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Research overview
Uri Horesh is a Lecturer in the Department of Arabic and Persian at the University of St Andrews and an Honorary Senior Lecturer in the Department of Language and Linguistics at the University of Essex. They hold a PhD in Sociolinguistics from the University of Essex (2014) and held a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship at Essex between 2016 and 2019. They have taught linguistics, translation, and Arabic at a number of universities and colleges in the United States, Palestine, and the United Kingdom.
They are interested in Sociolinguistics, particularly language variation and change and language contact in the Middle East, historical sociolinguistics, Arabic, Hebrew and Yiddish dialectology. They are a co-editor of The Routledge Handbook of Arabic Sociolinguistics (2019) and a co-author of the textbook Arabic Sociolinguistics (Cambridge University Press, 2022).
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Education/Academic qualification
Doctor of Philosophy, Phonological outcomes of language contact in the Palestinian Arabic dialect of Jaffa, University of Essex
Award Date: 11 Apr 2014
External positions
Honorary Senior Lecturer, University of Essex
Keywords
- P Philology. Linguistics
- PJ Semitic
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
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SDG 16 Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
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Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
Research output
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Arabic sociolinguistics
Al-Wer, E., Horesh, U., Herin, B. & De Jong, R., 1 Jul 2022, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 238 p.Research output: Book/Report › Book
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Palestinian dialects and identities shifting across physical and virtual borders
Horesh, U., 1 Sept 2021, In: Multilingua. 40, 5, p. 647-673 27 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Sociolinguistic variation and variation in sociolinguistics
Horesh, U., 1 Sept 2021, The Cambridge handbook of Arabic linguistics. Ryding, K. C. & Wilmsen, D. (eds.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, p. 181–198 18 p. (Cambridge handbooks in language and linguistics).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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الأدب الشعبيّ اليهوديّ العراقيّ ومفهوم اليهوديّ العربيّ
Translated title of the contribution :Judeo-Iraqi popular literature and the meaning of the Arab-Jew Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Dialect contact and change in the Arabic feminine ending morpheme
Horesh, U., Al-Wer, E., AlAmmar, D. & Al-Bohnayyah, M., 6 Dec 2022, Perspectives on Arabic linguistics XXXIII: papers selected from the Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics, Toronto, Canada, 2019. Ali, A.-K. & Hachimi, A. (eds.). Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, p. 27–49 23 p. (Studies in Arabic linguistics; vol. 11).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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John Benjamins (Publisher)
Horesh, U. (Member of editorial board)
2023 → …Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work types › Editor of research journal
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European Commission Joint Research Centre (External organisation)
Horesh, U. (Participant)
6 Apr 2024 → 5 Oct 2027Activity: Membership types › Membership of research network
Prizes
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British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship
Horesh, U. (Recipient) & Horesh, U. (Recipient), 1 Oct 2016
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
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