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Language in Jewish society : towards a new understanding / John Myhill.
| Author/creator | Myhill, John, 1956- |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Clevedon ; Buffalo : Multilingual Matters, ©2004. |
| Description | ix, 239 pages ; 21 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Table of contents |
| Subjects |
| Contents | 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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-235) and index. |
| LCCN | 2004002815 |
| ISBN | 1853597619 (hbk : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 1853597600 (pbk : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 1853597627 (electronic) |