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" The languages of the Jews : "
Bernard Spolsky
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640046
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Spolsky, Bernard
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The languages of the Jews : : a sociolinguistic history /\ Bernard Spolsky
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xiv, 361 pages :: illustrations ;; 23 cm
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9781107055445 (hardback)
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: 110705544X (hardback)
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: 9781107699953 (paperback)
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: 1107699959 (paperback)
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-341) and index
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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
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Jews-- Languages-- History
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Sociolinguistics
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Jews-- History
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408.9924
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PJ5061.S66 2014
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