THE IMAGE OF PALESTINIANS IN THE ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN CONFLICT
Abstract
Te article examines the image of Palestinians in English-language young adult fction on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as perceived by the Israeli side. Te analysis is carried out within the scope of a new interdisciplinary feld of research, i.e. linguistic imagology, which is focused on the linguistic means of creating an image of a foreign people. Te article reveals theoretical aspects in the functioning of an imagological image, describes the structure and linguistic imagological mechanisms in the formation of the image of Palestinians as “the other” side of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. An image is more complex than a stereotype, though the former can sometimes transform into the latter, which occurs in the speech of teenage Israeli characters from the books under analysis through the use of mythologems and labels. Te author’s speech and the speech of older characters indicate a more mature perception of the other side in the conflict, which is actualized in the use of aphoristic sayings. Te dichotomy “we-they/ we-you” reveals the tendency to transform the opposition between civilian Israelis and Palestinians into their unification within one semantic group, which in its turn is opposed to the Israeli authorities and Palestinian leaders of extremist groups. Te results of the research demonstrate the writers’ attempts to overcome stereotypical perceptions of Palestinians by introducing a profound imagological image of the latter
About the Author
Sofya D. Kamalova
Moscow State Institute of International Relations (University)
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
76, Prospekt Vernadskogo, Moscow, 119454
Sofya D. Kamalova – postgraduate student, teacher, English Language Department №3. Spheres of research and professional interest: Imagology, Linguistic Imagology, Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
References
1. Baranov, Kh. K. Arabsko-russkij slovar’: ok.42000 slov. [Arabic-Russian Dictionary, Thrd Edition]. M.: Izdadel’ Valerij Kostin, 2001. – 944 p.
2. Zelenin, A. V. Nemtsy v russkoy kul’ture (Lingvisticheskaja imagologija) [Germans in Russian Culture (Linguistic Imagology)]. Russkij jazik v shkole [Th Russian Language at School], 2013, no. 4, pp. 63-71.
3. Zemskov, V. B. Rossiya na “perelome” [Russia at the Turning Point]. Na perelome: obraz Rossii proshloj i sovremennoj v kul’ture i literature Jevropi i Ameriki (konec XX-nachalo XXI vv.) [At the Turning Point: the Image of Past and Present Russia in European and American Culture and Literature (at the end of the XX-the beginning of the XXI centuries), 2011, pp. 4-26.
4. Ivanova, L. P. Afrika glazami Gumilyova (lingvoimagologicheskij aspect) [Africa in Gumilev’s Eyes (Linguoimagological Aspect)]. Uchyonije zapiski Tavricheskogo nacional’nogo universiteta im. V. I. Vernadskogo [Studies of Tavrida National Vernadsky University], 2013, vol. 26 (65), no. 1, pp. 471-477.
5. Ivanova, L. P. Lingvoimagologicheskije aspecti russkogo mirovidenija [Linguoimagological Aspects of Russian Worldview]. Russkij jazik: istoricheskije sud’bi i sovremennost’: V Mezhdunarodnij kongress issledovatelej russkogo yazika [Th Russian Language: Historical Destiny and Modernity: V International Congress of Russian-language researchers], 2014, pp.110-111.
6. Ivanova, L. P. Sintez nauki – arhitekturi – religii kak predmet lingvoimagologicheskogo opisanija (na material publicistiki Gogolya) [Synthesis of Science – Architecture – Religion as the Subject of Linguoimagological Description (based on Gogol’s Publicist Essays)]. Mir russkogo slova [Th World of the Russian Word], 2015, no.1, pp.52-56.
7. Koroleva, S. B. Mif o Rossii v britanskoj kul’ture i literature (do 1920-h godov) [Th Myth of Russia in British Culture and Literature (until 1920s). M.: Direkt-Media, 2014, 314 pp.
8. Kostina, K. V. Aksiologicheskij aspect jazikovoy reprezentacii obraza Rossii v sovremennom nemeckom mediadiskurse. Diss. kand. fiol. nauk [Th Axiological Aspect of Verbal Representation of the Image of Russia in the Modern German Mediadiscourse. Cand. phil. sci. diss.]. Irkutsk, 2011, 171 pp.
9. Oshchepkov, A. R. Imagologija [Imagology]. Znanije. Ponimanije. Umenije [Knowledge. Understanding. Skill], 2010, no.1, pp. 251-253.
10. Polyakov, O. Y. Obrazi i “mirazhi” Hugo Dizerinka (k programme Aahenskoj shkoli komparativistiki) [Hugo Dyserinck’s Images and “Mirages” (for the curriculum of Aachen School of Comparative Studies)]. Vestnik Vjatskogo Gosudarstvennogo universiteta [Th Journal of Vyatka State University], Kirov, 2013, pp. 121-125.
11. Poljakov, O. Y. Aktual’nije problemi izuchenija recepcii i reprezentacii nacional’nih obrazov v svete imagologii [Topical Issues of Studying the Reception and Representation of a National Character in the light of Imagology]. Imagologicheskije aspekti russkoj i zarubezhnoj literatur: mezhvuzovskij sbornik nauchnih trudov [Imagological Aspects of Russian and Foreign Literature: a Collection of Scientifi Articles], Vjatskij gos. gumanit. un-t, Kirov, Raduga-Press, 2012, 270 p.
12. Teorija i Metodologija istoricheskoj nauki. Terminologicheskij slovar’ [Thory and Methodology of the Historical Science. A Dictionary]. ed. by Chubaryan, A. O., M., 2014, pp. 122-123.
13. Ferroni, V. V. Tri Lika Drugogo: “drugoj”, “inoj”, “chuzhoj” [Thee Faces of the Other: “Another”, “Alien”, “Stranger”]. Vestnik Voronezhskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta [Th Journal of Voronezh State University], 2012, no. 1, pp. 112-130.
14. Banks, Lynne Reid. Broken Bridge. New York: Avon Books, 1994. 314 p.
15. Beller M, Leerssen J.(eds.). Imagology: Th Cultural Construction and Literary Representation of National Characters – A Critical Survey. Series: Studia Imagologica, vol. 13; series editors: Hugo Dyserinck and Joep Leerssen. Amsterdam; New York: Rodopi, 2007, 476 p.
16. http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/intifada (Accessed 19.09.2017).
17. http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/underground (Accessed 19.09.2017).
18. http://politike.ru/termin/intifada.html (Accessed 19.09.2017).
19. http://www.ldoceonline.com/dictionary/intifada (Accessed 19.09.2017).
20. https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/defiition/intifada (Accessed 19.09.2017).
21. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/intifada (Accessed 19.09.2017).
22. Kass, Pnina. Real Time. Boston: Graphia, Houghton Miffl Company, 2004. 186 p.
23. Miklowitz, Gloria. Th Enemy Has a Face. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans Books for Young Readers, 2003. 139 p.
24. Said, Edward “Intifada and Independence.” In Intifada: Th Palestinian Uprising Against Israeli Occupation, edited by Zachary Lockman and Joel Beinin. Boston: South End Press, 1989, 423 pp.
Review
For citations:
Kamalova S.D. THE IMAGE OF PALESTINIANS IN THE ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN CONFLICT. Linguistics & Polyglot Studies. 2017;4(12):92-100. (In Russ.)
Views:
500
Email this article 