Palestinian-Israeli Contact and Linguistic Practices

ISBN-13: 9780415824170 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 248 str.

Nancy Hawker

Opis

Offering insight into linguistic practices resulting from different kinds of Israeli-Palestinian contact, this book examines a specific conceptualisation of the link between the political and economic contexts and human practices, and between structure and agency.

These contexts provide the setting for power relations between Israelis and Palestinians which give rise to a variety of practices of borrowing. Among these practices is the borrowing of Hebrew words and phrases for use in the Palestinians Arabic speech. The use of Hebrew demarcates in-groups, signals aspirations to a modern lifestyle, and gives a political edge to humour. Nancy Hawker s explanation for these practices moves away from the notions of conflict and national identity and gives prominence to Palestinian and Israeli ideologies that inform the conceptual experience of Palestinians.

Addressing an understudied linguistic situation, "Israeli-Palestinian Contact and Linguistic Practices" brings us documentation and analysis of recent casework, firmly anchored in empirical results from fieldwork in three refugee camps in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. Combining sociolinguistics with politics, economics, sociology and philosophy this book will be of great interest to students and scholars of Middle East Studies, Linguistics and Political Theory.

Spis treści

Introduction 1 Social Context 2 Interpersonal Context 3 Patterns of Lexical Borrowing: By Type of Contact 4 Patterns of Lexical Borrowing and Codeswitching: by function 5 Describing and Modelling language Change 6 Conclusion

O autorze

Nancy Hawker, MA (SOAS), DPhil (Oxon), has been travelling to the Middle East since 1998 and lived there for several years. Besides sociolinguistics, she has studied social and political theory, and Arab and Israeli histories and literatures. She knows Arabic, Czech, English, French and Hebrew.