Myhill, John,  1956- <br/><br/>
Language in Jewish society  towards a new understanding /  [electronic resource] : 
John Myhill. 
 - 1st ed. 
 - Clevedon, [England] ;  Buffalo, NY :  Multilingual Matters,  c2004. 
 - ix, 239 p. ;  21 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-235) and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><br/>Electronic reproduction. <br/>Palo Alto, Calif. : <br/>ebrary, <br/>2009. <br/>Available via World Wide Web. <br/>Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Jews--Languages.<br/>Sociolinguistics.<br/>Jews--Identity.<br/>Hebrew language--History.
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<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PJ5067  / .M94 2004eb 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>306.44/089/924