The Politics of Arabic in Israel : : A Sociolinguistic Analysis.

• Author: Suleiman, Camelia.
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press,, 2017.; Ã2017.
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (241 pages)

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Table of Contents

Intro -- The Politics of Arabic In Israel -- Copyright -- Contents -- Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 Historic Background -- Arab Intellectual Thought during the Arab Nahda and its Aftermath -- Zionism as a National Movement -- Where does Palestinian Identity End and Israeli Identity Begin? Setting the Boundaries for the State Identity -- The Boundaries of Palestinian Arabic -- 2 Orientalisation, Securitisation and Minoritisation of Arabic -- The (Re)Production of Knowledge of Arabic and the Orient in the Israeli Academia -- Arabic Departments in Israeli Universities -- Arabic in the Knesset: The Case of (MK) Ahmad Tibi -- Interviews during Fieldwork -- 3 The (in)Visibility of Arabic: The Linguistic Landscape -- Arabs and Nationality in Israel: Minoritised People, Minoritised Language -- The Linguistic Landscape of Arabic -- 4 Modernisation, Globalisation and Citizenship in Israel -- Azmi Bishara: An Alternative View of Citizenship -- Changes in the Israeli Political Scene -- What does an Official Language Mean? -- Bilingual Schools -- The Case for Aramaic -- 5 Autobiography and Language Choice -- Sasson Somekh -- Anton Shammas -- Sayed Kashua -- Juxtaposition of Somekh, Shammas and Kashua: When Someone Gives Up a Language, is it Considered a Loss? And by Whom? -- The Arab Jew -- 6 Arabic in Jordan and Palestine -- 'Can the Subaltern Speak?' The Andrew Shryock-Joseph Massad Debate -- The (Re)Production of Knowledge on Arabic -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.