- Abstract:
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Ideologies, or ways of understanding one’s relation to the world, impede or encourage, and affect the form of, language contact practices such as borrowing and codeswitching. This is illustrated by the pragmatic functions – informative or humorous – of the Israeli Hebrew word menahēl ‘boss’ in Palestinian Arabic. By using ‘boss’ in an ironic sense, to refer to a self-important ‘big-head’, Palestinians are expressing their stance by means of a Hebrew loanword, to take a dig at the powers that ...
Expand abstract - Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Reviewed (other)
- Version:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Publisher:
- John Benjamins Publishing Publisher's website
- Series:
- Studies in Arabic Linguistics
- Publication date:
- 2018-07-10
- Acceptance date:
- 2014-07-31
- DOI:
- Pubs id:
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pubs:822959
- URN:
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uri:115a536b-e164-451c-ad48-b586b8166af3
- UUID:
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uuid:115a536b-e164-451c-ad48-b586b8166af3
- Local pid:
- pubs:822959
- ISBN:
- 9789027263629
- Copyright holder:
- John Benjamins
- Copyright date:
- 2018
- Notes:
- © John Benjamins 2018. This is the Accepted Manuscript version of the chapter. The final version is available online from John Benjamins at: https://doi.org/10.1075/sal.6.17haw
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Arabic borrowing of the Hebrew word menahēl ‘manager’: Articulations and ideologies
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