Talking Straight: Dugri Speech in Israeli Sabra Culture

by Tamar Katriel

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,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521326303
• ISBN13: 9780521326308
• Release Date: December 1986
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"