Gender Switch in Female Speech of an Urbanized Arabic Dialect in Israel  

Oleh:

Rosenhouse, Judith ; Dbayyat, Nisreen

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Anthropological Linguistics (ada di JSTOR) vol. 48 no. 2 (Mar. 2006), page 169-186.
Fulltext: Vol. 48, No. 2, pp. 169-186.pdf (2.04MB)

Isi artikel

We investigate the patterns of and conditions for a special kind of gender switch found in an urbanized Arabic dialect spoken in Israel?the use of masculine instead of feminine forms in women's speech in the dialects spoken in the towns of Tire and Nazareth. We find that gender switch appears mainly when a speaker of the Tire dialect speaks about herself. Differences in the lexical distribution of this phenomenon and in women's attitudes to it are also evident. Besides features dependent on geographical dialect rules, the described situation seems to reflect differences in recent patterns of urbanization.

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