Language and culture in the Near East
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Language and culture in the Near East
(Israel oriental studies, 15)
E.J. Brill, 1995
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Description and Table of Contents
Description
This work provides a guide to language and culture in the Near East. Chapters cover topics including: language, audience and impast in Imperial Aseyria; Judeo-Arabic in its sociolinguistic setting; Arabic diglossia in the classroom; and Greek as the superstrate written language of the Jews.
Table of Contents
From Language to Culture: Reconstructing the Cultural Setting from Textual Evidence
Rina Drory, 'Bilingualism and Cultural Images: The Hebrew and the Arabic Introductions of Saadia Gaon's Sefer ha-Egrom.'
Hannes D. Galter, 'Cuneiform Bilingual Royal Inscriptions.'
Barbara Nevling Porter, 'Language, Audience and Impast in Imperial Assyria.'
Benjamin Hary, 'Judeo-Arabic in Its Sociolinguistic Setting.'
Shlomo Izre'el, 'The Amarna Glosses: Who Wrote What for Whom? Some Sociolinguistic Considerations.'
Itamar Singer, 'Some Thoughts on Translated and Original Hittite Literature.'
Between Language and Culture: Cultural Dispositions for Linguistic Choice
Muhammad Hasan Amara, 'Arabic Diglossia in the Classroom: Assumptions and Reality.'
Gabriel M. Rosenbaum, 'Fush aa within Dramatic Dialogue Written in the Colloquial.'
Gary A. Rendsburg, 'Linguistic Variation and the "Foreign" Factor in the Hebrew Bible.'
Orly Goldwasser, 'On the Conception of the Poetic Form: A Love Letter to a Departed Wife (Ostracon Louvre 698).'
Shlomit Shraybom-Shivtiel, 'The Role of the Colloguial in the Renaissance of Standard Arabic: Language as a Mirror of Social Change'
From Culture to Language: Cultural Contacts and Linguistic Interference
Michael L. Chyet, 'Neo-Aramaic and Kurdish: An Interdisciplinary Consideration of Their Influence on Each Other.'
Baruch Podolsky, 'Mass Immigration and Its Possible Impact on the Linguistic Situation in Israel.'
Saul Levin, 'Greek as the Superstrate Written Language of Jews and Other Semitic Populations.'
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