Publications

Publication details [#28985]

Amara, Muhammad Hasan. 1995. Hebrew and English lexical reflections of socio-political changes in Palestinian Arabic. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development 16 (3) : 165–172.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

language use | lexical choice | modernization | multilingualism | sociolinguistics

Language as a subject

Arabic, Palestinian | English | Hebrew

Place, Publisher

Multilingual Matters

ISBN

0143-4632

Journal WWW

www.multilingual-matters.com/multi/onlinej.asp

Annotation

This study looks at sociolinguistic reflections of change from a traditional to a modern Israeli Palestinian society by exploring social differentiation of English and Hebrew lexical items in the Palestinian Arabic of an Arab village.