Dr Uri Horesh

Lecturer (Education and Research) in Arabic Studies

Researcher profile

Phone

+44 (0)1334 46 1781

Email

uh4@st-andrews.ac.uk

Office

Room 9

Location

United Colleges

Office hours

Monday 12-1, Wednesday 12-1

 

Research areas

Uri Horesh is a Lecturer in the Department of Arabic and Persian at the University of St Andrews and an Honorary Senior Lecturer in the Department of Language and Linguistics at the University of Essex. They hold a PhD in Sociolinguistics from the University of Essex (2014) and held a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship at Essex between 2016 and 2019. They have taught linguistics, translation, and Arabic at a number of universities and colleges in the United States, Palestine, and the United Kingdom.

They are interested in Sociolinguistics, particularly language variation and change and language contact in the Middle East, historical sociolinguistics, Arabic, Hebrew and Yiddish dialectology. They are a co-editor of The Routledge Handbook of Arabic Sociolinguistics (2019) and a co-author of the textbook Arabic Sociolinguistics (Cambridge University Press, 2022).

Prospective PhD students are invited to email Uri for an initial informal consultation.

Selected publications

• Arabic sociolinguistics

  Al-Wer, E., Horesh, U., Herin, B. & De Jong, R., 1 Jul 2022, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 238 p.

  Research output: Book/Report › Book

• الأدب الشعبيّ اليهوديّ العراقيّ ومفهوم اليهوديّ العربيّ

  Bashkin, O. & Horesh, U., 2023, In: المجلة - مجمع اللغة العربية، حيفا. 14, p. 11–39 29 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access

  Palestinian dialects and identities shifting across physical and virtual borders

  Horesh, U., 1 Sept 2021, In: Multilingua. 40, 5, p. 647-673 27 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Dialect contact and change in the Arabic feminine ending morpheme

  Horesh, U., Al-Wer, E., AlAmmar, D. & Al-Bohnayyah, M., 6 Dec 2022, Perspectives on Arabic linguistics XXXIII: papers selected from the Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics, Toronto, Canada, 2019. Ali, A-K. & Hachimi, A. (eds.). Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, p. 27–49 23 p. (Studies in Arabic linguistics; vol. 11).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• Sociolinguistic variation and variation in sociolinguistics

  Horesh, U., 1 Sept 2021, The Cambridge handbook of Arabic linguistics. Ryding, K. C. & Wilmsen, D. (eds.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, p. 181–198 18 p. (Cambridge handbooks in language and linguistics).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• Open access

  Probing linguistic change in Arabic vernaculars: a sociohistorical perspective

  Al-Wer, E., Horesh, U., Alammar, D., Alaodini, H., Al-Essa, A., Al-Hawamdeh, A., Al-Qahtani, K. & Hussain, A. A., Feb 2022, In: Language in Society. 51, 1, p. 29-50 22 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• الشاعر المناضل شفيق حبيب ومساهمته في تعزيز الثقافة والهوية الفلسطينية

  Abu Jaber, S. & Horesh, U., 2022, دراسات في الثقافة والهوية في المجتمع العرﺑﻲ الفلسطيني في إسرائيل: studies on culture and identity. Haj Yehia, K. (ed.). Haifa: Beit Berl College, p. 301–316 16 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• Communism, Commitment and Humanity: David Semah

  Horesh, U. & Bashkin, O., 2021, In: Banipal. 72, p. 48–55

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

• Two languages, one variable? Pharyngeal realizations among Arabic–Hebrew bilinguals

  Gafter, R. J. & Horesh, U., 1 Jun 2020, In: Journal of Sociolinguistics. 24, 3, p. 369-387 19 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Arabic sociolinguistics: Principles and epistemology

  Al-Wer, E. & Horesh, U., 13 Jun 2019, The Routledge Handbook of Arabic Sociolinguistics. Taylor and Francis, p. 1-11 11 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

 

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