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Author Hawker, Nancy, 1980- author.

Title The politics of Palestinian multilingualism : speaking for citizenship / Nancy Hawker
Published London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2019

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Description 1 online resource
Series The politics of language
Politics of language.
Contents Introduction: a discourse-analytical exploration of the citizenship of palestinians -- 1. The contestation of Arabic on Zionist stages -- 2. Linguistically navigating 'mixed' social settings in contexts of segregation -- 3. Expressing styles for discursive authority -- 4. Anxious attitudes, confident practices: The ambivalence of late capitalism -- Conclusion: The political scientist is the sociolinguist's friend
Summary The Politics of Palestinian Multilingualism: Speaking for Citizenship provides an essential contribution to understanding the politics of Israel/Palestine through the prism of sociolinguistics and discourse analysis. Arabic-speakers who also know Hebrew resort to a range of communicative strategies for their political ideas to be heard: they either accommodate or resist the Israeli institutional suppression of Arabic. They also codeswitch and borrow from Hebrew as well as from Arabic registers and styles in order to mobilise discursive authority. On political and cultural stages, multilingual Palestinian politicians and artists challenge the existing political structures. In the late capitalist market, language skills are re-packaged as commodified resources. With new evidence from recent and historical discourse, this book is about how speakers of a marginalised, contained language engage with the political system in the idioms at their disposal. The Politics of Palestinian Multilingualism: Speaking for Citizenship is key reading for advanced students and scholars of multilingualism, language contact, ideology, and policy, within sociolinguistics, anthropology, politics, and Middle Eastern studies
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 176-189) and index
Notes Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force. WlAbNL
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Subject Multilingualism -- Political aspects
Languages in contact -- Middle East
Bilingualism -- Middle East
Arabic language -- Dialects -- Palestine
Arabic language -- Dialects -- Israel
Language and culture -- Palestine
Language and culture -- Israel
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Cultural Policy
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture
Arabic language -- Dialects
Bilingualism
Language and culture
Languages in contact
Multilingualism -- Political aspects
Israel
Middle East
Middle East -- Palestine
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2020693608
ISBN 9780429535857
0429535856
0429260237
9780429260230
9780429522383
042952238X
9780429550553
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