[Lexicog] Book announcement: LANGUAGE CONTACT AND LEXICAL ENRICHMENT IN ISRAELI HEBREW

[Wayne Leman]

> NEW CROSS-LINGUAL LEXICOLOGY/LEXICOGRAPHY BOOK FOR THE NEW YEAR
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> ZUCKERMANN, Ghil`ad 2003. _Language Contact and Lexical Enrichment in
> Israeli Hebrew_. London-New York: Palgrave Macmillan. (Palgrave Studies in
> Language History and Language Change, Series editor: Charles Jones).
> Hardback, 304 pages, 216mm x 138mm, ISBN: 140391723X.
>
> ORDER THIS BOOK FROM THE PUBLISHER:
> EMAIL: orders at palgrave.com
> INTERNET:
> http://www.palgrave.com/catalogue/catalogue.asp?Title_Id=140391723X
>
> DETAILS ON THIS BOOK:
> ISRAELI HEBREW: http://www.zuckermann.org/haashara.html
> (MANDARIN) CHINESE: http://www.zuckermann.org/kuochong.html
> ITALIAN: http://www.zuckermann.org/arricchimento.html
> RUSSIAN: http://www.zuckermann.org/obogashcheniya.html
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>
> REVIEWS
>
> '..fascinating and multifaceted... a paean to linguistic creativity. It is
> especially timely in the present historical context of rapid globalization
> and linguistic inter-influence.'
>
> - Professor James A. Matisoff, Department of Linguistics, University of
> California, Berkeley
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> 'The volume is extremely impressive. Zuckermann demonstrates a mastery of
> European and Hebrew lexicography... In addition to developing a rigorous
> analytical framework, he offers many detailed word (and compound)
> histories and carves out a well-defined position on issues of much
> significance.'
>
> - Jeffrey Heath, Professor of Linguistics, University of Michigan
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> '...this is the first time that anyone has drawn attention to the extent
> to which 'phono-semantic matching' applies in word formation...a most
> important contribution to the study of Israeli Hebrew word formation in
> particular and of language change in general.'
>
> - Shmuel Bolozky, Professor of Hebrew, University of Massachusetts
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>
> 'This book will interest not only researchers and graduate students in the
> topic but also Hebraists. Moreover, any layman who loves words will find
> it absorbing and entertaining... it is both scholarly and original [and]
> an outstanding contribution to the science of etymology.'
>
> - Professor Geoffrey Lewis, St Antony's College, University of Oxford
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>
> SYNOPSIS
>
> Israeli Hebrew is a spoken language, 'reinvented' over the course of the
> twentieth century. It has responded to the social demands of the newly
> emerging state, as well as to escalating globalization, with a vigorously
> developing lexicon, enriched by multiple foreign language contacts. In
> this detailed and rigorous study, the author provides a principled
> classification of neologisms, their semantic fields and the roles of
> source languages, along with a sociolinguistic study of purists' and
> ordinary native speakers' attitudes towards lexical enrichment. His
> analysis of the tension between linguistic creativity and the preservation
> of a distinct language identity takes the discussion beyond the case of
> Israeli, through innovative comparisons with Revolutionized Turkish,
> Mandarin Chinese, Japanese, Arabic, Yiddish, creoles and other languages.
>
> At the beginning of the third millennium, our world is characterized by
> worldwide communication and the vast distribution of technological and
> 'talknological' devices. The mobility of the word respects no borders and
> the extent of that mobility may not be paralleled even in future (less
> heterogeneous) generations. The study of the modes and dynamics of
> language contact could hardly be more timely.
>
>
> CONTENTS
>
> Acknowledgements
> Abbreviations
>
> Introduction
> 1. New Perspectives on Lexical Enrichment
> 2. The Case of Israeli: Multisourced Neologization (MSN) as an Ideal
>    Technique for Lexical Enrichment
> 3. Addition of Sememe Versus Introduction of Lexeme
> 4. MSN in Various Terminological Areas
> 5. Sociolinguistic Analysis: Attitudes Towards MSN in 'Reinvented
>    Languages'
> 6. The Source Languages
> 7. Statistical Analysis
> 8. Conclusions and Theoretical Implications
>
> Appendix: Transcription, Transliteration and Translation
> References
> Index
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>
> SUBJECT LIST
>
> Language and culture; Languages in contact; Lexicology; Linguistics;
> Afroasiatic languages; American English; Americanization; Arabic language;
> Aramaic; Arts; Asian languages; Bible; Bilingualism; Borrowing;
> Camouflage; Change; Chinese language; Comparative linguistics; Contact
> linguistics; Creativity; Creole dialects; Culture; Dictionaries;
> Education; English as the global language; English language--Foreign
> countries; English language--Influence on foreign languages; Estonian;
> Etymology; Europe; Far East; Foreign Language - Dictionaries / Phrase
> Books; Foreign Language Study; French language--Influence on foreign
> languages; Gender; German language--Influence on foreign languages;
> Globalization; Grammar, Comparative and general--Word formation; Greek
> language--Influence on foreign languages; Hamito-Semitic languages;
> Hebrew; Hebrew language--Foreign words and phrases; Hebrew language--New
> words; Hebrew language--Revival; Hebrew language--Word formation;
> Historical linguistics; History; Humanities; Indo-European languages;
> Innovation; Israel; Japanese language; Jewish learning and scholarship;
> Jewish languages; Judaism; Language; Language and languages--Etymology;
> Language and languages--Orthography and spelling; Language planning;
> Lexical enrichment; Lexicography; Lexicon/lexis; Linguistic change;
> Mandarin; Medieval Hebrew(s); Middle East; Mishnah; Literature; Modern
> Hebrew; Morphology; Multilingualism; Non-fiction; Old Testament;
> Orthography; Philology; Phonetics; Phonology; Pidgin languages; Polish
> language--Influence on foreign languages; Politics; Portuguese; Purism;
> Rabbinic Hebrew; Reference; Religion; Revival; Russian language--Influence
> on foreign languages; Semantics; Semitic languages; Singlish (Singaporean
> English); Society; Sociolinguistics; Spanish; Survival; Talmud; Turkish
> language; Vocabulary; Yiddish language; Words; Writing; Written
> communication.
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>
> AUTHOR
>
> Ghil'ad Zuckermann, D.Phil. (Oxford), Ph.D. (Cambridge), M.A. (Tel Aviv),
> is Gulbenkian Research Fellow at Churchill College, Cambridge. He teaches
> at the Faculty of Oriental Studies and is affiliated with the Department
> of Linguistics, University of Cambridge. He has published in English,
> Israeli, Italian, Yiddish, Spanish, German and Russian; has taught in
> Singapore, the USA and Israel; and has held research posts in Italy, Japan
> and Australia. His further publications are listed at www.zuckermann.org.
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