Politics of Yiddish: Studies in Language, Literature and Society (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780761990253)

The geolinguistic aspects are obvious, especially in terms of preserving the culture 'of our fathers, ' government language policies and social developments antithetical to Yiddish, and so on....It is undeniable that Yiddish serves as a busy battleground for liguists with strong opinions and also as a subject for non-Jewish siciolinguists interested in the conflicts between favored and less favored languages growing and others fading in popularity or prestige, etc. The Yinglish if I may call it that, in which this book is now and then written, Yiddish words and expressions popping up with great regularity in a basically English text, is also fascinating. That is still another linguistic phenomenon in which sociolinguists ought to take more interest than they have heretofore done

Author: Dov-Ber Kerler
ISBN-10: 0761990259
ISBN-13: 9780761990253
Publisher: Altamira Press
Language: English
Published: 10/16/1998
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.79lbs
Size: 8.94h x 5.96w x 0.55d