Language:
English
Year of publication:
2013
Titel der Quelle:
Israel Studies in Language and Society
Angaben zur Quelle:
6,1 (2013) 12-30
Keywords:
Names, Personal Hebrew
;
Sociolinguistics
;
Druzes Languages
;
Palestinian Arabs Languages
Abstract:
The article examines the trend of giving Hebrew names to children in Israeli Druze society. It further examines the scale and reasons behind it, and finds that they are related to fashion, sociolinguistic and political-sociolinguistic issues. Language contact, especially between Arabic and Hebrew, and the status of Hebrew in the eyes of Arabs and Druze in Israel are also discussed.
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