Life and Death Expressions in Hebrew Through Time

Hava Bat-Zeev Shyldkrot; Einat Kuzai

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Life and Death Expressions in Hebrew Through Time

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This paper deals with expressions of life and death in Hebrew and their development from biblical to contemporary usage. Based on several corpora, it is shown that these expressions tend to acquire a great number of meanings, evoking several situations or events, e.g., momentary urges, affection, and significant activities. Even though some of those senses appear as early as Biblical Hebrew, the most considerable changes took place in Modern Hebrew, and nowadays they seem to be very frequent expressions of speech. A diachronic analysis illustrates that death-related expressions are more prone to change compared to life-related ones, constituting a more varied class in present-day Hebrew. Additionally, these expressions, which were first associated with negative situations, have extended their meaning and now refer to various kinds of situations.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Developing Language and Literacy
Subtitle of host publication	Studies in Honor of Dorit Diskin Ravid
Editors	Ronit Levie, Amalia Bar-On, Orit Ashkenazi, Elitzur Dattner, Gilad Brandes
Place of Publication	Cham
Publisher	Springer
Pages	703-720
Number of pages	18
ISBN (Electronic)	9783030998912
ISBN (Print)	9783030998905
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-99891-2_29
State	Published - 2022

Publication series

Name	Literacy Studies
Volume	23
ISSN (Print)	2214-000X
ISSN (Electronic)	2214-0018

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Life and Death Expressions in Hebrew Through Time. / Bat-Zeev Shyldkrot, Hava; Kuzai, Einat.
Developing Language and Literacy: Studies in Honor of Dorit Diskin Ravid. ed. / Ronit Levie; Amalia Bar-On; Orit Ashkenazi; Elitzur Dattner; Gilad Brandes. Cham: Springer, 2022. p. 703-720 (Literacy Studies; Vol. 23).

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