Roey J. Gafter

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

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.

You can download my CV here, or check out my recent publications (and see what I’m up to in general) here.