ABSTRACT This qualitative study, examining seven communities in the globalized Asia Pacific area, aimed to investigate Jewish community attitudes toward Hebrew, their heritage language (HL), as influenced by the social environment. The main finding was that the “complex ecology” of context influences attitudes to Hebrew. The article delineates three major categories: expatriates in Asia, whose particularistic identity, including Hebrew, was strengthened; citizens, the majority native-born, in Australia and immigrants in New Zealand, whose Jewish identity was weakened. Findings demonstrate the importance of community contact, adding to understanding HL learning and linguistic distance between micro and macro elements in the sociolinguistic context.

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语境对传统语言态度的影响：亚太地区犹太学校的案例研究

摘要 这项定性研究考察了全球化的亚太地区的七个社区，旨在调查受社会环境影响的犹太社区对其传统语言 (HL) 希伯来语的态度。主要发现是语境的“复杂生态”会影响人们对希伯来语的态度。文章描述了三个主要类别：在亚洲的外籍人士，他们的特殊身份，包括希伯来语，得到了加强；公民，大多数是土生土长的澳大利亚人和新西兰的移民，他们的犹太身份被削弱了。研究结果证明了社区接触的重要性，有助于理解 HL 学习以及社会语言环境中微观和宏观元素之间的语言距离。