The Revival of Classical Tongue: Eliezer Ben Yehuda and the Modern Hebrew Language (Contributions to the Sociology of Language [Csl])

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.

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.

Introduction I. The Hebrew Language Before Ben Yehuda II. Ben Yehuda Before Palestine III. Ben Yehuda in Palestine IV. The Seven Steps of Ben Yehuda V. The Revival of Hebrew in the Schools VI. The Effectiveness of Ben Yehuda’s Seven Steps Hebrew Language Bibliography English and European Language Bibliography