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
Current studies in Chinese language and discourse: Global context and diverse perspectivesThis volume features a discourse empirical orientation from diverse perspectives and various methodologies, in which narratives, interviews, surveys, and large-scale databases or self-created written and spoken corpora are employed … Weiterlesen
Mouse vs. cat in Chinese literature: tales and commentaryIn literatures worldwide, animal fables have been analyzed for their revealingly anthropomorphic views, but until now little attention has been given to the animal tales of China. The complex, competitive relationship between … Weiterlesen
Sinography: The Borrowing and Adaptation of the Chinese ScriptIn the more than 3,000 years since its invention, the Chinese script has been adapted many times to write languages other than Chinese, including Korean, Vietnamese, Japanese, and Zhuang. In Sinography: The … Weiterlesen
„The Chinese Rare Book Digital Collection draws from the 5,300 titles of Chinese rare books housed at the Asian Division of the Library of Congress. The initial online presentation includes about 1,000 digitized rare titles, and more will be accessible … Weiterlesen
The Routledge handbook of Chinese discourse analysisChinese is a discourse-oriented language and the underlying mechanisms of the language involve encoding and decoding so the language can be correctly delivered and understood. To date, there has been a lack of consolidation … Weiterlesen
Disliking others: loathing, hostility, and distrust in premodern Ottoman landsRecent historical studies on the Ottoman Empire have taken for granted that subjects of the Ottoman polity flourished under a so-called “Pax Ottomanica.” This edited volume probes the rosy narrative of … Weiterlesen