The Routledge handbook of Arabic and identityThe Routledge Handbook of Arabic and Identity offers a comprehensive and up-to-date account of studies that relate the Arabic language in its entirety to identity. This handbook offers new trajectories in understanding language and … Weiterlesen
The Semantics of Qurʾanic Language: al-ĀḫiraIn The Semantics of Qurʾanic Language: al-Āḫira, Ghassan el Masri offers a semantic study of the concept al-āḫira ‘the End’ in the Qurʾān. The study is prefaced with a detailed account of the late antique … Weiterlesen
Die SOAS (School of Oriental and African Studies) in London stellt eine Auswahl ihrer digitalen Sammlung online zur Verfügung: Its digital collections include archives and manuscripts, photographs, maps, books and journals, newspapers, oral histories, films and audio. Nearly all are available freely, twenty-four … Weiterlesen
From Sibawayhi to ‚Ahmad Hasan al-Zayyat: New angles on the Arabic linguistic traditionFrom Sibawayhi to ?A?mad ?asan al-Zayyat: New Angles on the Arabic Linguistic Tradition, a volume edited by Beata Sheyhatovitch and Almog Kasher, brings together nine articles written by … Weiterlesen
The Routledge handbook of Arabic sociolinguisticsThe Routledge Handbook of Arabic Sociolinguistics comprises 22 chapters encompassing various aspects in the study of Arabic dialects within their sociolinguistic context.This is a novel volume, which not only includes the traditional topics in variationist … Weiterlesen
Henrike Rudolph, Sinologin an der Uni Erlangen-Nürnberg, teilt in ihrem Blog Forschungsergebnisse und ‑erlebnisse. Damit möchte sie auch auf die Arbeit anderer ForscherInnen aufmerksam machen. Dabei spiegelt der Blog meine Forschungsinteressen wider, die geprägt wurden durch mein Sinologie- und Politikstudium … Weiterlesen
The Cambridge handbook of African linguisticsThis book provides an in-depth and comprehensive state-of-the-art study of ‚African languages‘ and ‚language in Africa‘ since its beginnings as a ‚colonial science‘ at the turn of the twentieth century in Europe. Compiled by 56 … Weiterlesen
Der Thesaurus Linguae Sericae (TLS) ist eine „Historical and Comparative Encyclopaedia of Chinese Conceptual Schemes“, also ein Wörterbuch des klassischen Chinesisch, das den chinesischen Wortschatz systematisch in taxonomischen und mereonomischen Hierarchien organisiert. TLS explores the conceptual schemes of pre-Buddhist Chinese … Weiterlesen
Cognitive Linguistics and the Study of Chinese Bringing together contributions from a group of prominent researchers, within a cognitive-linguistic framework, this volume sheds light on linguistic structures and usages characteristic of the Chinese language, including noun-verb inclusion, the conceptual spatialization … Weiterlesen
The Development of Tropes in Arabic Wine Poetry Up to the 12th Century Ad This book explores the theory of the evolution of poetic imagery as developed by Joseph Sadan, showing how metaphors were taken over by one poet from … Weiterlesen
The Sinitic languages: a contribution to sinological linguisticsThe Sinitic Languages is the quintessence of Mieczyslaw Jerzy Künstler’s thirty years of research into the Chinese languages. Originally published in Polish in 2000 as Jezyki chinskie, this work collected Künstler’s various lectures … Weiterlesen
Female sexuality in the early medieval Islamic world: gender and sex in Arabic literatureIn the early Islamic world, Arabic erotic compendia and sex manuals were a popular literary genre. Although primarily written by male authors, the erotic publications from this … Weiterlesen
Arabic Dialectology: Methodology and Field ResearchObviously, many books and handbooks are used to prepare for linguistic fieldwork. However, these do not describe the specific intricacies of fieldwork within Semitic dialectology and the regions of its concern, especially the Middle East … Weiterlesen
Language as bodily practice in early China: a Chinese grammatologyJane Geaney argues that early Chinese conceptions of speech and naming cannot be properly understood if viewed through the dominant Western philosophical tradition in which language is framed through dualisms that … Weiterlesen
Die Entwicklung eines Computer-Fonts ist für Schriftsysteme wie das Chinesische weit aufwendiger als z.B. für Systeme, die auf dem lateinischen Alphabet basieren.Der Journalist und Programmierer Nikhil Sonnad gibt in einem Blogpost einen interessanten Einblick:“Most people think fonts appear out of … Weiterlesen