Words and Stones The Politics of Language and Identity in Israel

Name: Words and Stones The Politics of Language and Identity in Israel
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ISBN: 9780195121902

ISBN-10: 0195121902

ISBN-13: 9780195121902

Edition: 2004

Authors: Daniel Lefkowitz

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Social and ethnic identity are nowhere more enmeshed with language than in Israel. Words and Stones explores the politics of identity in Israel through an analysis of the social life of language. By examining the social choices Israelis make when they speak, and the social meanings such choices produce, Daniel Lefkowitz reveals how Israeli identities are negotiated through language. Lefkowitz studies three major languages and their role in the social lives of Israelis: Hebrew, the dominant language, Arabic, and English. He reveals their complex interrelationship by showing how the language a speaker chooses to use is as important as the language they choose not to use - in the same way that…

Book details

List price: $74.00
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 7/22/2004
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 336
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.50" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.386
Language: English



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Negotiations and identities



Negotiations of memory and space



Theoretical frameworks for linguistic negotiations of identity



Narrating the crosscultural encounter



The social organization of language learning in Israel



Tropes of identity in public culture



Phonology and the negotiation of Arab identity



Intonation and the negotiation of Sabra identity



Conclusion : negotiations, dialogues, power, and language