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Readings in the Sociology of Jewish Languages

Readings in the Sociology of Jewish Languages
Author: Joshua A. Fishman
Publisher: Brill Archive
Total Pages: 320
Release: 1985-01-01
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 9789004072374

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Languages in Jewish Communities, Past and Present

Languages in Jewish Communities, Past and Present
Author: Benjamin Hary
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 706
Release: 2018-11-05
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1501504630

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This book offers sociological and structural descriptions of language varieties used in over 2 dozen Jewish communities around the world, along with synthesizing and theoretical chapters. Language descriptions focus on historical development, contemporary use, regional and social variation, structural features, and Hebrew/Aramaic loanwords. The book covers commonly researched language varieties, like Yiddish, Judeo-Spanish, and Judeo-Arabic, as well as less commonly researched ones, like Judeo-Tat, Jewish Swedish, and Hebraized Amharic in Israel today.


Reversing Language Shift

Reversing Language Shift
Author: Joshua A. Fishman
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Total Pages: 452
Release: 1991-01-01
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 9781853591211

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This book is about the theory and practice of assistance to speech-communities whose native languages are threatened because their intergenerational continuity is proceeding negatively, with fewer and fewer speakers (or readers, writers and even understanders) every generation.


Kafka's Jewish Languages

Kafka's Jewish Languages
Author: David Suchoff
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Total Pages: 276
Release: 2011-11-29
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0812205243

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After Franz Kafka died in 1924, his novels and short stories were published in ways that downplayed both their author's roots in Prague and his engagement with Jewish tradition and language, so as to secure their place in the German literary canon. Now, nearly a century after Kafka began to create his fictions, Germany, Israel, and the Czech Republic lay claim to his legacy. Kafka's Jewish Languages brings Kafka's stature as a specifically Jewish writer into focus. David Suchoff explores the Yiddish and modern Hebrew that inspired Kafka's vision of tradition. Citing the Jewish sources crucial to the development of Kafka's style, the book demonstrates the intimate relationship between the author's Jewish modes of expression and the larger literary significance of his works. Suchoff shows how "The Judgment" evokes Yiddish as a language of comic curse and examines how Yiddish, African American, and culturally Zionist voices appear in the unfinished novel, Amerika. In his reading of The Trial, Suchoff highlights the black humor Kafka learned from the Yiddish theater, and he interprets The Castle in light of Kafka's involvement with the renewal of the Hebrew language. Finally, he uncovers the Yiddish and Hebrew meanings behind Kafka's "Josephine the Singer, or the Mouse-Folk" and considers the recent legal case in Tel Aviv over the possession of Kafka's missing manuscripts as a parable of the transnational meanings of his writing.


Handbook of Jewish Languages

Handbook of Jewish Languages
Author:
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 780
Release: 2017-10-17
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9004359540

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This handbook, the first of its kind, includes descriptions of the ancient and modern Jewish languages other than Hebrew, including historical and linguistic overviews, numerous text samples, and comprehensive bibliographies.


Explorations in Judeo-Slavic Linguistics

Explorations in Judeo-Slavic Linguistics
Author: Paul Wexler
Publisher: Brill Archive
Total Pages: 314
Release: 1987
Genre: Comparative linguistics
ISBN: 9789004076563

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Jewish and Non-Jewish Creators of "Jewish" Languages

Jewish and Non-Jewish Creators of
Author: Paul Wexler
Publisher: Otto Harrassowitz Verlag
Total Pages: 966
Release: 2006
Genre: Hebrew language
ISBN: 9783447054041

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The present volume brings together 34 articles that were published between 1964 and 2003 on Judaized forms of Arabic, Chinese, German, Greek, Persian, Portuguese, Slavic (including Modern Hebrew and Yiddish, two Slavic languages "relexified" to Hebrew and German, respectively), Spanish and Semitic Hebrew (including Ladino - the Ibero-Romance relexification of Biblical Hebrew) and Karaite. The motivations for reissuing these articles are the convenience of having thematically similar topics appear together in the same venue and the need to update the interpretations, many of which have radically changed over the years. As explained in a lengthy new preface and in notes added to the articles themselves, the impetus to create strikingly unique Jewish ethnolects comes not so much from the creativity of the Jews but rather from non- Jewish converts to Judaism, in search (often via relexification) of a unique linguistic analogue to their new ethnoreligious identity. The volume should be of interest to students of relexification, of the Judaization of non-Jewish languages, and of these specific languages.


The Languages of the Jews

The Languages of the Jews
Author: Bernard Spolsky
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 377
Release: 2014-03-27
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 110705544X

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A vivid commentary on Jewish survival and Jewish speech communities, investigating difficult questions about language varieties and choices.


Concise Encyclopedia of Languages of the World

Concise Encyclopedia of Languages of the World
Author:
Publisher: Elsevier
Total Pages: 1320
Release: 2010-04-06
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0080877753

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Concise Encyclopedia of Languages of the World is an authoritative single-volume reference resource comprehensively describing the major languages and language families of the world. It will provide full descriptions of the phonology, semantics, morphology, and syntax of the world’s major languages, giving insights into their structure, history and development, sounds, meaning, structure, and language family, thereby both highlighting their diversity for comparative study, and contextualizing them according to their genetic relationships and regional distribution. Based on the highly acclaimed and award-winning Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, this volume will provide an edited collection of almost 400 articles throughout which a representative subset of the world's major languages are unfolded and explained in up-to-date terminology and authoritative interpretation, by the leading scholars in linguistics. In highlighting the diversity of the world’s languages — from the thriving to the endangered and extinct — this work will be the first point of call to any language expert interested in this huge area. No other single volume will match the extent of language coverage or the authority of the contributors of Concise Encyclopedia of Languages of the World. * Extraordinary breadth of coverage: a comprehensive selection of just under 400 articles covering the world's major languages, language families, and classification structures, issues and disputes * Peerless quality: based on 20 years of academic development on two editions of the leading reference resource in linguistics, Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics * Unique authorship: 350 of the world's leading experts brought together for one purpose * Exceptional editorial selection, review and validation process: Keith Brown and Sarah Ogilvie act as first-tier guarantors for article quality and coverage * Compact and affordable: one-volume format makes this suitable for personal study at any institution interested in areal, descriptive, or comparative language study - and at a fraction of the cost of the full encyclopedia