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Author:   Eliezer Ben-Rafael (Professor of Sociology, Professor of Sociology, Tel Aviv University, Israel)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Clarendon Press
Dimensions:   Width: 16.20cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 23.80cm
Weight:   0.582kg
ISBN:  

9780198240723

ISBN 10:   0198240724
Pages:   304
Publication Date:   24 February 1994
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Part 1 The social fabric of languages: language in society; culture and social systems; social divisions and language; the market of languages. Part 2 Language and integration: language revival, integration and elitism; the shift to Hebrew; imposing without coercing. Part 3 The languages of social cleavages: Israel's social cleavages; the quantitative dimension; languages and stratification; languages and ethnicity; the languages of the religious cleavages; the case of a national minority. Part 4 The social market of languages: English in society; the social transformation of French; Yiddish in Israel; the diffusion of Arabic. Part 5 Theoretical perspectives: identity, boundaries and language; towards a theoretical approach. Appendices: social factors of the knowledge of languages; the non-Hebrew Israeli press.

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Ben-Rafael's book is sure to make a valuable contribution. Anthropological Linguistics

Ben-Rafael's book is sure to make a valuable contribution. --Anthropological Linguistics<br>

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