ISBN:
1853597600
,
1853597619
Language:
English
Pages:
IX, 239 S.
,
21 cm
Edition:
1. ed.
Year of publication:
2004
Series Statement:
Multilingual matters 128
Series Statement:
Multilingual matters
DDC:
306.44089924
Keywords:
Jews Languages
;
Sociolinguistics
;
Jews Identity
;
Hebrew language History
;
Jüdische Sprachen
;
Soziolinguistik
;
Diaspora
;
Identität
;
Soziolinguistik
;
Judentum
;
Hebräisch
;
Aramäisch
;
Sprache
;
Soziolinguistik
;
Geschichte
Description / 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
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-235) and index
URL:
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0414/2004002815.html
