Roey J. Gafter

I am an Associate Professor at the Department of Hebrew Language and Sociolinguistics at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.

My research explores how linguistic resources are recruited to produce, maintain and reify social divisions and ideologies, focusing mainly on issues of ethnicity, regional/national identity and sexuality. I do so by adopting a diverse set of methodologies, drawing on variationist sociolinguistics and qualitative approaches to the discursive construction of social meaning. 

Much of my research focuses on the sociophonetics of Hebrew, but I am also interested (among other things) in morphosyntactic variation in Hebrew, contact between Hebrew and Arabic, and variation in Yiddish.