Dr Uri Horesh
Lecturer (Education and Research) in Arabic Studies
- Phone
- +44 (0)1334 46 1781
- uh4@st-andrews.ac.uk
- Office
- Room 9
- Location
- United Colleges
- Office hours
- Monday 3-4, Tuesday 3-4
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.
PhD supervision
- Abdulrahman Alsayed
Selected publications
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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
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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
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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