Investigating Code Switching in Two Arab Localities in Israel ()
ABSTRACT
The study examines spoken data based on longitudinal observations and recordings
of speech in natural settings collected between the years 2016 and 2018. The
target groups are people who live in Iksal in the lower Galilee and Um Al-Fahm
in the Triangle region in Israel. The study aims to investigate code switching
in terms of frequency, types, and domains. The objective is to provide a better
understanding of the language contact situation in Israel. The results offer
several insights. First, topics like education, employment, and technology had
the most extensive CS. Second, concerning CS, the most frequently used type of
switch in both corpora is intrasentential; this type of switching requires a
high proficiency in both languages. Finally, code switches can still be code
switches even if they have been adapted to Arabic phonology.
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Elhija, D. (2023) Investigating Code Switching in Two Arab Localities in Israel.
Open Journal of Social Sciences,
11, 84-95. doi:
10.4236/jss.2023.119007.
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