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...