The Languages of the Jews
A Sociolinguistic History
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23780960 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Bernard Spolsky (0000-0002-2990-5490, Bar-Ilan University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Publication date | 2014-03-27 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Languages of the Jews (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1017/cbo9781107295292 |
| OpenAlex | W595085215 |
| ISBN | 9781107295292 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 31 |
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.
Archaeology · Art · Hebrew · Jewish literature · Jewish studies · Judaism · Linguistics · Literature · Reading (process) · Sociolinguistics · Sociology · Value (mathematics) · Vernacular · Computer Science · Historical Linguistics and Language Studies · History · Language, Linguistics, Cultural Analysis · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Philosophy
Iudaea/Palaestina
The Languages of Diaspora and Return
An Overview of the Language History of the Hungarian Jewish Community in the Carpathian Basin and Diaspora with a Special Emphasis on Yiddish
Origins of Yiddish Dialects, written by Beider, Alexander. 2015
The Factors Regulating the Use of the Hebrew-Aramaic Component in Judeo-Spanish
In Memoriam, Professor Bernard Dov Spolsky, z”l (1932–2022)
Nonhuman language agents in online collaborative communities
Missionary Linguistics and the Protestant Policies for Missionary (Re)translations (English into Judeo-Spanish) in the Nineteenth Century
Language vitality
Exploring a Sociolinguistics of Islam
İşbîliye’den Sevilla’ya
Revisiting “verbal agreement”
The spread of participial clauses in Biblical Greek
Get up! Be Opened
Regime changes and the impact of informal labor
Arabic Language Academies in Israel Versus the Hebrew Language Academy
The Conceptualization of Language Legitimacy
Tattoos and tableaus of flourishing
Questions for Bernard Spolsky
Individual language advocates and managers
Language policy in Portuguese colonies and successor states
A sociolinguistics of Islam
Yiddish Writers in the Americas After the 1905 Russian Insurrection
Sacred landscapes at home
Islamising languages, linguistic diversity and language management
What does language revitalisation in the twenty-first century look like? New trends and frameworks
The history of Classical Hebrew
Language Making of Creoles in multilingual postcolonial societies
Sacred Speech and Written Word
The Digital (De)territorialization of Ladino in the Twenty-First Century
Thomas/Twin in the Fourth Gospel and the Gospel of Thomas
| Unique citing works | 31 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,82 |
| Citation span | 2015 - 2026 (12) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 22 |