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- Title
Attitudes toward foreign words in contemporary Hebrew.
- Authors
Fisherman, Haya
- Abstract
Foreign words are commonly used in all countries and languages. This is a sociohistorical phenomenon rather than a linguistic one. Interlanguage contact is regarded by anthropologists as an aspect of cultural contiguity, and linguistic interference as a form of acculturization. The use of foreign words is influenced not only by in-language factors but by others, such as the prestige of the lending language. For instance, the influence of American English, so conspicuous in Europe, has also reached the Hebrew language. In this article, it is the author's intention to examine the attitudes toward foreign words in contemporary Hebrew. Foreign words, those of European origin that have infiltrated Hebrew since its revival from 1880, are not integrated into Hebrew. They tend to avoid formations such as verb inflections, the construct state, and possessive pronominal suffixes. The importance of describing the phenomenon as it exists among speakers of Hebrew in Israel lies in the extensive use of foreign-language words in Hebrew today, an important and natural element in the development of Hebrew and its revival process.
- Subjects
HEBREW language; LOANWORDS; LANGUAGE &; languages -- Foreign elements; ANTHROPOLOGY; COMMUNICATION; ETHNOLOGY; NORTHWEST Semitic languages; LANGUAGE &; languages; FOREIGN Language Proficiency in the Classroom &; Beyond (Book)
- Publication
International Journal of the Sociology of Language, 1990, Vol 1990, Issue 86, p5
- ISSN
0165-2516
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1515/ijsl.1990.86.5