Soviet Yiddish : language planning and linguistic development

Gennady Estraikh

This is the first comprehensive study of Yiddish in the former Soviet Union. A chronicle of orthographic and other reforms from the state of the language in pre-Revolutionary Russia, through active language-planning in the 1920s and 1930s, repression, and subsequent developments up to the 1980sis recreated from contemporary publications and archival materials. Later chapters draw on the author's own experience as a Yiddish writer and lexicographer in Moscow. At a time when the Bolshevik party's Jewish sections held an influential position, Yiddish attained a functional diversity without precedent in its history; but underlying contradictions between ideas expressed in the slogans 'Proletarians of all countries, unite!' and 'The right of nations to self-determination' led to extremes in language-planning. A golden mean was achieved after the 1934 Yiddish language conference in Kiev. Using contemporary literary works as a source of linguistic and sociolinguistic information, Gennady Estraikh charts the development of the resultant variety of the language, 'Soviet Yiddish'; the effects of severe repression in the late 1930s and 1940s; and the subsequent decline in usage. Comparisons are drawn between Soviet Yiddish language-planning and concurrent reforms in Russian, Ukrainian, Belorussian, and German; and the features and types of Soviet Yiddish word-formation are analysed, notably univerbation, or compressing a phrase into one word.

「Nielsen BookData」より

[目次]

  • 1. Yiddish in late Imperial Russia
  • 2. Yiddish proletarian language
  • 3. Language-planning of the 1930s
  • 4. Soviet Yiddish in the 1940s80s
  • 5. Soviet Yiddish orthography
  • 6. Soviet Yiddish word-formation
  • Conclusion
  • Bibliography
  • Index of Yiddish lexical items
  • Index of names and subjects

「Nielsen BookData」より

この本の情報

書名 Soviet Yiddish : language planning and linguistic development
著作者等 Ėstraĭkh, G.
Estraikh Gennady
書名別名 Origin and features of Soviet Yiddish
シリーズ名 Oxford modern languages and literature monographs
出版元 Clarendon Press
刊行年月 1999
ページ数 viii, 217 p.
大きさ 23 cm
ISBN 0198184794
NCID BA43917010
※クリックでCiNii Booksを表示
言語 英語
出版国 イギリス
この本を: 
このエントリーをはてなブックマークに追加

このページを印刷

外部サイトで検索

この本と繋がる本を検索

ウィキペディアから連想