The Languages Of Jerusalem

Author : Bernard Spolsky,Robert Leon Cooper
Publisher : Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UVA:X002047421

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The Languages of Jerusalem by Bernard Spolsky,Robert Leon Cooper Pdf

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 : Randall Buth,R.Steven Notley
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 463 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2014-03-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004264410

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The Language Environment of First Century Judaea by Randall Buth,R.Steven Notley Pdf

The articles in this collection demonstrate that a change is taking place in New Testament studies. Throughout the twentieth century, New Testament scholarship primarily worked under the assumption that only two languages, Aramaic and Greek, were in common use in the land of Israel in the first century. The current contributors investigate various areas where increasing linguistic data and changing perspectives have moved Hebrew out of a restricted, marginal status within first-century language use and the impact on New Testament studies. Five articles relate to the general sociolinguistic situation in the land of Israel during the first century, while three articles present literary studies that interact with the language background. The final three contributions demonstrate the impact this new understanding has on the reading of Gospel texts.

Author : Bernard Spolsky,Elana Goldberg Shohamy
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Education
ISBN : 1853594512

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The Languages of Israel by Bernard Spolsky,Elana Goldberg Shohamy Pdf

The practice and ideology of the treatment of the languages of Israel are examined in this book. It asks about the extent to which the present linguistic pattern may be attribited to explicit language planning activities.

Author : Hanna Herzog
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2018-01-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351291026

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Language and Communication in Israel by Hanna Herzog Pdf

This volume presents a broad range of the various approaches and questions that preoccupy Israel's sociologists of language and communication. It covers the relation of language and communication to daily life, to social and cultural pluralism, and to politics and elections.

Author : Bernard Spolsky
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2017-01-05
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789004340244

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The Languages of Diaspora and Return by Bernard Spolsky Pdf

Until quite recently, the term Diaspora (usually with the capital) meant the dispersion of the Jews in many parts of the world. Now, it is recognized that many other groups have built communities distant from their homeland, such as Overseas Chinese, South Asians, Romani, Armenians, Syrian and Palestinian Arabs. To explore the effect of exile of language repertoires, the article traces the sociolinguistic development of the many Jewish Diasporas, starting with the community exiled to Babylon, and following through exiles in Muslim and Christian countries in the Middle Ages and later. It presents the changes that occurred linguistically after Jews were granted full citizenship. It then goes into details about the phenomenon and problem of the Jewish return to the homeland, the revitalization and revernacularization of the Hebrew that had been a sacred and literary language, and the rediasporization that accounts for the cases of maintenance of Diaspora varieties.

Author : Moshe Piamenta
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789004348509

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Jewish Life in Arabic Language and Jerusalem Arabic in Communal Perspective by Moshe Piamenta Pdf

A retrospective lexico-semantic study of symbiotic mainstream Jerusalem Arabic, spoken by mixed and contiguous communities, shattered by existential, religious, political, and cultural clashes leading to aloofness and armed conflict resulting in Arabic-Hebrew split.

Author : Bernard Spolsky
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2014-03-27
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781107055445

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The Languages of the Jews by Bernard Spolsky Pdf

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

Author : Angel Sáenz-Badillos
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1996-01-25
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0521556341

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A History of the Hebrew Language by Angel Sáenz-Badillos Pdf

This book is a comprehensive description of Hebrew from its Semitic origins and the earliest settlement of the Israelite tribes in Canaan to the present day.

Author : Edward Yechezkel Kutscher
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Hebrew language
ISBN : UVA:X000399131

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A History of the Hebrew Language by Edward Yechezkel Kutscher Pdf

Author : Boaz Yakin
Publisher : First Second
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2013-04-16
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781466838659

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Jerusalem by Boaz Yakin Pdf

Jerusalem is a sweeping, epic graphic novel that follows a single family—three generations and fifteen very different people—as they are swept up in chaos, war, and nation-making from 1940-1948. Faith, family, and politics are the heady mix that fuel this ambitious, cinematic graphic novel. With Jerusalem, author-filmmaker Boaz Yakin turns his finely-honed storytelling skills to a topic near to his heart: Yakin's family lived in Palestine during this period and was caught up in the turmoil of war just as his characters are. This is a personal work, but it is not a book with a political ax to grind. Rather, this comic seeks to tell the stories of a huge cast of memorable characters as they wrestle with a time when nothing was clear and no path was smooth.

