The languages of Jerusalem
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The languages of Jerusalem
（Oxford studies in language contact）
Clarendon Press , Oxford University Press, 1991
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Bibliography: p. [152]-159
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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 Jerusalem one hundred years ago, and the recent revival and spread of Hebrew. They go on to develop a model of the rules of language choice which arises from their analysis of language use in street signs, and which they then apply to language use in the
market place. In the final chapters they examine language learning and language spread in 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 a powerful and a delicate method of studying the dynamics of group interactions.
Table of Contents
- The sociolinguistics of the Old City in the 1980s
- Jewish multilingualism
- the sociolinguistics of Old Jerusalem - non-Jewish languages in the late 19th century
- the sociolinguistics of Old Jerusalem - Jewish languages in the late 19th century
- the revitalization and spread of Hebrew
- the language of signs
- language choice in the market-place
- reflections of language planning
- language learning
- the spread of Hebrew among Arabic speakers.
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