The Politics of Palestinian Multilingualism: Speaking for Citizenship (The Politics of Language)

The Politics Of Palestinian Multilingualism: Speaking For Citizenship Provides An Essential Contribution To Understanding The Politics Of Israel/palestine Through The Prism Of Sociolinguistics And Discourse Analysis. Arabic-speakers Who Also Know Hebrew Resort To A Range Of Communicative Strategies For Their Political Ideas To Be Heard: They Either Accommodate Or Resist The Israeli Institutional Suppression Of Arabic. They Also Codeswitch And Borrow From Hebrew As Well As From Arabic Registers And Styles In Order To Mobilise Discursive Authority. On Political And Cultural Stages, Multilingual Palestinian Politicians And Artists Challenge The Existing Political Structures. In The Late Capitalist Market, Language Skills Are Re-packaged As Commodified Resources. With New Evidence From Recent And Historical Discourse, This Book Is About How Speakers Of A Marginalised, Contained Language Engage With The Political System In The Idioms At Their Disposal. The Politics Of Palestinian Multilingualism: Speaking For Citizenship Is Key Reading For Advanced Students And Scholars Of Multilingualism, Language Contact, Ideology, And Policy, Within Sociolinguistics, Anthropology, Politics, And Middle Eastern Studies. He Politics Of Palestinian Multilingualism: Speaking For Citizenship Is Key Reading For Advanced Students And Scholars Of Multilingualism, Language Contact, Ideology, And Policy, Within Sociolinguistics, Anthropology, Politics, And Middle Eastern Studies. Cover Half Title Series Page Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Page Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: A discourse-analytical exploration of the citizenship of Palestinians Between ideologies of monolingualism, practices of bilingualism, and aspirations to multilingualism The discursive elements of citizenship Vocal leftist multilinguals, silent rightists Other sources of primary material Fieldwork limitation: no ‘right-wing’ Arabs Elections as the structure of the fieldwork, but not its object of interest Building on and reframing the existing scholarship on Arabic in Israel Notes Chapter 1 The contestation of Arabic on Zionist stages Knesset beginnings: translating and negotiating national boundaries The institutional Arabic silence Breaking the Arabic silence on Zionist stages Who do you think you are talking to? Addressing Arab audiences from Zionist platforms Speaking ‘Israeli Arabic’: a military language for Jewish Israelis Speaking languages to power: contesting linguistic and other hegemonies Notes Chapter 2 Linguistically navigating ‘mixed’ social settings in contexts of segregation The ‘Arab-radar’ Creating Arabic spaces with Jewish Israelis The stubbornness of the principle of Arabic avoidance in ‘mixed’ company Who’s the boss? Claiming equality when there is none A self-governing ‘Palestinian autonomous area’ and its Jewish Israeli visitor Language choices in the context of inherited power dynamics Notes Chapter 3 Expressing styles for discursive authority ‘Rule’ Number 1: create your audience: alternate codes ‘Rule’ Number 2: show your expertise: mix in loanwords ‘Rule’ Number 3: show your seriousness: use Educated Spoken Arabic ‘Rule’ Number 4: be funny: use Hebrew in paradoxical situations for ironic humour ‘Rule’ Number 5: park your patriarchy (in the parliament) Notes Chapter 4 Anxious attitudes, confident practices: The ambivalence of late capitalism Anxieties about borrowing Late capitalism, consumerism, and the new Palestinian multilinguals Avoiding Arabic in the ‘mixed’ company of the shopping centres Representations of Arab multilingualism in popular cinematic productions Multilingual cosmopolitanism versus monolingual nationalism Notes Conclusion The political scientist is the sociolinguist’s friend Cross-disciplinary approaches to Arabic in Israel for understanding the politics Reintroducing ‘class’ as an overhauled sociolinguistic term Notes Epilogue: A personal journey through language teaching and learning ideologies Motto Note Appendix 1: Transcription conventions Appendix 2: List of fieldwork sites with map Appendix 3: List of transcriptions from February and March 2015 field recordings Appendix 4: List of videos and films analysed as primary material Appendix 5: List of official records of institutional speeches analysed as primary material Appendix 6: List of online news articles and other online sources referenced as a secondary sources Bibliography Index