Arabic Codes in Hebrew Texts

On the Typology of Literary Code-switching

Bibliographic Data

ID17823946
AuthorsMohamed Ahmed (0000-0003-0175-3058, Freie Universität Berlin, corresponding author)
Year2016
Volume4
Issue2
Pages203-230
Publication date2016-05-22
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Jewish Languages (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2213-4387 • E-ISSN: 2213-4638
PublisherBrill (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1163/22134638-12340070
OpenAlexW2404806078
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited30

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