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Communicating as an American Immigrant in Israel: The "Freier" Phenomenon and the Pursuit of an Alternative Value System.
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Bloch, Linda-Renee – Research on Language and Social Interaction, 1998
Examines a cultural phenomenon of "freier," or "sucker," in Israeli society, reflecting almost diametrically opposed values of American immigrants and native Israelis. In 47 interviews with American immigrants concerning communication interactions, insight was gained into the status and posture of the immigrants in the host…
Descriptors: Communication Problems, Culture Conflict, Foreign Countries, Immigrants
Multilingualism in Israel.
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Spolsky, Bernard – Annual Review of Applied Linguistics, 1997
Israel is fertile ground for research in multilingualism. Revitalization of Hebrew resulted in a tendency for ideological and instrumentally-motivated monolingualism to replace earlier multilingual patterns, even in the context of pressure for language shift by Arabic, Russian, Yiddish, and other languages, and Hebrew's competition with English in…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Diachronic Linguistics, English (Second Language), Ethnic Groups