num_pages: 304
description: Israeli Hebrew is a spoken language, 'reinvented' over the last century. It has responded to the new social and technological demands of globalization with a vigorously developing multisourced lexicon, enriched by foreign language contact. In this detailed and rigorous study, the author provides a principled classification of neologisms, their semantic fields and the roles of source languages, along with a sociolinguistic study of the attitudes of 'purists' and ordinary native speakers in the tension between linguistic creativity and the preservation of a distinct language identity.
language: English
title: Language Contact and Lexical Enrichment in Israeli Hebrew
titlecomplete: Language Contact and Lexical Enrichment in Israeli Hebrew (Palgrave Studies in Language History and Language Change)
genres: Linguistics
ratings_count: 3
publisher: Palgrave Macmillan