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Usage-Based Studies in Modern Hebrew: Background, Morpho-lexicon, and Syntax
Edited by Ruth A. Berman
[Studies in Language Companion Series 210] 2020
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Chapter 5
Prescriptive activity in Modern Hebrew

| Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
This chapter surveys prescriptive activity and discourse in Modern Hebrew from historical and sociolinguistic perspectives. The first prescriptive efforts in the pre-Mandate period (up to 1918) were part of an intensive language planning process aimed at creating a uniform functional national language based on classical Hebrew sources. After the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948, the nationalistic tone of public discourse in Israel increased, and with it prescriptive activity, up until the 1970s. At a very early stage in the formation of the speech community, even prior to World War 1, two types of ideal (hegemonic) Hebrew began to emerge: institutional (planned), reflecting a nationalistic and puristic stance grounded in the Jewish past, and native (unplanned), reflecting a contrasting anti-institutional stance. Both types are still active in contemporary public discourse in Israel, and together constitute a complex approach to prescriptivism and the concept of correct language.
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
    • 1.1Prescription, norms, and standards
    • 1.2Prescriptive discourse
    • 1.3Prescriptivism, ideology, and nationality
    • 1.4Attitudes towards prescriptivism
  • 2.Prescriptive activity in Modern Hebrew
    • 2.1The pre-state period (1889–1948)
      • 2.1.1Initiatory attempts
      • 2.1.2Nationalistic underpinnings
      • 2.1.3Conflicts and divergence
    • 2.2Prescriptivism in Israel since 1948
      • 2.2.1The rise in nationalism and prescriptivism
      • 2.2.2Institutionalization and expansion
      • 2.2.3Changing values
  • 3.Some illustrations
    • 3.1Pronunciation
    • 3.2Grammatical structure
    • 3.3Lexicon
  • 4.Concluding notes
  • Notes
  • References
Published online: 18 March 2020
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2022. Developmental Pathways in Child and Adult Hebrew: The Case of the Subordinator še-. In Developing Language and Literacy [Literacy Studies, 23], ► pp. 3 ff. DOI logo
Gafter, Roey J.
2020. Stylistic variation in Hebrew reading tasks. Language Ecology 4:1 ► pp. 39 ff. DOI logo

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