2017/09/07 by Duaa Abu Elhija · 1 citation
Social Sciences · Computer Science · Arts and Humanities · Psychology · #Multilingual Education and Policy #Digital Communication and Language #Language, Linguistics, Cultural Analysis #Hebrew #Linguistics #Variety (cybernetics) #Noun #Context (archaeology) #Arabic #Modern Standard Arabic #Language contact #History #Sociology #Psychology #Computer science #Artificial intelligence #Philosophy
paper · doi:10.1163/19552629-01002009
openalex publication_date 2017/09/07 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/05/21
This research examines borrowings from Hebrew into Arabic as used by Nazarene and Iksali 1 Palestinian Israelis in the context of Arabic computer-mediated communication ( cmc ), specifically the written colloquial Palestinian Israeli dialect of Arabic in Facebook. The study focuses on the frequency of the borrowed items, phonological adaptation, and the reasons for borrowing from Hebrew. Three hypotheses are investigated: First, the most frequent borrowed items are nouns. Second, borrowed items are adapted to the Arabic phonological system. Finally, the main reasons for borrowing are to introduce culturally or technologically new concepts, as well as new ways to refer to preexisting notions. Most of these hypotheses are shown to be correct. However, the frequency of borrowing in the corpus does not reflect the intensity of the language contact between Hebrew and the Palestinian Israeli dialect. I describe the language contact situation between Hebrew and Arabic and demonstrate how intense it is, classifying it as falling between the third and fourth level of intensity according to Thomason and Kaufman’s (1988) borrowing scale. However, borrowing is restricted to lexical borrowing, particularly of nouns. I provide explanations that refer to the political and cultural situation (including identity issues) of Palestinian Israelis.