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Spolsky, Bernard was born on February 11, 1932 in Wellington, New Zealand. Son of Choony Aby and Ellen Kate (Green) Spolsky.
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The Old City of Jerusalem, small and densely populated, is a complex microcosm of Israeli society. It is a multilingual community characterized by unequal power relations between the speakers of the two official languages of Israel--Arabs and Jews. The authors begin with a sociolinguistic sketch of the Old City in the present day. They then provide a historical background to their field study, discussing Jewish multilingualism from the period of the Second Temple until modern times, the sociolinguistics of revival and spread of Hebrew. They go on to develop a model of the rules of language choice which arises from their social context. The authors demonstrate that, because of the close association between language use and social structure, the study of language use in a multilingual society is at the same time both powerful and delicate method of studying the dynamics of group interactions.
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Sociolinguistics is the study of the different ways in which various groups of people use language. This book provides a brief yet comprehensive introduction to the field. It explores how sociolinguistics is linked to other disciplines such as history, politics and gender studies.
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The volume brings together leading experts from a range of disciplines to create a broad perspective on the study of style and variation in spoken language. The book discusses key approaches to stylistic variation, including such issues as attention paid to speech, audience design, identity construction, the corpus study of register, genre, distinctiveness and the anthropological study of style. Rigorous and engaging, this book will become the standard work on stylistic variation. It will be welcomed by students and academics in sociolinguistics, English language, dialectology, anthropology and sociology.
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linguistics educator university dean
Spolsky, Bernard was born on February 11, 1932 in Wellington, New Zealand. Son of Choony Aby and Ellen Kate (Green) Spolsky.
Bachelor, University New Zealand, Wellington, 1951. Master of Arts with honours, University New Zealand, Wellington, 1952. Doctor of Philosophy, University Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 1966.
Assistant master, Gisbourne (New Zealand) H.S., 1954-1955; assistant master, Caulfield Grammar School, Melbourne, Australia, 1956; assistant master, Royal Russell School, Croydon, England, 1957-1958; instructor language, Hebrew U., Jerusalem, 1958-1961; Lady Davis professor, Hebrew U., Jerusalem, 1979; assistant professor, McGill University, Montreal, 1961-1964; assistant professor, Indiana U., Bloomington, 1964-1968; professor, dean, U. New Mexico, Albuquerque, 1968-1980; Professor of English, dean, Bar-Ilan U., Ramat-Gan, Israel, since 1980.
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With Israel Army, 1959-1960. Member American Association Applied Linguistics (secretary 1977-1980), International Language Testing Association (president 1994-1995), Teachers English to Speakers Other Languages (president 1979-1980).
Married Ellen L. Schaps, December 23, 1962. Children: Joel, Ruth.