| Record Type: |
Electronic resources
: Monograph/item
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| Title/Author: |
Language in Jewish society/ John Myhill. |
| Reminder of title: |
towards a new understanding / |
| Author: |
Myhill, John, |
| Published: |
Clevedon ;Multilingual Matters, : c2004., |
| Description: |
ix, 239 p. ;21 cm. |
| [NT 15003449]: |
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. |
| Subject: |
Hebrew language - History. - |
| Online resource: |
https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=119955An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click for information |
| ISBN: |
1853597627 (electronic bk.) |