title: Th e concept of “dead language” as exemplified by Hebrew
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metadata.value: Yampolskaya, Sonya
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metadata.value: 2016-09-28T14:56:14Z
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metadata.value: 2016-09-28T14:56:14Z
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metadata.value: 2016-09
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metadata.value: Yampolskaya S. Th e concept of “dead language” as exemplified by Hebrew. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Series 13. Asian Studies. African Studies, 2016, issue 3, pp. 16–30.
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metadata.value: 10.21638/11701/spbu13.2016.302
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/3894
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metadata.value: This paper examines the problematic concept of dead language as exemplified by the Hebrew language.
  The first section presents a brief history of the concept of dead language in European linguistic
  thought. Originating in Italy of the 15th century, the term became common in European linguistic
  writings during the 16th to 18th centuries as an epithet for Latin, Ancient Greek and Hebrew. During
  the Haskala (Jewish Enlightenment) in the 19th century it was adopted by Jewish intellectuals and was
  current in linguistic controversies throughout the 20th century. Sections 2 and 3 show the key role the
  label dead as applied to Hebrew played in wide-spread polemics on Jewish language choice in Russia
  during the first quarter of the 20th century (§ 2) and in the discourse about a Hebrew “revival” in
  Palestine at the same period (§ 3). Later works on the history of Hebrew published in the 19th and 20th
  centuries proposed novel conceptualizations but nevertheless followed the idea of the “deadness” of the
  Hebrew language of previous periods, discussed in § 4. Examples of Hebrew usage which contradict
  Hebrew’s functioning exclusively as a language of religion and high-level writings are provided in
  § 5. The last section is a humble attempt to outline a possible direction for a description of Hebrew
  language history, avoiding the problematic term dead language and other related terms. Refs 69.
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: en
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Series 13. Asian Studies. African Studies;Issue 3
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: biological metaphor in linguistics
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: linguistic terminology
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: dead language
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Hebrew language “revival”
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Yiddish language
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: diglossia
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: dissolution of diglossia
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: history of linguistics
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Th e concept of “dead language” as exemplified by Hebrew
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: Article
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