Aus unseren Neuerwerbungen – Sprachen und Kulturen Asiens, Afrikas und Ozeaniens 2021.6

Prag­mat­ic par­ti­cles: find­ings from Asian lan­guages
Prag­mat­ic Par­ti­cles sheds new light on the lin­guis­tic the­o­ry and appli­ca­tion of Asian lan­guages with a par­tic­u­lar focus on the role of par­ti­cles and their socio-prag­mat­ic nature. Draw­ing on a range of data that spans Hin­di, Japan­ese, Kore­an, Mon­go­lian, Turk­ish and beyond, the mul­ti­di­men­sion­al­i­ty of Asian lan­guages is brought to atten­tion. Par­ti­cles are cen­tral in this dis­course and their con­struc­tive, expres­sive and atti­tu­di­nal behav­iours are revealed to be nei­ther arbi­trary nor periph­er­al. By branch­ing away from a pre­dom­i­nant­ly Euro-cen­tric dis­cus­sion and cov­er­ing the rel­e­vant for­mal and func­tion­al foun­da­tions of syn­tax and seman­tics, this book offers an alter­na­tive lens to the appro­pri­ate treat­ment of Asian lan­guages in con­tem­po­rary lin­guis­tics.
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The City in Ara­bic Lit­er­a­ture: clas­si­cal and mod­ern per­spec­tives
The theme and motif of the city has had an endur­ing pres­ence in the Ara­bic-Islam­ic tra­di­tion, from the clas­si­cal and post-clas­si­cal lit­er­ary cor­pus to mod­ern and post-colo­nial Ara­bic poet­ry and prose. Cities such as Mec­ca, Bagh­dad, Cairo, Dam­as­cus, Beirut, Qayrawan, Mar­rakesh and Cor­do­ba have served as vir­tu­al (battle)grounds for some of the Arab world’s most com­plex intel­lec­tu­al, socio­cul­tur­al, and polit­i­cal issues. The Arab city has been trans­formed from a mere phys­i­cal struc­ture and tex­tu­al space into an (auto)biographical, nov­el­is­tic, and poet­ic arena—often trou­bled and contested—for debat­ing the encounter, com­pe­ti­tion and con­flict between the rur­al and the urban, the tra­di­tion­al and the mod­ern, the med­i­ta­tive and the satir­ic, the indi­vid­ual and the com­mu­nal, and the Self and Other(s).
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