Codeswitching as an Index and Construct of Sociopolitical Identity : The Case of the Druze and Arabs in Israel (Brill Studies in Language Contact and the Dynamics of Language)

This book presents an empirically based examination of language patterns found among the Israeli Druze community, which is profiled against that of the Arabs in Israel. The results document the emergence of a mixed language previously undescribed and provides a socio-political analysis.