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Author Amara, Muhammad

Title Politics and sociolinguistic reflexes : Palestinian border villages / Muhammad Hasan Amara
Published Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub., ©1999

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Description 1 online resource (xix, 261 pages) : illustrations, maps
Series Studies in bilingualism, 0928-1533 ; v. 19
Studies in bilingualism ; v. 19. 0928-1533
Contents POLITICS AND SOCIOLINGUISTIC REFLEXES; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of Contents; Dedication; Preface; List of Tables; List of Figures and Maps; CHAPTER 1. Politics and Sociolinguistic reflexes; CHAPTER 2. Political Changes and Socio-demographic Reflections; CHAPTER 3. Networks of Contact and Communication; CHAPTER 4. Political Economy; CHAPTER 5. Education as an Agent of Change; CHAPTER 6. Politics: The Palestinian Intifada; CHAPTER 7. The Language Situation; CHAPTER 8. Exploratory Studies of Natural Speech; CHAPTER 9. Phonological and Morphological Variation
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 v
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-233) and index
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Subject Sociolinguistics -- West Bank
Sociolinguistics -- Israel
Palestinian Arabs -- Languages
Language and languages -- Political aspects.
Languages in contact -- West Bank
Languages in contact -- Israel
Language and languages -- Political aspects
Languages in contact
Sociolinguistics
Politieke verandering.
Arabisch.
Palestijnen.
Israel
West Bank
Form Electronic book
LC no. 99022264
ISBN 9789027298867
9027298866
9781556199509
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9789027241283
9027241287
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9781282163089
9786612163081
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