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Language in Jewish society : towards a new understanding /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Myhill, John, 1956-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Clevedon, [England] ; Buffalo, NY : Multilingual Matters, [2004]
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects:
Jews > Languages.
Sociolinguistics.
Jews > Identity.
Hebrew language > History.
Table of Contents:
  • 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.