Talking Straight: Dugri Speech in Israeli Sabra Culture (Studies in the Social and Cultural Foundations of Language, Series Number 2)

Katriel, Tamar

ISBN 10: 0521326303 / ISBN 13: 9780521326308

Published by Cambridge University Press, 1986

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No dust jacket. Good hardcover with some shelfwear; may have previous owner's name inside. Standard-sized.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Talking Straight: Dugri Speech in Israeli Sabra Culture (Studies in the Social and Cultural Foundations of Language, Series Number 2)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication Date: 1986
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521326303
• ISBN 13: 9780521326308
• Binding: hardcover
• Condition: Good

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Synopsis

In modern Israel, the 'sabra', or native-born Israeli Jew, is held to be the mythic New Jew. A major symbolic vehicle for the affirmation of this identity is the use of 'dugri', or straight speech. Combining a sociolinguistic and a cultural-anthropological perspective, Tamar Katriel explores the 'dugri' idiom as a cultural form. She shows that while appeal to shared cultural meanings mitigates the blunt edge of 'dugri' speech for members of the culture, conversely outsiders often interpret the 'sabra's' directness as rudeness. She illustrates the meanings and forms associated with 'dugri' speech by discussing two public dramas which occurred in Israel in the early 1980s, revealing the potential effects of the use of conflicting speech styles. She also compares 'dugri' speech to directness and indirectness in other cultures and develops a preliminary framework for a typological analysis of direct and indirect speechways.