Uri Horesh, PhD
د. أوري حورش
ד״ר אורי חורש
Senior Lecturer in Linguistics • محاضر كبير باللغويات • מרצה בכיר בבלשנות
About Uri Horesh
Arabic • Hebrew • Sociolinguistics
Uri Horesh is Senior Lecturer in Linguistics in the Department of Arabic Language and Literature at Achva Academic College and Honorary Senior Lecturer in the Department of Language and Linguistics at the University of Essex.
Uri holds a PhD in Sociolinguistics from the University of Essex, where they also completed a three-year British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Department of Language and Linguistics. Uri's research focuses on language variation and change, mostly in Levantine dialects of Arabic, and on language contact in the Eastern Mediterranean, predominantly between Palestinian Arabic and Modern Hebrew.
Uri has taught courses in Linguistics, Sociolinguistics, Semitic Linguistics, Translation and Arabic and Hebrew as foreign languages, at educational institutions in the United States, the United Kingdom and Palestine.
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Al-Wer, Enam, Uri Horesh, Bruno Herin and Rudolf de Jong. 2022. Arabic sociolinguistics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
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Horesh, Uri, Enam Al-Wer, Deema AlAmmar and Moayyad Al-Bohnayyah. 2022. Dialect contact and change in the Arabic feminine ending morpheme. In Abdel-Khalig Ali & Atiqa Hachimi (eds.). Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics XXXIII: Papers selected from the Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics, Toronto, Canada, 2019.Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 27–50. https://doi.org/10.1075/sal.11.02hor
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Al-Wer, Enam, Uri Horesh, Deema Alammar, Hind Alaodini, Aziza Al-Essa, Areej Al-Hawamdeh, Khairia Alqahtani and Abeer Hussain. 2022. Probing linguistic change in Arabic vernaculars: a sociohistorical perspective. Language in Society 51: 29–50. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0047404520000706
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أبو جابر، سليم وأوري حورش. ٢٠٢٢. الشاعر المناضل شفيق حبيب ومساهمته في تعزيز الثقافة والهوية الفلسطينية. في قصي محمود حاج يحيى (محرر). دراسات في الثقافة والهوية في المجتمع العربي الفلسطيني في إسرائيل. بيت بيرل: المعهد الأكاديمي العربي للتربية، الكلية الأكاديمية بيت بيرل. ٣٠١-٣١٦. http://tinyurl.com/ShafiqHabeeb2022
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Horesh, Uri and Orit Bashkin. 2021. Communism, commitment and humanity: David Semah. Banipal 72: 48–55. http://www.banipal.co.uk/back_issues/120/issue-72/
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Horesh, Uri. 2021. Translation of “In the year 2532” by Shalom Darwish. Banipal 72: 152–154. http://www.banipal.co.uk/back_issues/120/issue-72/
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Horesh, Uri. 2021. Translation of “The revolt of ignorance” by Ya‘qub Balbul. Banipal 72 [online only]. http://www.banipal.co.uk/selections/120/371/yaqub-balbul-baghdad-1920-israel-2003/
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Horesh, Uri. 2021. Sociolinguistic variation and variation in sociolinguistics. In Karin C. Ryding and David Wilmsen (eds.). The Cambridge handbook of Arabic linguistics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 181–198. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108277327.009
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Horesh, Uri. 2021. Palestinian dialects and identities shifting across physical and virtual borders. Multilingua. 40: 647–673. https://doi.org/10.1515/multi-2020-0104
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Meyerhoff, Miriam, Maya Abtahian, Roey J. Gafter, Uri Horesh, Jonathan R. Kasstan, Peter Keegan & Jeanette King. 2020. Styles, standards and meaning: Issues in the globalisation of sociolinguistics. Language Ecology 4: 1–16. https://doi.org/10.1075/le.00006.mey
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Horesh, Uri. 2020. Stylistic variation in read Arabic: A case study from Palestine. Language Ecology 4: 55–72. https://doi.org/10.1075/le.00009.hor
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Gafter, Roey J. and Uri Horesh. 2020. Two languages, one variable? Pharyngeal realizations among Arabic-Hebrew bilinguals. Journal of Sociolinguistics 24: 369–387. https://doi.org/10.1111/josl.12373.
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Horesh, Uri. 2020. Palestinian dialects and identities shifting across physical and virtual borders. Multilingua. https://doi.org/10.1515/multi-2020-0104
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Gafter, Roey J. and Uri Horesh. 2020. What predicts pharyngeal realizations in Bilingual Palestinians’ Hebrew? University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics 25.2. https://repository.upenn.edu/pwpl/vol25/iss2/5
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Gafter, Roey J. and Uri Horesh. 2019. Two languages, one variable? Pharyngeal realizations among Arabic-Hebrew bilinguals. Journal of Sociolinguistics. (Early View: https://doi.org/10.1111/josl.12373
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Al-Wer, Enam and Uri Horesh (eds.). 2019. The Routledge Handbook of Arabic Sociolinguistics. London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315722450
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Al-Wer, Enam and Uri Horesh. 2019. Arabic sociolinguistics: principles and epistemology. In: Enam Al-Wer and Uri Horesh (eds.). The Routledge Handbook of Arabic Sociolinguistics. London: Routledge. 1-11.
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Horesh, Uri. 2019. Languages of the Middle East and North Africa. In: Jack S. Damico and Martin J. Ball (eds.). The SAGE Encyclopedia of Human Communication Sciences and Disorders. London: SAGE. 1057-1061. http://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781483380810.n349
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Horesh, Uri. 2017. Language as a reflection of society: Examples from Palestinian Arabic. British Academy Review 31: 55- 58. https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/language-reflection-society-examples-palestinian-arabic
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Horesh, Uri and William Cotter. 2016. Current research on linguistic variation in the Arabic-speaking world. Language and Linguistics Compass 10/8: 370-381. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/lnc3.12202
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Cotter, William and Uri Horesh. 2015. Social integration and dialect divergence in coastal Palestine. Journal of Sociolinguistics 19/4: 460-483. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/josl.12135
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Al-Wer, Enam, Uri Horesh, Bruno Herin and Maria Fanis. 2015. How Arabic regional features become sectarian features? Jordan as a case study. Zeitschrift für arabische Linguistik 62: 68-87
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Horesh, Uri and William Cotter. 2015. Sociolinguistics of Palestinian Arabic. In: Lutz Edzard and Rudolf de Jong (eds.). Encyclopedia of Arabic Language and Linguistics Online. Leiden: Brill. http://referenceworks.brillonline.com/entries/encyclopedia-of-arabic-language-and-linguistics/sociolinguistics-of-palestinian-arabic-SIM_001007?s.num=0
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Horesh, Uri. 2015. Structural change in Urban Palestinian Arabic induced by contact with Modern Hebrew. In: Aaron Butts (ed.). Semitic Languages in Contact. Leiden: Brill. 198-233. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004300156_012
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Gafter, Roey J. and Uri Horesh. 2015. When the construction is axla, everything is axla: A combined lexical and structural borrowing from Arabic to Hebrew. Journal of Jewish Languages 3: 337-348. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/22134638-12340037 (also appeared in: Edit Doron (ed.). 2016. Language Contact and the Development of Modern Hebrew. Leiden: Brill. 337-347. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004310896_026)