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Language Police" Or Visionary Idealists? Culture And Identity: Case Of Modern Hebrew

This article is dealing with lexical creation of words in the Modern Hebrew language, expressed, among others, by metaphors and phrases influenced by foreign languages. In addition, we will deal with etymological structures of words in Modern Hebrew. These words are characterized by semantic and etymological creativity and innovation. In the article, we will compare theories dealing with language changes in a living language. Are these changes a natural procedure in a living language, and therefore nonexistent (Coseriu, 1983; Parvi, 2015), or is it a process threatening a nation's identity and culture? It is a very important topic because it puts on the agenda the controversy between linguists, including Hebrew language researchers, about the question to what extent can one stop the entry of foreign words into a language, and is it necessary to do so? Is there a middle way, that allows a language's identity to be maintained and not ignore the patters of a living and dynamic language? The research tool will be semistructured questionnaires, observations, documents and in-depth interviews. We will refer to the point of view of purist bodies regarding the lexical creation of borrowed words and their etymology, and on the other hand, we will discuss the views of liberal linguistics, according to which the role of linguists is to observe language and describe it, but not to direct it. The innovation is the attempt to narrow the gap between these two approaches and find, using the aforementioned research, ways of doing so. © 2018 Published by Future Academy www.FutureAcademy.org.UK