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Autore |
Myhill John <1956-> |
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Titolo |
Language in Jewish society [[electronic resource] ] : towards a new understanding / / John Myhill |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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Clevedon, [England] ; ; Buffalo, NY, : Multilingual Matters, c2004 |
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ISBN |
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1-280-82843-9 |
9786610828432 |
9781853597624 |
1-85359-762-7 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (249 p.) |
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Collana |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Jews - Languages |
Sociolinguistics |
Jews - Identity |
Hebrew language - History |
Electronic books. |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-235) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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This book argues that the usage of language in Jewish societies can be understood as following from certain specific principles, particularly regarding the relationship between language and identity. Phenomena discussed include the revival of Hebrew, Hebrew in the Diaspora, the |
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