Sandy Habib
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 6501042 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Sandy Habib |
| PRENOMES | Sandy |
| SOBRENOME | Habib |
| ASSINATURA | HABIB S |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Tel Hai Academic College |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8450-5361 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 18 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 1 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 18 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2008 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
Social categories and everyday talk in Jish Arabic (northern Israel)
This article explores the semantics and pragmatics of ten social category terms, used in the largely undocumented Jish Arabic linguaculture (ways of speaking and living). By consulting native Jish Arabic speakers, examining WhatsApp messages texted by them, and using Natural Semantic Metalanguage, each of these terms is described and explicated in simple, (semi-)universal concepts. This makes the explications easily understood and readily cross-t…
Death Practices Among the Circassians in Israel
This paper investigates the death practices in the largely undocumented linguaculture (interwoven ways of speaking and living) of the Circassian-speaking village of Kfar Kama in Israel. It employs two approaches, ethnography and the Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM). Through the ethnographic approach, the paper provides a detailed account of what happens from the moment a person dies in Kfar Kama to the 40 th -day memorial. Using NSM, the paper…
What Does ‘Salvation’ Mean? A Theological and Linguistic Study
This study is an interdisciplinary work, blending theological investigation with linguistic analysis. It aimed at exploring the concept of ‘salvation’ and expounding its meaning. It begins by observing that the average Christian may not fully grasp the meaning of this concept. As evidence, the paper presents the findings of a questionnaire study assessing the understanding of the target concept among 37 Arabic-speaking Catholics residing in the t…
Translating Psalm 99 into Minimal English
Translating Psalm 66 into Children’s Language
Loan words can cause intercultural miscommunication
This paper explores the semantics and pragmatics of the Hebrew word shahid ( שהיד ). Because this word was borrowed from Arabic, its meaning is compared to that of Arabic shahīd ( شهيد ) ‘roughly, martyr.’ Using corpus analysis and the Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM) method, the meaning of the Hebrew loan word is explicated, and its explication is compared to that of Arabic shahīd . The two explications demonstrate that the differences betwee…
The Biblical Key Word ḇêraḵ
The Biblical Hebrew word ḇêraḵ (written in Hebrew script ברך and pronounced /beˈraχ/) is a biblical key word that is often rendered in English as bless but also as praise and other words. Since it is a key word, understanding its meaning is important, as this can help Bible readers better understand verses that include it. This can also help practicing Christians and Jews who do not know Hebrew understand prayers based on these verses. Therefore,…
To What Extent Do Christians Understand the Hymns They Sing? A Linguistic and Theological Analysis of Four Maronite Hymns
This paper stands at the interface between linguistics, theology, and culture, and its aim is twofold. First, it investigates the challenges that Arabic-speaking Christians in the town of Jish, Israel, might face while singing the four hymns performed during the Wednesday service of the Season of the Glorious Cross in the Maronite liturgy. Second, it studies these hymns, unpacking their meaning. One of these hymns is in Syriac, while the rest are…
Talking about the deceased in the Jish linguaculture
This paper has aimed to look into the terms and expressions used in the Jish linguaculture when talking about the deceased. Seventeen such terms and expressions are presented, discussed, and explicated using the Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM) approach. The explications appear in simple, (semi-)universal language, which makes them relatively easily understood and readily translatable into any language. This, in turn, means that the explicatio…
The Days After the Funeral
This study is in ethnolinguistics, the interface between culture and linguistics. It provides an ethnography (detailed description) of post-funeral death practices among Maronite Christians in Jish, a small village in northern Israel. It also linguistically analyzes some concepts and cultural norms related to these practices and explicates (i.e., defines in simple, universal terms) them using the Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM) approach. At t…
Euphemisms for Japanese shinu 死ぬ ‘die’
Tense-aspect constructions in Jish Arabic
This paper aims to examine the present and past tense-aspect constructions in Jish Arabic, an undocumented Arabic variety of Upper Galilee (Israel), and delineate their morphological, syntactic, and semantic features. Nine such constructions are identified, and the structure of each construction is discussed. In addition, using the Natural Semantic Metalanguage approach (NSM), an explication (a definition using simple words) of the meaning of eac…
The Ethnopragmatics of Jish Arabic-speaking culture
