The Politics of Palestinian Multilingualism

This book provides an essential contribution to understanding the politics of Israel/Palestine through the prism of sociolinguistics and discourse analysis. The Politics of Palestinian Multilingualism: Speaking for citizenship is key reading for advanced students and scholars of multilingualism, language contact, ideology and policy

Nancy Hawker (DPhil University of Oxford 2013) has finished a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Oxford, UK. She is a research fellow at the Aga Khan University's Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations, London.

Introduction: A discourse-analytical exploration of the citizenship of Palestinians Chapter 1: The contestation of Arabic on Zionist stages Chapter 2: Linguistically navigating 'mixed' social settings in contexts of segregation Chapter 3: Expressing styles for discursive authority Chapter 4: Anxious attitudes, confident practices: the ambivalence of late capitalism Conclusion: The political scientist is the sociolinguist's friend Epilogue: A personal journey through language teaching and learning ideologies Acknowledgments Appendices Bibliography Index