesNewRomanPS'; font-weight:700">Brahim Chakrani </span><span class="" style="font-size:16.000000pt; font-family:'TimesNewRomanPS'; font-weight:700">Associate Professor of Arabic Michigan State University </span></p> <p class=""><span class="" style="font-size:18.000000pt; font-family:'BernardMT'; color:rgb(100.000000%,0.000000%,0.000000%)">Tuesday, November 17 12:00pm-1:30pm on Zoom </span></p> <p class=""><span class="" style="font-size:18.000000pt; font-family:'BernardMT'">Free registration at </span></p> <p class=""><span class="" style="font-size:18.000000pt; font-family:'BernardMT'; color:rgb(0.000000%,0.000000%,100.000000%)"><a href="https://muslimstudies.isp.msu.edu/about/reg-links" class="">https://muslimstudies.isp.msu.edu/about/reg-links</a> </span></p> <p class=""><span class="" style="font-size:13.000000pt; font-family:'Calibri'; font-weight:700">In this talk, I will examine patterns of interdialectal language accommodation among Arabic speakers in the U.S. This study contributes to Communication Accommodation Theory (CAT) by demonstrating that speakers’ motivation to accommodate is predicated on their attitudes toward the different Arabic varieties. Using data from natural conversations, personal interviews, and ethnographic observations, this research shows that language attitudes affect the degree of a speaker’s convergence or divergence toward their interlocutors. The theoretical undertaking of this study is to show the connection between micro-level accommodative strategies and macro- societal relationships that arrange the asymmetrical relationship between different Arabic varieties and their speakers. </span></p> <p class=""><span class="" style="font-size:15.000000pt; font-family:'BernardMT'">Organized by the Muslim Studies Program and cosponsored by the Department of Linguistics and Germanic, Slavic, Asian, and African Languages; Asian Studies Center; and James Madison College </span></p> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class=""><br class=""> </div> <div class=""><br class=""> </div> <div class=""></div> </div> </div> <div class="" style="word-wrap:break-word; line-break:after-white-space"> <div dir="auto" class="" style="word-wrap:break-word; line-break:after-white-space"> <div class=""></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </body> </html>