The aim of this paper is to describe five speech practices employed by Jish Arabic speakers: greeting a passerby, forms of address, necessary expressions when talking about death, necessary expressions when praising someone, and necessary expressions when mentioning entities of “low” value. These five speech practices are described using the Cultural Scripts Approach, which employs simple, universal language, thus enhancing descriptive accuracy a…
On the verge of extinction
This study has aimed (1) to look into the meaning and origin of eight similes used by older, but not by younger, native speakers of Jish Arabic and (2) to explicate their meanings using simple, universal human concepts. It is hypothesized that, with the passage of time, these similes will go extinct. That is, not only will they stop being used, but they will also not be recognized by native Jish Arabic speakers. Thus, by discussing their meaning …
Dying for a Cause Other Than God
This paper looks into the non-religious meanings of English martyr and its near Arabic equivalent shahīd. It compares and contrasts them and provides an explication of each concept using the Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM) method. The explications make use of simple, universal concepts, which renders the explications highly translatable into all languages, as well as accessible to cultural outsiders
Dying in the Cause of God
This article examines the Christian concept of a martyr and the Muslim concept of shahīd. It delineates the similarities and differences between them and provides an explication of each concept using the Natural Semantic Metalanguage Method (NSM). The explications make use of simple, universal concepts, which renders the explications highly translatable into all languages, as well as accessible to cultural outsiders.Keywords: MartyrShahīdNatural …
Ghosts , Fairies , Elves , and Nymphs
The aim of this study was to devise a semantic template for non-human being terms. To achieve this objective, four non-human being concepts were analysed, and an explication for each concept was built. Comparing the explications yielded a nine-part semantic template. The usefulness of this semantic template is threefold: first, it eases the task of explicating non-human being concepts because the parts of the template can serve as guidelines to b…
The systematization and typology of the instant messaging writing system used by young Israeli Arabs
This study investigates a new writing system based on the Roman script that has been used by Israeli Arabs in Israel for about ten years. This system is associated with instant messaging (IM); people usually use it when sending SMSs or when utilizing any of the computer-mediated communication forms, such as Messenger. The paper focuses on the systematization and the typology of this writing system based on data collected from about 40 participant…
Dying in the Cause of God
This article examines the Christian concept of a martyr and the Muslim concept of shahīd. It delineates the similarities and differences between them and provides an explication of each concept using the Natural Semantic Metalanguage Method (NSM). The explications make use of simple, universal concepts, which renders the explications highly translatable into all languages, as well as accessible to cultural outsiders.Keywords: MartyrShahīdNatural …
The systematization and typology of the instant messaging writing system used by young Israeli Arabs
This study investigates a new writing system based on the Roman script that has been used by Israeli Arabs in Israel for about ten years. This system is associated with instant messaging (IM); people usually use it when sending SMSs or when utilizing any of the computer-mediated communication forms, such as Messenger. The paper focuses on the systematization and the typology of this writing system based on data collected from about 40 participant…
Ghosts , Fairies , Elves , and Nymphs
The aim of this study was to devise a semantic template for non-human being terms. To achieve this objective, four non-human being concepts were analysed, and an explication for each concept was built. Comparing the explications yielded a nine-part semantic template. The usefulness of this semantic template is threefold: first, it eases the task of explicating non-human being concepts because the parts of the template can serve as guidelines to b…
Dying in the Cause of God
This article examines the Christian concept of a martyr and the Muslim concept of shahīd. It delineates the similarities and differences between them and provides an explication of each concept using the Natural Semantic Metalanguage Method (NSM). The explications make use of simple, universal concepts, which renders the explications highly translatable into all languages, as well as accessible to cultural outsiders.Keywords: MartyrShahīdNatural …
Dying for a Cause Other Than God
This paper looks into the non-religious meanings of English martyr and its near Arabic equivalent shahīd. It compares and contrasts them and provides an explication of each concept using the Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM) method. The explications make use of simple, universal concepts, which renders the explications highly translatable into all languages, as well as accessible to cultural outsiders
The Ethnopragmatics of Jish Arabic-speaking culture
The aim of this paper is to describe five speech practices employed by Jish Arabic speakers: greeting a passerby, forms of address, necessary expressions when talking about death, necessary expressions when praising someone, and necessary expressions when mentioning entities of “low” value. These five speech practices are described using the Cultural Scripts Approach, which employs simple, universal language, thus enhancing descriptive accuracy a…
