03270oam 22006974a 450 991078378250332120231121162222.01-280-82843-9978661082843297818535976241-85359-762-710.21832/9781853597626(CKB)1000000000245122(EBL)227104(OCoLC)567989221(SSID)ssj0000188981(PQKBManifestationID)12011174(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000188981(PQKBWorkID)10154361(PQKB)10539383(MiAaPQ)EBC227104(DE-B1597)513625(OCoLC)1083592306(DE-B1597)9781853597626(Au-PeEL)EBL227104(CaPaEBR)ebr10096143(EXLCZ)99100000000024512220040209d2004 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierLanguage in Jewish society towards a new understanding /John Myhill1st ed.Clevedon, [England] ;Buffalo, NY :Multilingual Matters,2004.1 online resource (249 pages)Multilingual Matters1-85359-760-0 1-85359-761-9 Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-235) and index.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.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 survival and ‘sanctification’ of Yiddish, the idea of ‘Jewish languages’, and the role of sociolinguistic phenomena in the Holocaust and the Arab-Israeli conflict.Multilingual matters (Series)JewsLanguagesSociolinguisticsJewsIdentityHebrew languageHistoryJewsLanguages.Sociolinguistics.JewsIdentity.Hebrew languageHistory.306.44/089/924Myhill John1956-1479166MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910783782503321Language in Jewish society3695151UNINA