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1 online resource |
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Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of tables; Acknowledgements; Note on dialect and transcription; Introduction; 0.1 The research question and its assumptions; 0.2 Summary of contents; 0.3 Methodology and ethical standards for the fieldwork; 0.4 Researcher's background; 1.Social context; 1.1 Palestinian refugee history; 1.2 Shuafat refugee camp; 1.3 Dheisheh refugee camp; 1.4 Tulkarem refugee camp; 1.5 Palestinian migrant work in Israel; 1.6 Experience of Israeli prisons; 1.7 Large-scale context and small-scale context; 2.Interpersonal context |
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2.1 The observer's paradox2.1.1 Positivism: the researcher is an objective 'fly on the wall'; 2.1.2 Accommodation theory: the tendency to focus on individual instances; 2.1.3 Fieldwork in practice: a compromise between participating agent and detached observer; 2.2 A personal account of patterns of interactions; 2.2.1 Women of the middle generation (1967 generation); 2.2.2 Women of the eldest generation (1948 generation); 2.2.3 Women of the Intifada generation; 2.2.4 Men of the 1967 generation; 2.2.5 Men of the 1948 generation; 2.2.6 Men of the Intifada generation |
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2.3 A foreign researcher: a relative advantage2.4 How to enter the camps and meet people: the importance of introductions; 2.4.1 Shuafat refugee camp; 2.4.2 Dheisheh refugee camp; 2.4.3 Tulkarem refugee camp; 2.5 'Don't mention the war': eliciting Hebrew without speaking Hebrew; 2.6 Conclusion regarding the effect of this particular interviewer on the study: a minimal picture of Hebrew borrowings; 3.Patterns of lexical borrowing; 3.1 Contact between Israelis and Palestinians in the context of the economy and the state; 3.2 Contact setting: work; 3.2.1 Tools |
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3.2.2 Unmarked borrowing: menahel (manager)3.2.3 Good relations with Israeli managers; 3.3 Contact setting: the market for Israeli products and technology; 3.4 Contact setting: Jerusalem social services; 3.5 Contact setting: the military occupation; 3.5.1 Unmarked borrowings: mahsōm (checkpoint), maxšīr (walkie-talkie); 3.6 Hebrew borrowings: evidence of limited types of contact between Palestinians and Israelis; 4. Patterns of lexical borrowing and codeswitching: by function; 4.1Function in sociolinguistics; 4.2 Convenient communication among in-groups |
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4.2.1 The political prisoners' 'in-group'4.2.2 The day-migrant workers' 'in-group'; 4.3 Speech behaviour signalling modern lifestyle; 4.3.1 'Good boys' don't get the girls: rebelling against social norms; 4.3.2 Wanting the good life; 4.3.3 Discourse markers kvar, dafka, bidiyuk; 4.3.4 Older people can be 'cool' too; 4.4 The ironic subversion of power; 4.4.1 'The boss'; 4.5 Is it justified to classify Hebrew borrowings by function?; 5.Describing and modelling language change; 5.1 Key concepts in the analysis of linguistic borrowing |
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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 provision of social services, supply the setting for power relations between Israelis and Palestinians which give rise to a variety of linguistic practices. Among these practices is the borro |
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Languages in contact -- Middle East
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Bilingualism -- Middle East
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Arabic language -- Dialects -- Palestine
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Arabic language -- Dialects -- Israel
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Arabic language -- Dialects
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Bilingualism
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Languages in contact
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Israel
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Middle East
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Middle East -- Palestine
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
1299658121 |
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9781299658127 |
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