About Uri Horesh
Arabic • Hebrew • Sociolinguistics
Uri Horesh is Senior Lecturer in Linguistics in the Arabic Language and Literature Department at Achva Academic College.
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, Deema Alammar, Hind Alaodini, Aziza Al-Essa, Areej Al-Hawamdeh, Khairia Alqahtani and Abeer Hussain. (2020). Probing linguistic change in Arabic vernaculars: a sociohistorical perspective. Language in Society. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0047404520000706
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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)
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