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Arabic borrowing of the Hebrew word menahēl ‘manager’: Articulations and ideologies
- Abstract:
- 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 be. The article provides examples of real usage and grounds the explanation for the different meanings in pragmatics, cultural theory, and Althusser’s conception of ideologies in ways that are useful to linguistic ethnography.
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- Published
- Peer review status:
- Reviewed (other)
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(Preview, Accepted manuscript, pdf, 196.0KB, Terms of use)
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- Publisher copy:
- 10.1075/sal.6.17haw
- Publisher:
- John Benjamins Publishing
- Host title:
- Arabic in Contact
- Journal:
- Arabic in Contact More from this journal
- Series:
- Studies in Arabic Linguistics
- Publication date:
- 2018-07-10
- Acceptance date:
- 2014-07-31
- Event location:
- Naples, Italy
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- 9789027263629
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pubs:822959
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822959
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2018-02-06
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- John Benjamins
- Copyright date:
- 2018
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- © 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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