Language and National Identity in Palestine
Representations of Power and Resistance in Gaza
Will be published approx. on 18. December 2017
Book
Hardback
320 pages
978-1-78453-604-6 (ISBN)
Description
Language is an important tool and symbol of Palestinian national identity. From resistance to Israel as an occupying power, to a mark of distinction from other social groups or rival Palestinian factions, language use in Palestine reflects the enormous upheaval in Palestinian society and the struggle for national identity in the wake of 1948. This book explores the role that language plays in the construction of national identities, and how socio-political conditions and discourse have shaped the Arabic of Gaza and the Palestinian territories as a speech community. Exploring Palestinian history, politics and culture through language, including divergences in the Arabic of Gaza and the West Bank, contact with Hebrew and the factional politics of Hamas and Fatah, it will be essential reading for scholars of Palestine, sociolinguistics, Arabic and the Middle East.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 138 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-78453-604-6 (9781784536046)
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Person
Atef Alshaer is a lecturer in Arabic Language and Culture at the University of Westminster. He has several publications on the Arab world in the fields of language, literature and politics. He was educated at Birzeit University in Palestine and the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, where he obtained his PhD and taught for a number of years. He is the author of Poetry and Politics in the Modern Arab World, and co-author of The Hizbullah Phenomenon: Politics and Communication.
Content
Acknowledgments....................................................................
Note on Translation an Transliteration.............................................
Maps
Map of Palestine and Map of the West Bank and Gaza...........................
Introduction.....................................................................
Chapter I. Palestine/Israel: Historical-Political background
Chapter II. Language and national identity
Chapter III: The Sociolinguistic landscape of Gaza: identity markers, variables and variants
Chapter IV: Discourse norms and Arabic and Hebrew in the Gazan perspective
Conclusion
Note on Translation an Transliteration.............................................
Maps
Map of Palestine and Map of the West Bank and Gaza...........................
Introduction.....................................................................
Chapter I. Palestine/Israel: Historical-Political background
Chapter II. Language and national identity
Chapter III: The Sociolinguistic landscape of Gaza: identity markers, variables and variants
Chapter IV: Discourse norms and Arabic and Hebrew in the Gazan perspective
Conclusion