1st Edition

Palestinian-Israeli Contact and Linguistic Practices

By Nancy Hawker Copyright 2013
224 Pages
by Routledge

248 Pages
by Routledge

224 Pages
by Routledge

Offering insight into linguistic practices resulting from different kinds of Palestinian-Israeli contact, this book examines a specific conceptualisation of the link between the political and economic contexts and human practices, or between structure and agency, termed "articulation". The contexts of the military occupation, a shared consumer market, controlled cheap labour migration, and the... Read more
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

Biography

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.