Language Politics and Language Survival

Language Politics and Language Survival
Author :
Publisher : Peeters Publishers
Total Pages : 204
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9042917849
ISBN-13 : 9789042917842
Rating : 4/5 (842 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Language Politics and Language Survival by : Bruce Mitchell

Download or read book Language Politics and Language Survival written by Bruce Mitchell and published by Peeters Publishers. This book was released on 2006 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Language Politics and Language Survival: Yiddish among the haredim in post-war Britain outlines the history and development of the Yiddish language as it is used among Ultra-Orthodox Jews in contemporary Britain. The language policies of these communities are analysed and placed within the greater socio-historical and religious context of rabbinic justifications for the use of Jewish languages, and of Yiddish in particular. Reasons for the general abandonment of Yiddish outside of the haredi world are also summarized and placed in juxtaposition with the Yiddish language of loyalty of the haredim. Yiddish language and corpus planning in haredi schools is analysed using communal documents and newspaper articles, educational assessments of Jewish schools compiled by Her Majesty's Inspectors, a number of interviews with communal educators, tape recordings of lessons given in Yiddish, and observations made during my own visits to haredi educational institutions. A significant part of this book is dedicated to the analysis of the Yiddish language itself as it is currently used in Britain. The analysis of spoken Yiddish is based on recordings of speech patterns collected in the course of field work in haredi schools in London and Manchester and focuses primarily on dialectal usage based on religious sect and the geographic region within Britain. A brief sociological analysis of haredi literature in Yiddish is provided in order to demonstrate the ideological function of Yiddish language texts in contemporary Britain, and in the haredi world in general. The primary materials used for this are texts produced by, and published within, the haredi communities of Britain.


Language Politics and Language Survival Related Books

Language Politics and Language Survival
Language: en
Pages: 204
Authors: Bruce Mitchell
Categories: Great Britain
Type: BOOK - Published: 2006 - Publisher: Peeters Publishers

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Language Politics and Language Survival: Yiddish among the haredim in post-war Britain outlines the history and development of the Yiddish language as it is use
Language Rights and Language Survival
Language: en
Pages: 304
Authors: Jane Freeland
Categories:
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-08-23 - Publisher: Routledge

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This book makes an important contribution to the growing debate on linguistic human rights. By bringing together research on language rights, language 'survival
A World of Indigenous Languages
Language: en
Pages: 222
Authors: Teresa L. McCarty
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-03-13 - Publisher: Multilingual Matters

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Spanning Indigenous settings in Africa, the Americas, Aotearoa/New Zealand, Australia, Central Asia and the Nordic countries, this book examines the multifacete
A Will to Survive
Language: en
Pages: 264
Authors: Stephen Greymorning
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2004 - Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

"In A Will to Survive, Stephen Greymorning introduces students to the voices of the indigenous people they are studying, to get a real sense of what it means to
Language, Politics, and Social Interaction in an Inuit Community
Language: en
Pages: 284
Authors: Donna Patrick
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-06-10 - Publisher: Walter de Gruyter

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Since the early 1970s, the Inuit of Arctic Quebec have struggled to survive economically and culturally in a rapidly changing northern environment. The promotio