Publications

Publication details [#44363]

Ben-Rafael, Eliezer, Elana Shohamy, Muhammad Amara and Nira Trumper-Hecht. 2006. Linguistic Landscape as Symbolic Construction of the Public Space: The Case of Israel. The International Journal of Multilingualism 3 (1) : 7–30.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

ethnicity | language attitude | language use | multilingualism | sign

Language as a subject

Arabic | English | Hebrew

Place, Publisher

Multilingual Matters

Annotation

This paper demonstrates that there are essentially different linguistic landscape patterns in Israel's various communities: Hebrew–English signs prevail in Jewish communities; Arabic Hebrew signs in Israeli–Palestinian communities; and Arabic–English signs in East Jerusalem.