Institutionalized Language Planning: Documents and Analysis of Revival of Hebrew (Janua Linguarum) (Contributions to the Sociology of Language [Csl]) (English and Hebrew Edition)

CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE SOCIOLOGY OF LANGUAGE brings to students, researchers and practitioners in all of the social and language-related sciences carefully selected book-length publications dealing with sociolinguistic theory, methods, findings and applications. It approaches the study of language in society in its broadest sense, as a truly international and interdisciplinary field in which various approaches, theoretical and empirical, supplement and complement each other. The series invites the attention of linguists, language teachers of all interests, sociologists, political scientists, anthropologists, historians etc. to the development of the sociology of language. PREFACE AUTHOR’S INTRODUCTION THE COLLECTION Introduction Upshots and Metamorphoses The Revival of Spoken Hebrew “A Speaker of Hebrew All His Life” The Pure Language Society Achieves Great Success The Pure Language Society The Literature Council in Action “They Spoke Hebrew in the Streets” The Language Council 1890–1912 Achad-Ha ̔am at the Discussion about the Language Council The Language Council “Fabricates” Words How Members Are Elected to the Language Council The Language Council, 1913–1920 The Academy of the Hebrew Language: A Memorandum to the Zionist Leadership Supplement to the Memorandum The Hebrew Language College in Jerusalem: A Memorandum to the High Commissioner Hebrew Is an Official Language The Language Council, 1918–1940 Towards the Establishment of the Academy of the Hebrew Language The Supreme Institute of the Hebrew Language Act, 1953 The Supreme Institute of the Hebrew Language Act (Revision), 1963 The Supreme Institute of the Hebrew Language Act (Revision No. 2), 1968 The Constitution of the Academy of the Hebrew Language The Supreme Institute of the Hebrew Language Act, 1953: Revision of the Constitution of the Academy of the Hebrew Language The Historical Dictionary of the Hebrew Language of the Academy of the Hebrew Language since the Founding of the Academy of the Hebrew Language and the Bialik Institute Members of the Language Council and the Academy, 1880–1973 Members of the Academy of the Hebrew Language at the Beginning of 1973 Expansion of the Language The Poverty of Language and the Poverty of Knowledge Pangs of a Language The Language Coiners The Language Neglecters On the Expansion of the Language “Expansionists – Destructionists” Purity of the Language On the Usage of the Language Pronunciation and Spelling “The Sephardic Pronunciation” “The Question of Choosing a Pronunciation” Concerning the Question of Pronunciation and Intonation The Decision on the Matter of Pronunciation, 1913 Concerning the Question of Pronunciation and Intonation in the Schools (A Teacher’s Comment) Spelling The Decision Concerning Unvocalized Spelling The Decision Concerning “Two Ways of Writing” CONCLUSION BIBLIOGRAPHY Works Cited Additional Selected Bibliography

CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE SOCIOLOGY OF LANGUAGE brings to students, researchers and practitioners in all of the social and language-related sciences carefully selected book-length publications dealing with sociolinguistic theory, methods, findings and applications.

It approaches the study of language in society in its broadest sense, as a truly international and interdisciplinary field in which various approaches, theoretical and empirical, supplement and complement each other.

The series invites the attention of linguists, language teachers of all interests, sociologists, political scientists, anthropologists, historians etc. to the development of the sociology of language.