The Revival of a Classical Tongue: Eliezer Ben Yehuda and the Modern Hebrew LanguageCONTRIBUTIONS TO THE SOCIOLOGY OF LANGUAGE brings to students, researchers and practitioners in all of the social and language-related sciences carefully selected book-length publications dealing with sociolinguistic theory, methods, findings and applications. It approaches the study of language in society in its broadest sense, as a truly international and interdisciplinary field in which various approaches, theoretical and empirical, supplement and complement each other. The series invites the attention of linguists, language teachers of all interests, sociologists, political scientists, anthropologists, historians etc. to the development of the sociology of language. |
Contents
Introduction | 7 |
The Hebrew Language Before Ben Yehuda | 11 |
Ben Yehuda Before Palestine | 18 |
Ben Yehuda in Palestine | 27 |
The Seven Steps of Ben Yehuda | 36 |
The Revival of Hebrew in the Schools | 94 |
The Effectiveness of Ben Yehudas Seven Steps | 112 |
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