Publications

Publication details [#48854]

Tannenbaum, Michal and Hannah Esther Ofner. 2008. 'Tell Me What You Speak and I'll Tell You …': Exploring Attitudes to Languages in the Ultra-Orthodox Community in Israel. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development 29 (6) : 499–517.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

emotion | language attitude | language status | religion

Language as a subject

English | Hebrew | Yiddish

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Journal WWW

www.multilingual-matters.com/multi/onlinej.asp

Annotation

This study examines how the Haredi or ultra-Orthodox Israëli Jews perceive of Hebrew, Yiddish and English in terms of usage, related emotions, significance, and holiness.