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" Language in Jewish society "
/ John Myhill
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The Center of European Languages of Qom(Ale Beit Publications)
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BL
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685
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b11276
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English
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| Main Entry
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Myhill, John, 1956
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Language in Jewish society:towards a new understanding/ John Myhill
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| Edition Statement
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1st ed.
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| Publication Statement
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Clevedon, [England] ;Buffalo, NY: Multilingual Matters,, c2004.
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ix, 239 p.: ; 21 cm.
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1853597619(hbk : alk.paper)
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Print
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-235) and index.
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| Contents
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Language and Jewish identity -- Jewish language and identity in comparative and historical perspective -- Language and Jewish identity in modern times -- Hebrew as language of ancient Israel -- The death of Hebrew as a spoken language -- Hebrew as a sacred language -- Diaspora Hebrew and the modern European ideology of language and identity -- The revival of Hebrew -- Diaspora Hebrew today -- Aramaic -- Judeo-Arabic -- Judeo-Spanish -- Yiddish -- Are 'Jewish languages' a unique phenomenon? -- Why are there no new 'Jewish languages'? -- Flowering and death -- Catastrophe and emotional attachment -- Prestige of languages -- Is Yiddish qualitatively different from other diaspora languages? -- Conflicts with everyday-language-and-identity groups -- Sociolinguistics in Israel today.
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JewsLanguages
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Sociolinguistics
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JewsIdentity
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Hebrew languageHistory
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| Dewey Classification
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306.44.089924
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PJ5067.M94 2004
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