Language in Jewish society : towards a new understanding / John Myhill.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Myhill, John, 1956-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jews--Languages.

Jews.

Sociolinguistics.

Jews--Identity.

Hebrew language--History.

Hebrew language.

History.

Physical Description:

ix, 239 pages ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

Clevedon ; Buffalo : Multilingual Matters, [2004]

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-235) and index.

ISBN:

1853597619

1853597600

1853597627

OCLC:

54446242