Myhill Language in Jewish Society

Towards a New Understanding
1. Auflage 2004
ISBN: 978-1-85359-762-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 256 Seiten, Format (B × H): 149 mm x 210 mm

Reihe: Multilingual Matters

This book argues that language in Jewish societies can be understood as following from certain specific principles. It discusses the revival of Hebrew, Hebrew in the Diaspora, the survival and ‘sanctification’ of Yiddish, the idea of ‘Jewish languages’, and the role of sociolinguistic phenomena in the Holocaust and the Arab-Israeli conflict.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Myhill, John

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Soziolinguistik
• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Myhill John:
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).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).