The politics of Arabic in Israel : a sociolinguistic analysis / / Camelia Suleiman

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910793138103321
• Autore: Suleiman Camelia
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Edinburgh : , : Edinburgh University Press, , 2018
• ISBN: 1-4744-2088-5; 1-4744-2087-7; 1-4744-3566-1
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (241 pages)
• Disciplina: 306.4495694
• Soggetti: Language policy - Israel; Arabic language - Israel; Arabic language - Political aspects
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Previously issued in print: 2017.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: Although it remains an official language, Israel has made continued attempts to marginalize Arabic on the one hand and securitize it on the other. Camelia Suleiman delves into these tensions and contradictions, exploring how language policy and language choice both reflect and challenge political identities of Arabs and Israelis.