Author : Oz Aloni
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2022-02-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781800643048

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The Neo-Aramaic Oral Heritage of the Jews of Zakho by Oz Aloni Pdf

In 1951, the secluded Neo-Aramaic-speaking Jewish community of Zakho migrated collectively to Israel. It carried with it its unique language, culture and customs, many of which bore resemblance to those found in classical rabbinic literature. Like others in Kurdistan, for example, the Jews of Zakho retained a vibrant tradition of creating and performing songs based on embellishing biblical stories with Aggadic traditions. Despite the recent growth of scholarly interest into Neo-Aramaic communities, however, studies have to this point almost exclusively focused on the linguistic analysis of their critically endangered dialects and little attention has been paid to the sociological, historical and literary analysis of the cultural output of the diverse and isolated Neo-Aramaic communities of Kurdistan. In this innovative book, Oz Aloni seeks to redress this balance. Aloni focuses on three genres of the Zakho community’s oral heritage: the proverb, the enriched biblical narrative and the folktale. Each chapter draws on the author's own fieldwork among members of the Zakho community now living in Jerusalem. He examines the proverb in its performative context, the rewritten biblical narrative of Ruth, Naomi and King David, and a folktale with the unusual theme of magical gender transformation. Insightfully breaking down these examples with analysis drawn from a variety of conceptual fields, Aloni succeeds in his mission to put the speakers of the language and their culture on equal footing with their speech. The Martin Buber Society of Fellows at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem have kindly supported the publication of this volume

Author : Yasir Suleiman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2004-06-10
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0521546567

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A War of Words by Yasir Suleiman Pdf

Suleiman's book considers national identity in relation to language, the way in which language can be manipulated to signal political, cultural or historical difference. As a language with a long-recorded heritage and one spoken by the majority of those in the Middle East in various dialects, Arabic is a particularly appropriate vehicle for such an investigation. It is also a penetrating device for exploring the conflicts of the Middle East.'This is a well-crafted, well organized, and eloquent book. 'Karin Ryding, Georgetown University

Author : Peter Backhaus
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781853599460

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Linguistic Landscapes by Peter Backhaus Pdf

Linguistic Landscapes is the first comprehensive approach to language on signs. It provides an up-to-date review of previous research, introduces a coherent analytical framework, and applies this framework to a sample of signs collected in Tokyo. Linguistic Landscapes demonstrates that the study of language on signs provides a unique research perspective to urban multilingualism.

Author : Elana Shohamy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2006-05-02
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781134333516

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Language Policy by Elana Shohamy Pdf

Policies concerning language use are increasingly tested in an age of frequent migration and cultural synthesis. With conflicting factors and changing political climates influencing the policy-makers, Elana Shohamy considers the effects that these policies have on the real people involved. Using examples from the US and UK, she shows how language policies are promoted and imposed, overtly and covertly, across different countries and in different contexts. Concluding with arguments for a more democratic and open approach to language policy and planning, the final note is one of optimism, suggesting strategies for resistance to language attrition and ways to protect the linguistic rights of groups and individuals.

Author : Marilena Karyolemou,Pavlos Pavlou
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2014-08-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781443865807

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Language Policy and Planning in the Mediterranean World by Marilena Karyolemou,Pavlos Pavlou Pdf

Language Policy and Planning in the Mediterranean World is a collection of the best papers presented at the MedLPLP conference held at the University of Cyprus in 2009, enriched with invited contributions on the same topic. The book presents a panorama of situations with countries such as France, Germany, Cyprus, Malta, Italy, Spain, Poland, Turkey, Greece, Bulgaria, Albania, Romania and Serbia. It explores various aspects of the weight and ecology of the Mediterranean languages, discusses LPP in the light of international law and the protection of human rights, bilingual education and foreign language acquisition policies. It also addresses the issue of feminization in a broad range of Mediterranean languages comparing French, Italian, Spanish, and, for the first time, Standard and Cypriot Greek. Finally, the book also discusses language revival and renovation policies, language planning in the public space, as well as cases of micro-language management. The volume is an excellent source of information for scholars and students of LPP interested in the synchrony and diachrony of Mediterranean languages, in aspects of LPP activity in various Mediterranean countries and in specific LPP processes involving several languages within the area.