Miriam Ben-Rafael’s research while affiliated with Independent Researcher and other places

... Each group has different motives for immigration and social integration, and their heritage languages differ in status in Israel. The limited research on French immigrants in Israel emphasises how the earliest immigrants were influenced by Zionist ideals and discouraged the use of French in favour of Hebrew for their children's education and socialisation (Ben Rafael and Ben Rafael 2013). The impact of the predominantly traditional French community on Israeli society has been modest. ...

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Immigrant student identities and classroom engagement

... langue nationale exclusive en exigence impérative » (Ben-Rafael et Ben-Rafael, 2014 : 67). Même si l'hégémonie de l'hébreu a tendu à faire disparaître les langues juives et les langues de la migration Ben-Rafael, 2011. C'est le cas par exemple d'émigrants d'Egypte ou de Roumanie qui avaient pour deuxième ou première 68 « Les vagues d'immigration vers Israël en provenance de ces pays ont été les plus fortes entre 1948 et la fin des années 60 suite à la fin du protectorat au Maroc en 1952 et à l'indépendance de l'Algérie en 1962. ...

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Alyah et transmission linguistique : le cas des olim français en Israël

... Backhaus, 2006;Gorter, 2006;Shohamy & Gorter, 2009) focus primarily on the description and analysis of material signs, analyse them by distinguishing between top-down/governmental and bottom-up/private signs, and adopt quantitative approaches in the analyses; borrowing from the field of semiotics, second-wave studies (e.g. Ben-Rafael & Ben-Rafael, 2019;Blommaert, 2013;Jaworski & Thurlow, 2010) focus on the semiotics and multimodality of the LL, typically adopting qualitative approaches including ethnography; and following the participatory/relational perspective tradition, third-wave studies (e.g. Blackwood, Lanza, & Woldemariam, 2016;Rubdy & Said, 2015) examine issues of language politics and sociolinguistic conflict in public spaces. ...

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Language and tourism in Cambodia: a multi-case study of the linguistic landscape in Phnom Penh hotels

... BenRafael and Ben Rafael (2014) dub this type of French mixed with Hebrew "Franbreu".15 For reasons of privacy, we changed the name of the interviewee. ...

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Documentation and Conservation of Life Stories of French-Speaking Elderly in Retirement Homes and in the Community

... The LL study is a study that involves collaboration between applied linguists, sociolinguists, sociologists, psychologists, geographers, culturalists, and several other disciplines (Rafael et al., 2018). LL is also considered a means of developing globalization that conquers the world through world-spanning commercial networks and massive migration from underprivileged countries to privileged countries (Ben- Rafael, 2015). The collocations of "hidden agenda" and "implicit message" are commonly used to describe the influence of LL on language ideology and pedagogical decisions in specific environments (Przymus & Kohler, 2018). ...

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Language of Resistance: Linguistic Landscape in the Protest of Kanjuruan Tragedy, Indonesia