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Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004310894
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 372
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Language Contact and the Development of Modern Hebrew, edited by Edit Doron, presents twenty four different innovative syntactic constructions of Modern Hebrew, attributing them to syntactic change due to the impact of contact languages on previous stages of Hebrew. The contents of this volume was also published as a special double issue of Journal of Jewish Languages, 3: 1-2 (2015).
Author: Edit Doron
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN: 9027262438
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 402
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The emergence of Modern Hebrew as a spoken language constitutes a unique event in modern history: a language which for generations only existed in the written mode underwent a process popularly called “revival”, acquiring native speakers and becoming a language spoken for everyday use. Despite the attention it has drawn, this particular case of language-shift, which differs from the better-documented cases of creoles and mixed languages, has not been discussed within the framework of the literature on contact-induced change. The linguistic properties of the process have not been systematically studied, and the status of the emergent language as a (dis)continuous stage of its historical sources has not been evaluated in the context of other known cases of language shift. The present collection presents detailed case studies of the syntactic evolution of Modern Hebrew, alongside general theoretical discussion, with the aim of bringing the case of Hebrew to the attention of language-contact scholars, while bringing the insights of the literature on language contact to help shed light on the case of Hebrew.
Author: Norman Berdichevsky
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476626294
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 239
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Ben-Yehuda's vision of a modern Hebrew eventually came to animate a large part of the Jewish world, and gave new confidence and pride to Jewish youth during the most difficult period of modern history, infusing Zionism with a dynamic cultural content. This book examines the many changes that occurred in the transition to Modern Hebrew, acquainting new students of the language with its role as a model for other national revivals, and explaining how it overcame many obstacles to become a spoken vernacular. The author deals primarily with the social and political use of the language and does not cover literature. Also discussed are the dilemmas facing the language arising from the fact that Israelis and Jews in the Diaspora "don't speak the same language," while Israeli Arabs and Jews often do.
Author: Joel Hoffman
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 0814736904
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 278
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Written in language simple enough for everyone to learn, this sweeping history traces the Hebrew language's development and covers the dramatic story of the rebirth of Hebrew as a modern, spoken language.
Author: G. Zuckermann
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1403938695
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 305
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Israeli Hebrew is a spoken language, 'reinvented' over the last century. It has responded to the new social and technological demands of globalization with a vigorously developing multisourced lexicon, enriched by foreign language contact. 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 the attitudes of 'purists' and ordinary native speakers in the tension between linguistic creativity and the preservation of a distinct language identity.
Author: Ruth A. Berman
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN: 9027262063
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 702
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The goal of the volume is to shed fresh light on Modern Hebrew from perspectives aimed at readers interested in the domains of general linguistics, typology, and Semitic studies. Starting with chapters that provide background information on the evolution and sociolinguistic setting of the language, the bulk of the book is devoted to usage-based studies of the morphology, lexicon, and syntax of current Hebrew. Based primarily on original analyses of authentic spoken and online materials, these studies reflect varied theoretical frames-of-reference that are largely model-neutral in approach. To this end, the book presents a functionally motivated, dynamic approach to actual usage, rather than providing strictly structuralist or formal characterizations of particular linguistic systems. Such a perspective is particularly important in the case of a language undergoing accelerated processes of change, in which the gap between prescriptive dictates of the Hebrew Language Establishment and the actual usage of educated, literate but non-expert speaker-writers of current Hebrew is constantly on the rise.
Author: Yona Gilead
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004346414
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 261
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In Dynamics of Teaching and Learning Modern Hebrew, Yona Gilead’s original research into classroom interactions, offers a thick description of a successful beginner-level Modern Hebrew program at an Australian university, thus offering a model for renewed interest in Hebrew L2 research.
Author: Ora Schwarzwald
Publisher: Spotlight Poets
ISBN:
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 106
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"The revival of Hebrew in Israel during the last century is a unique phenomenon: a language used for over 1700 years by Jews around the world solely in liturgy or writing came alive as a spoken, everyday language used for all purposes. Although those spearheading the movement to revive Hebrew tried to impose the norms of classical Hebrew on the rapidity evolving language, they were, in many respects, unsuccessful in this effort. Adapting to the circumstances in which it was used, Modern Hebrew developed independently, reflecting the previous linguistic background of the speakers, foreign influences and natural linguistic evolution. Modern Hebrew has taken its own unique course as revealed through its phonology, morphology, syntax, and lexical structure. This book examines the unique features of this dynamic language."--Book cover.
Author: Bernard Spolsky
Publisher: Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 192
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The Old City of Jerusalem, small and densely populated, is a complex microcosm of Israeli society. It is a multilingual community characterized by unequal power relations between the speakers of the two official languages of Israel--Arabs and Jews. The authors begin with a sociolinguistic sketch of the Old City in the present day. They then provide a historical background to their field study, discussing Jewish multilingualism from the period of the Second Temple until modern times, the sociolinguistics of revival and spread of Hebrew. They go on to develop a model of the rules of language choice which arises from their social context. The authors demonstrate that, because of the close association between language use and social structure, the study of language use in a multilingual society is at the same time both powerful and delicate method of studying the dynamics of group interactions.
Author: Adina Mosak Moshavi
Publisher: Linguistic Studies in Ancient
ISBN: 9781575064819
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 411
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Based on papers presented at the 16th World Congress of Jewish Studies.
