A War of Words: Language and Conflict in the Middle EastYasir Suleiman's 2004 book considers national identity in relation to language, the way in which language can be manipulated to signal political, cultural or even historical difference. As a language with a long-recorded heritage and one spoken by the majority of those in the Middle East in a variety of dialects, Arabic is a particularly appropriate vehicle for such an investigation. It is also a penetrating device for exploring the conflicts of the Middle East, the diversity of its peoples and the diversity of their viewpoints. Suleiman's book offers a wealth of empirical material, and intriguing, often poignant illustrations of antagonisms articulated through pun or double entendre. |
Contents
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Language power and conflict in the Middle East | 7 |
Standard Arabic and its opponents | 58 |
language and conflict in Jordan | 96 |
language and conflict in Palestine and Israel | 137 |
a conclusion | 218 |
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Abu-Odeh al-lugha al-'arabiyya Amman Arab culture Arab nationalism Arab–Israeli conflict Arabic and Hebrew Arabic language Arabic names Ashkenazi Jews attack attitude Bedouin Bedouin variety Beirut Beit Safafa Cairo called chapter code-switching colloquial Dār debate defenders dialects diglossia discourse dominant East Jerusalem Egypt Egyptian Arabic English ethnic example expressed fact Fallahi grammar guage Har Homa Hebrew language Hebrew names Ibn Khaldun ideological interdialectal Islam Israel Israeli Jewish Israeli Jews Jordan Jordanian Kurdish language situation language-defenders lexical linguistic conflict Madani variety male means Middle East Mizrahi Jews modern Muhammad Muslim nation-state national identity nationalist Occupied Old City Palestine Palestinians in Israel place names Plate political Quran refer rhetoric role schools signal social society socio-political sociolinguistic speak speech Spolsky status street names Suleiman symbolic term Territories tion tradition Turkey Turkish variant vernacular poetry villages West Bank Willcocks writing Zionist