Language, identity and social division: the case of Israel

Part 1 The social fabric of languages: language in society culture and social systems social divisions and language the market of languages. Part 2 Language and integration: language revival, integration and elitism the shift to Hebrew imposing without coercing. Part 3 The languages of social cleavages: Israel's social cleavages the quantitative dimension languages and stratification languages and ethnicity the languages of the religious cleavages the case of a national minority. Part 4 The social market of languages: English in society the social transformation of French Yiddish in Israel the diffusion of Arabic. Part 5 Theoretical perspectives: identity, boundaries and language towards a theoretical approach. Appendices: social factors of the knowledge of languages the non-Hebrew Israeli press.