Linguistic Landscape as Symbolic Construction of the Public Space: The Case of Israel
Linguistic Landscape as Symbolic Construction of the Public Space: The Case of Israel
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DOI：
10.1080/14790710608668383
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发表时间：
2006-01-01
影响因子：
2.3
通讯作者：
Trumper-Hecht, Nira
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作者：
Ben-Rafael, Eliezer;Shohamy, Elana;Trumper-Hecht, Nira
语言景观是指标示公共空间的语言对象。本文比较了以色列多个同质和混合城市以及东耶路撒冷的LL模式。被研究的群体是以色列犹太人、巴勒斯坦以色列人和来自东耶路撒冷的非以色列巴勒斯坦人，其中大多数不是以色列公民。这项研究的重点是以色列三种主要语言--希伯来语、阿拉伯语和英语--的私人和公共标志的可见度。这项研究揭示了以色列不同社区的基本不同的LL模式：希伯来语-英语符号在犹太社区盛行；阿拉伯语-希伯来语符号在以色列-巴勒斯坦社区流行；阿拉伯语-英语符号在东耶路撒冷流行。进一步的分析还表明，在被调查的地区，公共标志和私人标志之间存在着显著的差异。总而言之，LL项目并不忠实地代表以色列民族语言多样性的典型语言体系，而是个人和机构在公共领域使用的语言资源。正是从这一角度出发，我们从公共空间的象征性构建的角度来谈论LL，我们通过三个不同因素的语境依赖的不同影响来解释这一点：关注标志对公众和客户的预期吸引力的理性考虑；行为者通过他们选择的模式来表达他们的身份的愿望，这些模式以这样或那样的方式代表他们对公众的自我呈现；以及在选择模式的背后最终存在的权力关系，在这种模式选择中，社会政治力量共享相关的不相容的利益。
Linguistic landscape (LL) refers to linguistic objects that mark the public space. This paper compares patterns of LL in a variety of homogeneous and mixed Israeli cities, and in East Jerusalem. The groups studied were Israeli Jews, Palestinian Israelis and non-Israeli Palestinians from East Jerusalem, of whom most are not Israeli citizens. The study focused on the degree of visibility on private and public signs of the three major languages of Israel-Hebrew, Arabic and English. This study reveals essentially different LL patterns in Israel's various communities: Hebrew - English signs prevail in Jewish communities; Arabic - Hebrew in Israeli - Palestinian communities; Arabic - English in East Jerusalem. Further analyses also evince significant - and different - discrepancies between public and private signs in the localities investigated. All in all, LL items are not faithfully representative of the linguistic repertoire typical of Israel's ethnolinguistic diversity, but rather of those linguistic resources that individuals and institutions make use of in the public sphere. It is in this perspective that we speak of LL in terms of symbolic construction of the public space which we explain by context-dependent differential impacts of three different factors - rational considerations focusing on the signs' expected attractiveness to the public and clients; aspirations of actors to give expression to their identity through their choice of patterns that, in one way or another, represent their presentation of self to the public; and power relations that eventually exist behind choices of patterns where sociopolitical forces share relevant incompatible interests.