Contact and Ideology in a Multilingual Community : Yiddish and Hebrew among the Ultra-Orthodox.

Intro -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Notes on terminology and pronunciation -- Introduction -- 1. Language and ideology in the speech community -- 2. The setting: Yiddish public speaking -- 3. Two Hebrews, the holy and the profane -- 4. Speaking in the voice of the other -- 5. The impact of gender -- 6. Processes of lexical borrowing -- Contact and ideology: Conclusion -- References -- Index.

This series offers a wide forum for work on contact linguistics, using an integrated approach to both diachronic and synchronic manifestations of contact, ranging from social and individual aspects to structural-typological issues. Topics covered by the series include child and adult bilingualism and multilingualism, contact languages, borrowing and contact-induced typological change, code switching in conversation, societal multilingualism, bilingual language processing, and various other topics related to language contact. The series does not have a fixed theoretical orientation, and includes contributions from a variety of approaches.

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