On the verge of extinction
This study has aimed (1) to look into the meaning and origin of eight similes used by older, but not by younger, native speakers of Jish Arabic and (2) to explicate their meanings using simple, universal human concepts. It is hypothesized that, with the passage of time, these similes will go extinct. That is, not only will they stop being used, but they will also not be recognized by native Jish Arabic speakers. Thus, by discussing their meaning …
Tense-aspect constructions in Jish Arabic
This paper aims to examine the present and past tense-aspect constructions in Jish Arabic, an undocumented Arabic variety of Upper Galilee (Israel), and delineate their morphological, syntactic, and semantic features. Nine such constructions are identified, and the structure of each construction is discussed. In addition, using the Natural Semantic Metalanguage approach (NSM), an explication (a definition using simple words) of the meaning of eac…
The Days After the Funeral
This study is in ethnolinguistics, the interface between culture and linguistics. It provides an ethnography (detailed description) of post-funeral death practices among Maronite Christians in Jish, a small village in northern Israel. It also linguistically analyzes some concepts and cultural norms related to these practices and explicates (i.e., defines in simple, universal terms) them using the Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM) approach. At t…
Euphemisms for Japanese shinu 死ぬ ‘die’
The Biblical Key Word ḇêraḵ
The Biblical Hebrew word ḇêraḵ (written in Hebrew script ברך and pronounced /beˈraχ/) is a biblical key word that is often rendered in English as bless but also as praise and other words. Since it is a key word, understanding its meaning is important, as this can help Bible readers better understand verses that include it. This can also help practicing Christians and Jews who do not know Hebrew understand prayers based on these verses. Therefore,…
To What Extent Do Christians Understand the Hymns They Sing? A Linguistic and Theological Analysis of Four Maronite Hymns
This paper stands at the interface between linguistics, theology, and culture, and its aim is twofold. First, it investigates the challenges that Arabic-speaking Christians in the town of Jish, Israel, might face while singing the four hymns performed during the Wednesday service of the Season of the Glorious Cross in the Maronite liturgy. Second, it studies these hymns, unpacking their meaning. One of these hymns is in Syriac, while the rest are…
Talking about the deceased in the Jish linguaculture
This paper has aimed to look into the terms and expressions used in the Jish linguaculture when talking about the deceased. Seventeen such terms and expressions are presented, discussed, and explicated using the Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM) approach. The explications appear in simple, (semi-)universal language, which makes them relatively easily understood and readily translatable into any language. This, in turn, means that the explicatio…
Social categories and everyday talk in Jish Arabic (northern Israel)
This article explores the semantics and pragmatics of ten social category terms, used in the largely undocumented Jish Arabic linguaculture (ways of speaking and living). By consulting native Jish Arabic speakers, examining WhatsApp messages texted by them, and using Natural Semantic Metalanguage, each of these terms is described and explicated in simple, (semi-)universal concepts. This makes the explications easily understood and readily cross-t…
Death Practices Among the Circassians in Israel
This paper investigates the death practices in the largely undocumented linguaculture (interwoven ways of speaking and living) of the Circassian-speaking village of Kfar Kama in Israel. It employs two approaches, ethnography and the Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM). Through the ethnographic approach, the paper provides a detailed account of what happens from the moment a person dies in Kfar Kama to the 40 th -day memorial. Using NSM, the paper…
What Does ‘Salvation’ Mean? A Theological and Linguistic Study
This study is an interdisciplinary work, blending theological investigation with linguistic analysis. It aimed at exploring the concept of ‘salvation’ and expounding its meaning. It begins by observing that the average Christian may not fully grasp the meaning of this concept. As evidence, the paper presents the findings of a questionnaire study assessing the understanding of the target concept among 37 Arabic-speaking Catholics residing in the t…
Translating Psalm 99 into Minimal English
Translating Psalm 66 into Children’s Language
Loan words can cause intercultural miscommunication
This paper explores the semantics and pragmatics of the Hebrew word shahid ( שהיד ). Because this word was borrowed from Arabic, its meaning is compared to that of Arabic shahīd ( شهيد ) ‘roughly, martyr.’ Using corpus analysis and the Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM) method, the meaning of the Hebrew loan word is explicated, and its explication is compared to that of Arabic shahīd . The two explications demonstrate that the differences betwee…
Linguistics (10 obras) · Philosophy (9 obras) · Philosophy (7 obras) · Arabic (6 obras) · Computer Science (6 obras) · Psychology (6 obras) · Biblical Studies and Interpretation (5 obras) · Epistemology (5 obras) · Historical and Linguistic Studies (5 obras) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (5 obras)