Language in Jewish Society: Towards a New Understanding
Myhill was born and educated in the U.S.; now a resident of Israel, he has taught sociolinguistics at the U. of Haifa since 1995. In this text, he identifies and systematically summarizes sociolinguistic behavior in Jewish communities. Coverage includes an historical analysis of Jewish views on language and identify; diaspora Hebrew in different times and places; the revival of Hebrew; other Jewish languages (Judeo-Arabic, Judeo-Spanish and Yiddish); interactions between Jews and two other groups—Germans and Arabs—and the role of differing ideologies of identity in the Holocaust and the Arab-Israeli conflict; minority language policy in Israel; and prescriptivism in Modern Hebrew. Distributed in the U.S. by UTP Distribution. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
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Language in Jewish Society: Towards a New Understanding
Myhill was born and educated in the U.S.; now a resident of Israel, he has taught sociolinguistics at the U. of Haifa since 1995. In this text, he identifies and systematically summarizes sociolinguistic behavior in Jewish communities. Coverage includes an historical analysis of Jewish views on language and identify; diaspora Hebrew in different times and places; the revival of Hebrew; other Jewish languages (Judeo-Arabic, Judeo-Spanish and Yiddish); interactions between Jews and two other groups—Germans and Arabs—and the role of differing ideologies of identity in the Holocaust and the Arab-Israeli conflict; minority language policy in Israel; and prescriptivism in Modern Hebrew. Distributed in the U.S. by UTP Distribution. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
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Language in Jewish Society: Towards a New Understanding

Language in Jewish Society: Towards a New Understanding

by John Myhill
Language in Jewish Society: Towards a New Understanding

Language in Jewish Society: Towards a New Understanding

by John Myhill

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Myhill was born and educated in the U.S.; now a resident of Israel, he has taught sociolinguistics at the U. of Haifa since 1995. In this text, he identifies and systematically summarizes sociolinguistic behavior in Jewish communities. Coverage includes an historical analysis of Jewish views on language and identify; diaspora Hebrew in different times and places; the revival of Hebrew; other Jewish languages (Judeo-Arabic, Judeo-Spanish and Yiddish); interactions between Jews and two other groups—Germans and Arabs—and the role of differing ideologies of identity in the Holocaust and the Arab-Israeli conflict; minority language policy in Israel; and prescriptivism in Modern Hebrew. Distributed in the U.S. by UTP Distribution. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781853597602
Publisher: Multilingual Matters Ltd.
Publication date: 11/25/2004
Series: Multilingual Matters Series , #128
Edition description: 1ST
Pages: 256
Product dimensions: 5.82(w) x 8.25(h) x 0.51(d)

About the Author

John Myhill is an Associate Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at the University of Haifa, where he has taught sociolinguistics since 1995. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1984 and previously taught at SUNY-Buffalo and the University of Michigan. He has published articles on Jewish sociolinguistics in a number of journals and collections, and he has also done research on Hebrew semantics and syntax, Black English, and language typology. He is the author of Typological Discourse Analysis (1992).

Table of Contents

1. Introduction Language and Jewish Identity; Jewish Language and Identity in Comparative and Historic Perspective; Language and Jewish Identity in Modern Times; Conclusion 2. Hebrew 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; Conclusion 3. Other Jewish languages Aramaic; Judeo-Arabic; Judeo-Spanish; Yiddish; Are “Jewish languages” a Unique Phenomena?; 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?; Conclusion 4. Themes in Jewish sociolinguistics Conflict with everyday-language-and-identity Groups; Sociolinguistics in Israel Today Language, Identity and Nation References

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