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Direct linkStamp, Rose; Jaraisy, Marah – Sign Language Studies, 2021
We investigate the contact situation between Israeli Sign Language (ISL) and Kufr Qassem Sign Language (KQSL) in a bilingual deaf community in Israel. We examine one outcome of language contact, known as reiteration--when two semantically equivalent lexical items from two different languages are produced sequentially. Until now, reiteration has…
Descriptors: Sign Language, Bilingualism, Foreign Countries, Deafness
Laufer, Batia; McLean, Stuart – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2016
The article investigated how the inclusion of loanwords in vocabulary size tests affected the test scores of two L1 groups of EFL learners: Hebrew and Japanese. New BNC- and COCA-based vocabulary size tests were constructed in three modalities: word form recall, word form recognition, and word meaning recall. Depending on the test modality, the…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Semitic Languages, Linguistic Borrowing, Second Language Learning
Facchinetti, Roberta, Ed.; Crystal, David, Ed.; Seidlhofer, Barbara, Ed. – Peter Lang Bern, 2010
All languages encode aspects of culture and every culture has its own specificities to be proud of and to be transmitted. The papers in this book explore aspects of this relationship between language and culture, considering issues related to the processes of internationalization and localization of the English language. The volume is divided into…
Descriptors: Group Membership, English, Jews, Foreign Countries
Peer reviewedKatriel, Tamar – Research on Language and Social Interaction, 1993
Reflects upon the contextual issues associated with the adoption and spread of the term "lefargen" as part of Israeli social semantics. The data consist of reports of linguistic usage encountered in natural settings, press reports, or the more formal setting of interviews. Findings are compared with similar cultural idioms in other…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Cultural Influences, Foreign Countries, Idioms
Peer reviewedFishman, J. A.; Kressel, R. H. – Linguistics, 1974
Investigators studied two German settlements in Israel to examine the interaction of the German and Hebrew languages. A heterogeneous community used loanwords to a greater extent than the homogeneous, and German was perpetuated less successfully. (CK)
Descriptors: Bilingualism, German, Hebrew, Immigrants
Peer reviewedSchwarzwald, Ora – Language Problems and Language Planning, 1988
A study of Hebrew poems for children revealed elements of the historical and sociolinguistic dilemmas encountered in the revival of spoken Hebrew, including conflicts concerning usage and change. (MSE)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Childrens Literature, Diachronic Linguistics, Foreign Countries
