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DR EVE A. KHEIR

Books That Matter

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FROM DEATH TO PROSPERITY: DECIPHERING THE LANGUAGE OF MANIFESTATION

NEW BOOK: 

Codeswitching as an Index and Construct of Sociopolitical Identity

The Case of the Druze and Arabs in Israel 

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PORTFOLIO OF WORK

Past. Present. Future.

The following is a collection of my latest and most meaningful writing projects. Each piece is unique in style and content and represents a distinct moment in my career. I hope you enjoy my work and I invite you to contact me with any questions.

Books

August 2019

This study examines the language of the Druze community in Israel as going through the process of convergence and a composite Matrix Language formation, resulting in a split language, a.k.a. mixed language, based on Myers-Scotton’s Matrix Language turnover hypothesis (2002). Longitudinal data of Palestinian Arabic/Israeli Hebrew codeswitching from the Israeli Druze community collected in 2000 and 2017 indicate that there is a composite Matrix Language formation resulting in a split language. Such a composite involves convergence features in congruence with stage ii of the hypothesis, resulting in a composite morphosyntactic frame. The main features of convergence are the introduction of Israeli Hebrew system morphemes, including early system morphemes, bridge system morphemes and outsider late system morphemes-in some cases appearing independently, but in most cases, in conjunction with content morphemes. There are features of lexical conceptual structures and morphological realization patterns as well. Sociolinguistic factors are suggested as potential motivators for such composite and split language formation.

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April, 2021

In this highly inspirational work, the author offers a model that facilitates understanding of the language of Manifestation. Exploring ancient and contemporary wisdoms, certain faiths and ancient practices and philosophies, valuable lessons learnt through extremely harsh life experiences (including the author's own death experience), as well as long years of research, it includes systematic tools and methods to manifesting anything one desires to show up in his/her life. The author shares comprehensive step-by-step tools that she has personally applied throughout her spiritual journey and beyond to conquer extreme challenges and transform her life. This practical self-help guide will change your life forever! Here is what you will learn as you read this: • How to heal your past and be forever free; • How to make minor transformations on the soul level that will result in major transformations in the physical reality; • How the Law of Attraction really works; • how powerful emotions are in the manifestation work and how to conquer them; • the real principle behind affirmations and how to use them efficiently; • how to balance your energy centres (chakras) and raise your vibrations; • how to manifest anything using clear step-by-step tools and methods.

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February 2023

This book presents an empirically based examination of language patterns found among the Israeli Druze community, which is profiled against that of the Arabs in Israel. The results document the emergence of a mixed language previously undescribed and provides a socio-political analysis.
This study intends thus to make a contribution to the debate on "mixed languages", introducing a model that facilitates the analysis of the link bewteen codeswitching and sociopolitical identity. Special attention is paid to the assessment of language and identity issues of Golan Heights Druze and Israeli Druze, taking into exam two major political debates within these communities, regarding the Israeli Nation-state Law and the so-called ‘Syrian–Israeli secret Golan deal’ speculation.

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November 2022

Israbic is a language variety that is spoken by a majority of the Druze community in Israel and is characterised by a mixture of Israeli Hebrew and Palestinian Arabic. Longitudinal data of Palestinian Arabic/Israeli Hebrew code-switching from the Israeli Druze community collected in 2000, 2017 and 2018 indicate that Israbic went through a gradual process of language mixing. The process started with code-switching, was followed by a composite matrix language formation and ultimately resulted in a mixed language. Some linguists (see Backus, 2003Bakker, 2003) claim that mixed languages cannot arise out of code-switching. Conversely, others (see Auer, 1999Myers-Scotton, 2003) have proposed theoretical models to mixed languages as outcomes of code-switching, and some (see McConvell, 2008McConvel and Meakins, 2005Meakins, 2012O’Shannessy, 2012) have provided empirical evidence under which mixed languages arise out of code-switching. This research sought to gather further empirical evidence showing that Israbic is another mixed language that arose out of code-switching. This study also wished to emphasise the uniqueness of Israbic, which is a mixture of closely related languages. Such mixtures are scarce in the literature (Auer, 2014). An examination of Israbic in relation to Auer’s and Myers-Scotton’s models and general definitions in the literature and comparisons of Israbic with other widely accepted mixed languages reveals that Israbic is an excellent example of a mixed language. However, such models and definitions are based on existing languages that have been subject to discussion in the literature. Of these languages, the majority arose from contact between languages from different language families, whereas this study is concerned with investigating a mixed language from the same language family. Thus, this raises the question as to whether such concepts have the same validity for closely related languages.

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“The life of your dreams is what YOU choose it to be, not what others choose for you. The choice is always yours to have, do not hand it on to others.”

Dr Eve A. Kheir

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Dr Eve A. Kheir

Department of Linguistics

University of Adelaide

 GPO Box 498

Adelaide, SA 5005

Australia

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