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UNINA9910964822203321 |
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Autore |
Myhill John <1956-> |
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Titolo |
Language in Jewish society : towards a new understanding / / John Myhill |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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Clevedon, [England] ; ; Buffalo, NY : , : Multilingual Matters, , 2004 |
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ISBN |
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9786610828432 |
9781853597624 |
9781280828430 |
1280828439 |
9781853597626 |
1853597627 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (249 pages) |
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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 |
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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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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 |
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