Camelia Suleiman

Politics of Arabic in Israel (eBook, PDF)

A Sociolinguistic Analysis

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Produktbeschreibung

Arabic became a minority language overnight in Israel in 1948, as a result of the Palestinian exodus from their land that year. Although it remains an official language, along with Hebrew, Israel has made continued attempts to marginalize Arabic on the one hand and securitize it on the other. Camelia Suleiman delves into these tensions and contradictions, exploring how language policy and language choice both reflect and challenge political identities of Arabs and Israelis. She explores the historic context of Arabic in Israel, the attempts at minoritising, Orientalising and securitising the language, the Linguistic Landscape (LL) of Arabic in Israel, the effect of globalization, modernization and citizenship status on the status of Arabic, Hebrew as a language choice of (semi) autobiographic production of three Israeli authors who are native speakers of Arabic, and lastly, a comparison with the status of Arabic in both Jordan and Palestine (West Bank and Gaza Strip) where Arabic is the official language.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. September 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781474420877
• Artikelnr.: 54673272

Autorenporträt

Camelia Suleiman is Assistant Professor in the Department of Linguistics and Languages at Michigan State University. She is author of Language and Identity in the Israel-Palestine Conflict: The Politics of Self-Perception in the Middle East (2011).

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Historic Background
2. Orientalisation, Securitisation and Minoritisation of Arabic
3. The (in)Visibility of Arabic: The Linguistic Landscape
4. Modernisation, Globalisation and Citizenship
5. Autobiography and Language Choice
6. Arabic in Jordan and Palestine
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index