Language ideology in American Jewish thought
This article establishes the existence of an American Jewish tradition of metalinguistic thought that stretches from the mid-twentieth century to our time. It demonstrates how American Jewish thinkers’ reflections on language implied a response to the claims made on their Jewish identity by their sy...
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| Type de support: | Électronique Article |
| Langue: | Anglais |
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Routledge
2022
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Religion
Année: 2022, Volume: 52, Numéro: 3, Pages: 384-408 |
| Sujets / Chaînes de mots-clés standardisés: | B
USA
/ Judaïsme
/ Métalangage
/ Langues juives
/ Idéologie
/ Hébreu
/ Anglais
/ Histoire 1945-2022
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| RelBib Classification: | AG Vie religieuse BH Judaïsme KBQ Amérique du Nord TK Époque contemporaine |
| Sujets non-standardisés: | B
language ideology
B Jewish English B homeland-diaspora relations B American Judaism B Israeli Hebraism B metalinguistic thought |
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| Résumé: | This article establishes the existence of an American Jewish tradition of metalinguistic thought that stretches from the mid-twentieth century to our time. It demonstrates how American Jewish thinkers’ reflections on language implied a response to the claims made on their Jewish identity by their symbolic homeland, Israel. In particular, thinkers rejected the questioning approach of Israeli intellectuals towards English as a medium for Jewish cultivation, and Israel’s fundamentally secular conception of Hebrew as a language and culture. The earlier, postwar thinkers challenged Israeli Hebraist assumptions by framing language as a ‘communicative tool’ that conveys (rather than embodies) religious identity. More recent thinkers took a different approach by suggesting that English is at present already a Jewish language, as it incorporates features based on Hebrew or Yiddish. Earlier and later metalinguistic thought implies continuity, but also a shift of emphasis, in how Jewish particularism could and should be expressed in America. |
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| ISSN: | 1096-1151 |
| Contient: | Enthalten in: Religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/0048721X.2021.1994481 |