Academy of the Hebrew Language
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Headquarters of the Academy of the Hebrew Language
The Academy of the Hebrew Language (הָאָקָדֶמְיָה לַלָּשׁוֹן הָעִבְרִית, Ha-akademya la-lashon ha-ʻIvrit) was established by the Israeli Government in 1953 as the "supreme institution for scholarship on the Hebrew language". It replaced the Hebrew Language Committee (Vaʻad ha-lashon ha-ʻIvrit), which was established in 1890. The Academy is responsible for creating new Hebrew words to keep up with today's rapidly changing society. In addition, the Academy regulates spelling, grammar and vocabulary for government publications and the educational system. Somewhat ironically, perhaps, although the organisation's tasks include creating new words from Hebrew roots and structures to replace loanwords derived from other languages, its own name is a loanword, "akademya"[1].
Zuckermann's 2008 article "Realistic Prescriptivism" "provides a critical analysis of the Academy's mission, as intriguingly defined in its constitution: 'to direct the development of Hebrew in the light of its nature'". It argues that the Academy "has begun submitting to the 'real world', accommodating its decrees to the parole of native Israeli speakers, long regarded as 'reckless' and 'lazy'."[2]
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- ^ See [1] for an explanation (Hebrew).
- ^ See p. 135 of 'Realistic Prescriptivism': The Academy of the Hebrew Language, its Campaign of 'Good Grammar' and Lexpionage, and the Native Israeli Speakers,Israel Studies in Language and Society 1.1 (2008), pp. 135-154, by Ghil'ad Zuckermann.
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