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Politics and sociolinguistic reflexes : Palestinian border villages / Muhammad Hasan Amara.
Van Pelt Library P40.45.W47 A43 1999
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Amara, Muhammad.
- Series:
- Studies in bilingualism 0928-1533 ; v. 19.
- Studies in bilingualism, 0928-1533 ; v. 19
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sociolinguistics--West Bank.
- Sociolinguistics.
- Sociolinguistics--Israel.
- Palestinian Arabs--Languages.
- Palestinian Arabs.
- Language and languages--Political aspects.
- Language and languages.
- Languages in contact--West Bank.
- Languages in contact.
- Languages in contact--Israel.
- Israel.
- West Bank.
- Physical Description:
- xix, 261 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub., [1999]
- Summary:
- This sociolinguistic study describes and analyzes an Israeli Palestinian border village in the Little Triangle and another village artificially divided between Israel and the West Bank, tracing the political transformations that they have undergone, and the accompanying social and cultural changes. These political, social and cultural forces have resulted in distinctive sociolinguistic patterns. The primary explanation offered for the persisting linguistic frontier found in rural Palestinian communities is the continuing social, political, economic and cultural differences between Palestinian villages in Israel, and Palestinian villages in the West Bank. In the geopolitical and economic history of the villages, these distinctions have been maintained by the dissimilar treatment received by the two communities and their inhabitants under Israeli government policy. Exacerbated by the Palestinian Intifada, the relations of the Palestinian divided communities to each other and to the rest of the world have produced noticeable differences in economic, educational and cultural development. The sociolinguistic facts revealed in the language situation in the villages are study shown to be correlated with political and demographic differences.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [217]-233) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1556199503
- 9027241287
- OCLC:
- 41565007
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