HU Credits:
1
Degree/Cycle:
2nd degree (Master)
Responsible Department:
Hebrew Language
Semester:
2nd Semester
Teaching Languages:
Hebrew
Campus:
Mt. Scopus
Course/Module Coordinator:
Dr. Gabriel Birnbaum
Coordinator Office Hours:
On request
Teaching Staff:
Dr. Gabriel Birnbaum
Course/Module description:
The course will deal with the theoretical and practical aspects of normative Hebrew.
Theoretical aspect -
* What is normativism and what are its motives?
* The crystallization of the norm in modern Hebrew. What are the principles that operated according to the language prescriptivists? Were they aware of the principles?
* The different approaches: purism, permissiveness, and intermediate approaches.
* The works of the prescriptivists such as Epstein, Klausner, Avineri, Peretz, Bendavid, Ben-Haim, Goshen-Gotttstein.
* Work of the Language Committee and the Hebrew Language Academy.
Registers and sociolects.
The practical aspect -
Word order; The relative clause; Attitude towards influence of foreign languages, loan translations in particular; Pronunciation and morphology; Punctuation; Spelling
Course/Module aims:
Learning outcomes - On successful completion of this module, students should be able to:
Distinguish between the different approaches to normativism
* Avoid automatic corrections as much as possible
* Employ a balanced judgment in editing and correcting texts
Attendance requirements(%):
Teaching arrangement and method of instruction:
Frontal teaching; Encouragement of students to participate in discussions; Doing and checking home assignments
Course/Module Content:
See: Course/Module description
Required Reading:
י' אבינרי, יד הלשון, תל אביב תשכ"ה.
ג' בירנבאום, "מקומה של הכוונת לשון בימינו", א' שורצולד ואחרים (עורכים), ספר רפאל ניר, ירושלים תש"ס, עמ' 349-334.
ח' בלנק, לשון בני אדם, ירושלים תשמ"ט.
א' בנדויד, מדריך לשון לרדיו ולטלוויזיה, ירושלים תשל"ד.
א' בנדויד, "לתקנת לשון העיתונים", לשוננו לעם טז (תשכ"ה) - נדפס כנספח למהדורה החדשה של ספרו "מדריך לשון...".
ז' בן-חיים, "לשון עתיקה במציאות חדשה", לשוננו לעם ד (תשי"ג).
ר' סיוון, לקסיקון לשיפור הלשון, תל אביב תש"ן3.
י' פרץ, עברית כהלכה, תל אביב תשכ"ב.
ח' רוזן, "על סטנדרד ונורמה, על תהליכים ושגיאות", לשוננו לעם ד (תשי"ג).
ח' רוזן, "תהליכי לשון", לשוננו לעם ג (תשי"ב).
Additional Reading Material:
Course/Module evaluation:
End of year written/oral examination 70 %
Presentation 0 %
Participation in Tutorials 0 %
Project work 0 %
Assignments 30 %
Reports 0 %
Research project 0 %
Quizzes 0 %
Other 0 %
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