11. War Names in the Arab–Israeli Confl ict: A Comparative Study

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Figures and Tables vii
4. Acknowledgements viii
5. Foreword: About Professor Yasir Suleiman ix
6. Introduction: Words, Language, Message 1
7. 1. The Hauntology of Language and Identity 14
8. 2. Transcultural Content and Translingual Refl ection: Rethinking the Arabic Language Learning Experience 30
9. 3. Metaphorical Recurrence and Language Symbolism in Arabic Metalanguage Discourse 49
10. 4. Colloquial Moroccan Arabic: Shifts in Usage and Attitudes in the Era of Computer-mediated Communication 69
11. 5. ‘Arabic is Under Threat’: Language Anxiety as a Discourse on Identity and Confl ict 90
12. 6. Code Choice, Place and Identity in Egypt: Evidence from Two Novels 111
13. 7. Language as Proxy in Egypt’s Identity Politics: Examining the New Wave of Egyptian Nationalism 126
14. 8. Rakākah and the Petit Quarrel of 1871: Christian Authors and the Competition over Arabic 148
15. 9. Orchestrating Multimodal Protest and Subverting Banal Nationalism in the Linguistic Landscape of the Tunisian Revolution 165
16. 10. The Arab Jews and the Arabic Language in Israel: An Ongoing Ambivalence between Positive Nostalgia and Negative Present 185
17. 11. War Names in the Arab–Israeli Confl ict: A Comparative Study 207
18. About the Contributors 228
19. Index 232