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The languages of the Jews : a sociolinguistic history
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ISBN: 9781107055445 110705544X 9781107699953 1107699959 9781107295292 1139905457 1139899589 1107295297 Year: 2014 Publisher: New York : Cambridge University Press,

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Historical sociolinguistics is a comparatively new area of research, investigating difficult questions about language varieties and choices in speech and writing. Jewish historical sociolinguistics is rich in unanswered questions: when does a language become 'Jewish'? What was the origin of Yiddish? How much Hebrew did the average Jew know over the centuries? How was Hebrew re-established as a vernacular and a dominant language? This book explores these and other questions, and shows the extent of scholarly disagreement over the answers.


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The Language education of minority children : selected readings
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ISBN: 0912066652 9780912066653 0912066504 9780912066509 Year: 1975 Publisher: Rowley (Mass.) : Newbury House publishers,

Language policy.
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ISBN: 9780521804615 9780511615245 9780521011754 0521011752 0521804612 9781107321380 1107321387 1139809687 0511615248 0511839871 1107316944 1107315999 1299318711 1107315018 Year: 2004 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University press,

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Language policy is an issue of critical importance in the world today. In this introduction, Bernard Spolsky explores many debates at the forefront of language policy: ideas of correctness and bad language; bilingualism and multilingualism; language death and efforts to preserve endangered languages; language choice as a human and civil right; and language education policy. Through looking at the language practices, beliefs and management of social groups from families to supra-national organizations, he develops a theory of modern national language policy and the major forces controlling it, such as the demands for efficient communication, the pressure for national identity, the attractions of (and resistance to) English as a global language, and the growing concern for human and civil rights as they impinge on language. Two central questions asked in this wide-ranging survey are of how to recognize language policies, and whether or not language can be managed at all.


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Language management
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ISBN: 9780521516099 9780521735971 9780511626470 9780511719325 0511719329 0511626479 0521516099 0521735971 1282539213 9781282539211 1107190789 9786612539213 051171887X 0511515103 0511718411 051151638X Year: 2009 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge university press,

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Language policy is all about choices. If you are bilingual or plurilingual, you have to choose which language to use. Even if you speak only one language, you have choices of dialects and styles. Some of these choices are the result of management, reflecting conscious and explicit efforts by language managers to control the choices. This book presents a specific theory of language management. Bernard Spolsky reviews research on the family, religion, the workplace, the media, schools, legal and health institutions, the military and government. Also discussed are language activists, international organisations, and human rights relative to language, and the book concludes with a review of language managers and management agencies. A model is developed that recognises the complexity of language management, makes sense of the various forces involved, and clarifies why it is such a difficult enterprise.


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Measured Words : The development of objective language testing
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ISBN: 9780194372015 0194372014 Year: 1995 Publisher: Oxford [etc.] : Oxford University Press,

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The languages of Jerusalem
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ISBN: 0198239084 9780198239086 Year: 1991 Publisher: Oxford : Clarendon press,

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A sociolinguistic study of Jerusalem, covering Jerusalem's languages from the second Temple period to the Rpesent.


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New perspectives and issues in educational language policy : a festschrift for Bernard Dov Spolsky
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ISBN: 1556198558 9027225613 9786612162770 1282162772 9027298513 9789027298515 9781556198557 Year: 2001 Publisher: Amsterdam : Benjamins,

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This formidable selection of papers reflects the psycholinguistic and sociolinguistic underpinnings of the interface between language and education. Following an introduction that positions the field of educational linguistics historically and conceptually, the volume presents 15 contributions by leading scholars that cover the four areas most central to the field:- Language teaching, language learning and literacy (Widdowson, Bialistok, Cohen & Allison);- Language testing (Bachman, Davies, and Shohamy);- Multilingualism, minority languages and language planning (Bratt-Paulston, Fishman, Lambert, Amara, de Bot & van Els);- Language policy (Clyne, Tucker, Donato & Murday, McNamara & Lo Bianco, and Hornberger).New Perspectives and Issues in Educational Language Policy is published in honour of Bernard Dov Spolsky and reflects his impact on applied linguistics in general and educational linguistics in particular. The breadth and coverage makes this an indispensable title for future research in the field of educational linguistics.

The influence of language on culture and thought : essays in honor of Joshua Fishman's sixty-fifth birthday
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ISBN: 0899258026 3110128063 9780899258027 9783110128062 Year: 1991 Publisher: Berlin : de Gruyter,

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