25.2683, Books: The Languages of the Jews: Spolsky
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Subject: 25.2683, Books: The Languages of the Jews: Spolsky
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Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2014 14:04:06
From: Hannah Daldry [hdaldry at cambridge.org]
Subject: The Languages of the Jews: Spolsky
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Title: The Languages of the Jews
Subtitle: A Sociolinguistic History
Publication Year: 2014
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
http://cambridge.org
Book URL: http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/languages-linguistics/arabic-and-middle-eastern-language-and-linguistics/languages-jews-sociolinguistic-history?format=PB
Author: Bernard Spolsky
Hardback: ISBN: 9781107055445 Pages: Price: U.S. $ 99.00
Paperback: ISBN: 9781107699953 Pages: Price: U.S. $ 36.99
Abstract:
Historical sociolinguistics is a comparatively new area of research,
investigating difficult questions about language varieties and choices in
speech and writing. Jewish historical sociolinguistics is rich in unanswered
questions: when does a language become ‘Jewish’? What was the origin of
Yiddish? How much Hebrew did the average Jew know over the centuries? How was
Hebrew re-established as a vernacular and a dominant language? This book
explores these and other questions, and shows the extent of scholarly
disagreement over the answers. It shows the value of adding a sociolinguistic
perspective to issues commonly ignored in standard histories. A vivid
commentary on Jewish survival and Jewish speech communities that will be
enjoyed by the general reader, and is essential reading for students and
researchers interested in the study of Middle Eastern languages, Jewish
studies, and sociolinguistics.
Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics
Sociolinguistics
Subject Language(s): Hebrew (heb)
Yiddish, Eastern (ydd)
Yiddish, Western (yih)
Written In: English (eng)
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