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urn:uuid:3e455063-abc7-4811-b6c2-de42e35e0c6e 03 15 9781805111849 00 EB E107 10 10 02 26326914 01 02 Semitic Languages and Cultures 01 01 The Standard Language Ideology of the Hebrew and Arabic Grammarians of the ʿAbbasid Period 1 A01 Benjamin Paul Kantor 01 eng 00 232 03 23 Biblical Hebrew Grammar 23 Cambridge Semitic Languages and Cultures 12 CFF 04 PJ4527 10 REL006020 23 Arabic-speaking Jews 12 CFP 10 LAN009010 23 Linguistics 23 Language Ideology 23 ʿAbbasid Period 23 Standard Language Ideology 23 Medieval Hebrew Grammarians 01 06 03 00 <p>As a discipline, the study of Biblical Hebrew grammar began largely among Arabic-speaking Jews of the Middle Ages, particularly in the ʿAbbasid period (750–1258 CE). Indeed, it has long been acknowledged by scholars that the Hebrew grammatical tradition, in many ways, grew up out of and alongside the Arabic grammatical tradition. Many concepts present in Hebrew grammar have their origins in the writings of Arabic grammarians of the ʿAbbasid period. And yet, as recent linguistic and anthropological work has shown, setting down ‘the grammar’ of a language can be as much an ideological or political activity as an academic one.</p><p>In addition to the language itself, speech communities also share beliefs and attitudes about that language—what linguistic anthropologists would term a ‘language ideology’. Language ideology can have a dramatic impact on what forms of the language one regards as acceptable and what sort of rules one imposes on and through their description of the language. Nevertheless, while much work has been done on the interface between Hebrew and Arabic grammar and literature in the Middle Ages, interface of their respective language ideologies has yet to be treated theoretically or systematically.</p><p>In the present book, then, we survey six specific characteristics of a ‘standard language ideology’ that appear in both the writings of the Hebrew grammarians who wrote in Judeo-Arabic and the Arabic grammarians during the ʿAbbasid period. Such striking lines of linguistic-ideological similarity suggest that it may not have been only grammatical concepts or literary genres that the medieval Hebrew grammarians inherited from the Arabic grammatical tradition, but a way of thinking about language as well.</p> 04 00 Acknowledgments 1. Introduction 2. Previous Studies on the Interface between the Medieval Hebrew and Arabic GrammaticalTraditions 3. (Standard) Language Ideology as a Theoretical Framework 4. Defining the Standard Language and Its Corpus 5. The Purpose of the Standard Language and the Grammarians’ Mission 6. Conclusions Works Cited Index Open Book Publishers 01 Open Book Publishers 04 01 20231129 02 WORLD 06 15 9781805111825 06 15 9781805111832 06 15 9781805111849 WORLD 09 Open Book Publishers 20 01