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Benor, Sarah Bunin.

Second style acquisition: The linguistic socialization of newly Orthodox Jews.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Second style acquisition: The linguistic socialization of newly Orthodox Jews.
Author:	Benor, Sarah Bunin.
Description:	298 p.
Notes:	Adviser: Penelope Eckert.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 65-09, Section: A, page: 3356.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International65-09A.
Subject:	Language, Linguistics.
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3145467
ISBN:	0496043706

Second style acquisition: The linguistic socialization of newly Orthodox Jews.
Benor, Sarah Bunin.

Second style acquisition: The linguistic socialization of newly Orthodox Jews. - 298 p.

Adviser: Penelope Eckert.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Stanford University, 2004.

All BTs acquire at least some of these features, and some change the way they speak so much that they can, at times, pass as FFB. I discuss the factors that affect which features are more likely acquired and which speakers are more likely to acquire them: salience (based on community discourses, imitations, and a matched guise test), individual ability, language ideology, and social alignment and distinction. Using Lave and Wenger's (1991) model of learning as legitimate peripheral participation, I show how BTs go through stages of social and cultural integration, gradually gaining increased access to roles and styles within the Orthodox community. They are assisted in their integration by interactions of linguistic socialization. And they express their liminality---between their former non-Orthodox selves and the FFB status that they can never attain---through distinctive combinations of symbolic practices.

ISBN: 0496043706Subjects--Topical Terms:

212724
Language, Linguistics.

Second style acquisition: The linguistic socialization of newly Orthodox Jews.
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520 # $a Orthodox Jewish identity is constructed and maintained partly through distinctive aspects of dress, home decoration, food, music, and language. Speakers use English with thousands of loanwords from Hebrew and Yiddish. They exhibit syntactic and semantic transfer from Yiddish, as in "He wanted that everybody should be there" and "She was by me ('at my house') for Shabbos ('Sabbath')." And they use many other distinctive features, including final devoicing (e.g., going => goingk), a click discourse marker, and distinctive rise-fall intonation contours.
520 # $a The analysis is based on a year of ethnographic and sociolinguistic fieldwork in a strictly Orthodox community in Philadelphia. Jews who choose to become Orthodox are called ba'alei teshuva (BTs), as opposed to those who are "frum 'religious' from birth" (FFBs). Through observations, interviews, analysis of recorded and observed speech, and a speech perception experiment, I show how the acquisition of language and other symbolic practices helps BTs to integrate into the Orthodox community.
520 # $a When people join a new community, change is central to their integration process. Newcomers may change how they dress, how they spend their leisure time, or how they talk. How do they learn and adopt the styles of their new community? This dissertation explores the social processes surrounding second style acquisition, focusing on linguistic style.
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