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On the Investigation of 1920s Vienna Jewish Speech: Ideology and Linguistics

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Neil G. Jacobs
Neil G. Jacobs
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The Ohio State UniversityDepartment of Germanic Languages and Literatures314 Cunz HallColumbus, OH 43120–1229 [njacobs@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu]
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This paper aims to establish a framework for the investigation of Vienna Jewish speech (VJS)—the German spoken natively by Jews in Vienna during the 1920s and 1930s. The role of the ideological approach or perspective in the investigation of Jewish ethnolects of German (JG) is discussed at length. It is argued that the investigation of VJS—and of JG generally—must recognize the context of Yiddish linguistics in the broader sense. The paper also considers possible Jewish varieties of German that may have served as models for VJS. Consideration of VJS sheds light on the general linguistic discussion of borrowing vs. language shift.

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Journal of Germanic Linguistics , Volume 8 , Issue 2 , Fall 1996 , pp. 177 - 217
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Copyright © Society for Germanic Linguistics 1996

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