Year: 2023
Type: article
Abstract: Throughout history, the everyday speech of Jews has typically differed from the speech of non-Jews in their shared locales.Jewish diaspora languages are not detached from the languages around them but are part of the surrounding spectra of varieties.The differences may be seen in terms of a continuum-ranging from entirely distinct Jewish languages (e.g., Yiddish spoken in Lithuanian surroundings; Judezmo spoken in Turkish surroundings) to Jewish ethnolects of the dominant language of the general population (e.g., Vienna Jewish German of the 1920s-1930s; Jewish Dutch of the early 20th century); these Jewish ethnolects, in turn, can range from being significantly different to almost identical to the locally dominant language.Over the years, significant fields of linguistic scholarship have developed that focus on individual Jewish languages, Jewish ethnolects, Jewish interlinguistics, and Jewish internal and external bi-/multilingualism.In any situation of contact among diverse language varieties, people occasionally imitate the speech of other groups.In literature, stage plays, film, and popular culture around the world, we find many instances of non-Jews imitating Jewish speech.Sometimes these imitations are antisemitic in nature, while others are more ethnographic or neutral.There has been sporadic scholarship on non-Jewish imitation of Jewish speech across a span of time, geography,
Source: Journal of Jewish Languages
Language: English
Subfield: Linguistics and Language
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W4388860223