Language in Jewish society towards a new understanding

Language and Jewish identity -- Jewish language and identity in comparative and historical perspective -- Language and Jewish identity in modern times -- Hebrew as language of ancient Israel -- The death of Hebrew as a spoken language -- Hebrew as a sacred language -- Diaspora Hebrew and the modern...

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1. Verfasser: Myhill, John (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: Clevedon, (UK) u.a. Multilingual Matters c 2004
Ausgabe:1. ed.
Schriftenreihe:Multilingual matters 128
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Zusammenfassung:Language and Jewish identity -- Jewish language and identity in comparative and historical perspective -- Language and Jewish identity in modern times -- Hebrew as language of ancient Israel -- The death of Hebrew as a spoken language -- Hebrew as a sacred language -- Diaspora Hebrew and the modern European ideology of language and identity -- The revival of Hebrew -- Diaspora Hebrew today -- Aramaic -- Judeo-Arabic -- Judeo-Spanish -- Yiddish -- Are 'Jewish languages' a unique phenomenon? -- Why are there no new 'Jewish languages'? -- Flowering and death -- Catastrophe and emotional attachment -- Prestige of languages -- Is Yiddish qualitatively different from other diaspora languages? -- Conflicts with everyday-language-and-identity groups -- Sociolinguistics in Israel today
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-235) and index
Beschreibung:IX, 239 S.
21 cm
ISBN:1853597600
1-85359-760-0
1853597619
1-85359-761-9