Exploring the Features of the Palestinian Detainees Released from the Israeli Occupation Jails as Discourse Community
Abstract
This study investigates the Palestinian prisoners detained in and released from the Israeli occupation jails as a discourse community. Thus, the proposed study fits into the sociolinguistic studies which concern the study of language and community. In general, the study attempts to develop a full understanding of the prisoner’s community. In particular, it aims to critically aims to identify the characteristic features of the Palestinian detainee discourse community, describe these features, and explain the reasons lying behind the selection of certain features among the prisoners’ community. The study applies a qualitative research method, in which the fully structured interview and its content are utilized for data collection and analysis. It has been found as well as concluded that the Palestinian detainee discourse community has eight characteristic features which include developing a set of common goals and objectives, developing some specific genres, acquiring as well as using specific lexes and jargons, possessing some mechanisms of intercommunication between its members, applying participatory mechanisms for providing information and feedback with other communities, possessing a threshold of varied membership, having a horizon of expectations, and finally developing some silential relations with its members. This Paper is split from an MA Thesis submitted to the Department of Languages, Palestine Ahliya University in 2023. The researchers hope that their paper contributes to sociolinguistic studies, in general, and to that of the Palestinian community, in particular.
Keywords:
Discourse Communities, Palestinian Detainees, Israeli Jails, Palestinian QuestionReferences
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