Language in Jewish society : towards a new understanding / / John Myhill.
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| Year of Publication: | 2004 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | ix, 239 p. |
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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.