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Publication details [#56679]

Avni, Sharon. 2012. Translation as a site of language policy negotiation in Jewish day school education. Current Issues in Language Planning 13 (2) : 69–71.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
Routledge

Annotation

This ethnographic analysis explores how teachers and students at a non-Orthodox Jewish New York day school, negotiate translation choices from sacred Hebrew into vernacular English, during study and prayer related activities, within an institutionalized language policy setting with a preference for the use of Hebrew.