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    Speaking for Citizenship

    by Nancy Hawker ...
    Series series The Politics of Language
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  • Palestinian-Israeli Contact and Linguistic Practices

    by Nancy Hawker ...
    Series series Routledge Arabic Linguistics Series
    Offering insight into linguistic practices resulting from different kinds of Palestinian-Israeli contact, this book examines a specific conceptualisation of the link between the political and economic contexts and human practices, or between structure and agency, termed "articulation".The contexts of the military occupation, a shared consumer market, controlled cheap labour migration, and the ... Read more

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    Edited by Nancy Hawker ...
    Young women drift through Prague wondering about unplanned pregnancies, a child's reflections on the Christian concept of sinfulnesslead to resolve to sin only 'just a little bit', drunken men banter over interminable card games, and a woman's salvation comes in the unexpected form of pickled buttocks. Bringing together authors of different generations, styles and backgrounds - including for the ... Read more

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