TY - JOUR
T1 - Prescriptivism, nation, and style
T2 - The role of nonclassical elements in the stylistic stratification of Modern Hebrew
AU - Mor, Uri
N1 - Funding Information:
An earlier version of this paper was presented in July 2016 at the Language Contact, Continuity and Change in the Emergence of Modern Hebrew conference at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. I thank Edit Doron, Roey J. Gafter, and Ivy Sichel for their generous advice and encouragement, and also the three anonymous reviewers for their comments.
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PY - 2017/1/1
Y1 - 2017/1/1
N2 - Modern Hebrew (MH) presents an interesting case of a national language whose crystallisation involved not only intensive planning, but also unplanned processes of stratification, which have resulted in a continuous reevaluation and reallocation of existing features. The role of nonclassical inherited elements in this progression is revealing, as they emblematise popular ‘authentic’ usage on the one hand and diasporic (i.e. nonnative) premodern being on the other, thus exposing the tension between standard and nonstandard language. This study examines the stylistic status of two such elements, be’im ‘if’ and bixde ‘for’, ‘in order’, in two major phases in the short history of MH, in order to characterise the prescriptive discourse of MH and its national undertones.
AB - Modern Hebrew (MH) presents an interesting case of a national language whose crystallisation involved not only intensive planning, but also unplanned processes of stratification, which have resulted in a continuous reevaluation and reallocation of existing features. The role of nonclassical inherited elements in this progression is revealing, as they emblematise popular ‘authentic’ usage on the one hand and diasporic (i.e. nonnative) premodern being on the other, thus exposing the tension between standard and nonstandard language. This study examines the stylistic status of two such elements, be’im ‘if’ and bixde ‘for’, ‘in order’, in two major phases in the short history of MH, in order to characterise the prescriptive discourse of MH and its national undertones.
KW - Authority
KW - Continuity and change
KW - Genre
KW - Modern Hebrew
KW - National language
KW - Prescriptivism
KW - Stylistic stratification
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U2 - 10.1558/sols.31884
DO - 10.1558/sols.31884
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85027552172
SN - 1750-8649
VL - 11
SP - 1
EP - 20
JO - Sociolinguistic Studies
JF - Sociolinguistic Studies
IS - 1
ER -