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The politics of Arabic in Israel : a sociolinguistic analysis /

Although it remains an official language, 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 id...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Suleiman, Camelia (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2018.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Intro; The Politics of Arabic In Israel; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Historic Background; Arab Intellectual Thought during the Arab Nahda and its Aftermath; Zionism as a National Movement; Where does Palestinian Identity End and Israeli Identity Begin? Setting the Boundaries for the State Identity; The Boundaries of Palestinian Arabic; 2 Orientalisation, Securitisation and Minoritisation of Arabic; The (Re)Production of Knowledge of Arabic and the Orient in the Israeli Academia; Arabic Departments in Israeli Universities
  • Arabic in the Knesset: The Case of (MK) Ahmad TibiInterviews during Fieldwork; 3 The (in)Visibility of Arabic: The Linguistic Landscape; Arabs and Nationality in Israel: Minoritised People, Minoritised Language; The Linguistic Landscape of Arabic; 4 Modernisation, Globalisation and Citizenship in Israel; Azmi Bishara: An Alternative View of Citizenship; Changes in the Israeli Political Scene; What does an Official Language Mean?; Bilingual Schools; The Case for Aramaic; 5 Autobiography and Language Choice; Sasson Somekh; Anton Shammas; Sayed Kashua
  • Juxtaposition of Somekh, Shammas and Kashua: When Someone Gives Up a Language, is it Considered a Loss? And by Whom?The Arab Jew; 6 Arabic in Jordan and Palestine; 'Can the Subaltern Speak?' The Andrew Shryock-Joseph Massad Debate; The (Re)Production of Knowledge on Arabic; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index