30.4346, Books: Arabic in Modern Hebrew Texts: Ahmed

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Subject: 30.4346, Books: Arabic in Modern Hebrew Texts: Ahmed

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Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2019 15:01:06
From: Anna Glazier [Anna.Glazier at eup.ed.ac.uk]
Subject: Arabic in Modern Hebrew Texts: Ahmed

 


Title: Arabic in Modern Hebrew Texts 
Subtitle: The Stylistics of Exophonic Writing 
Publication Year: 2019 
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
	   www.edinburghuniversitypress.com
	

Book URL: https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-arabic-in-modern-hebrew-texts-hb.html 


Author: Mohamed A. H. Ahmed

Electronic: ISBN:  9781474444453 Pages: 200 Price: U.K. £ 75
Hardback: ISBN:  9781474444439 Pages: 200 Price: U.K. £ 75


Abstract:

In the late 1950s, Iraqi Jews were either forced or chose to leave Iraq for
Israel. Finding it impossible to continue writing in Arabic in Israel, many
Iraqi Jewish novelists faced the literary challenge of switching to Hebrew.
Focusing on the literary works of the writers Shimon Ballas, Sami Michael and
Eli Amir, this book examines their use of their native Iraqi Arabic in their
Hebrew works. It examines the influence of Arabic language and culture and
explores questions of language, place and belonging from the perspective of
sociolinguistics and multilingualism.

In addition, Ahmed applies stylistics as a framework to investigate the range
of linguistic phenomena that can be found in these exophonic texts, such as
code-switching, borrowing, language and translation strategies. This new
stylistic framework for analysing exophonic texts offers a future model for
the study of other languages.

The social and political implications of this dilemma, as it finds expression
in creative writing, are also manifold. In an age of mass migration and
population displacement, the conflicted loyalties explored in this book
through the prism of Arabic and Hebrew are relevant in a range of linguistic
contexts. 

Key Features:

* Presents a new stylistic framework for analysing exophonic texts 
* Introduces a linguistic and stylistic study of exophonic writings beyond the
European context to include Semitic languages
* Explores how and why Arabic was incorporated in modern Hebrew texts
* Examines the use of Arabic in nine Hebrew novels from the 1960s to the
present 
* Analyses the works of authors Sami Michael, Shimon Ballas and Eli Amir 

Available in North America through our distributor, Oxford University Press.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Sociolinguistics
                     Text/Corpus Linguistics

Subject Language(s): Arabic, Standard (arb)
                     Hebrew (heb)


Written In: English  (eng)

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http://linguistlist.org/pubs/books/get-book.cfm?BookID=139193




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