Bernard Spolsky †

Spolsky, Bernard † 2020 Linguistic landscape: The semiotics of public signage Linguistic Landscape 6:1, pp. 2–15 | Article

The paper starts with signs that Cooper and I found in the Old City of Jerusalem. It describes how the term Linguistic Landscape was applied to the recollections of francophone high school students of the signs they had seen. It traces the many collections of photos employing digital cameras and… read more

Spolsky, Bernard † 2019 Constanze Weth and Kasper Juffermans (Eds.). (2018). The Tyranny of Writing: Ideologies of the Written Word Linguistic Landscape 5:1, pp. 107–110 | Review

Spolsky, Bernard † 2016 Jewish language varieties: Loss and survival Endangered Languages and Languages in Danger: Issues of documentation, policy, and language rights, Filipović, Luna and Martin Pütz (eds.), pp. 387–409 | Article

Created in the special circumstances of diaspora isolation, persecution, and regular migration, Jewish language varieties that survived the Holocaust have proved, with the exception of Hasidic Yiddish, to be fragile and are becoming extinct as spoken vernaculars. Emancipation, especially when… read more

Spolsky, Bernard † 2008 Language policy: The first half-century Unity and Diversity of Languages, Sterkenburg, Piet van (ed.), pp. 137–153 | Article

Omoniyi, Tope, Joshua A. Fishman † and Bernard Spolsky † 2006 1. Introduction Explorations in the Sociology of Language and Religion, Omoniyi, Tope and Joshua A. Fishman † (eds.), pp. 1–9 | Chapter

Spolsky, Bernard † 2002 Norms, native speakers and reversing language shift Pedagogical Norms for Second and Foreign Language Learning and Teaching: Studies in honour of Albert Valdman, Gass, Susan M., Kathleen Bardovi-Harlig, Sally Magnan Pierce and Joel Walz (eds.), pp. 41–58 | Article

Spolsky, Bernard † and Elana Shohamy 2000 Language Practice, Language Ideology, and Language Policy Language Policy and Pedagogy: Essays in honor of A. Ronald Walton, Lambert, Richard D. and Elana Shohamy (eds.), pp. 1 ff. | Article

Spolsky, Bernard † and Elana Shohamy 1997 Planning Foreign-Language Education: An Israeli Perspective Perspectives on Foreign Language Policy: Studies in honor of Theo van Els, Bongaerts, Theo and Kees de Bot (eds.), pp. 99 ff. | Article

Spolsky, Bernard † 1986 Avoiding the tyranny of the written word: The development of the mediated mode of Jewish literacy Literacy, pp. 23–37 | Article

A study of literacy as a social rather than as a personal phenomenon reveals new aspects of its complexity. Looking in particular at Jewish literacy, a distinction is proposed between unmediated and mediated literacy, the latter referring to modes of literacy that continue to require extensive… read more

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