Arabic Codes in Hebrew Texts

On the Typology of Literary Code-switching

Datos Bibliográficos

ID17823946
AutoresMohamed Ahmed (0000-0003-0175-3058, Freie Universität Berlin, autor de correspondencia)
Año2016
Volumen4
Número2
Páginas203-230
Fecha de publicación2016-05-22
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of Jewish Languages (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 2213-4387 • E-ISSN: 2213-4638
EditorialBrill (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1163/22134638-12340070
OpenAlexW2404806078
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas4
Referencias citadas30

In the late 1950s, Iraqi Jews were either forced or chose to leave Iraq for Israel. Most Iraqi Jewish authors found it impossible to continue writing in Arabic in Israel and so faced the literary challenge of switching to Hebrew. As bilinguals, Iraqi Jewish novelists have employed Arabic in some of their Hebrew literary works, including strategies of code-switching. Conversational code-switching is traditionally divided into three types: intersentential code-switching, intrasentential code-switching, and tag-switching. Although code-switching in literary texts has its distinct features, research on written code-switching generally follows the typology applied to conversational code-switching. This article focuses on the typology of code-switching in literary texts. It investigates Arabic codes used in three Hebrew novels written by Iraqi Jewish novelists. The article suggests three main types of literary code-switching in view of the mutual relationship between author, text, and reader: Hard-Access, Easy-Access, and Ambiguous Access code-switching

Arabic · Art · Code-switching · Hebrew · Judaism · Linguistics · Literature · Programming language · Typology · Computer Science · History · Language, Linguistics, Cultural Analysis · Multilingual Education and Policy · Philosophy · Swearing, Euphemism, Multilingualism