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
Arabic Corpus LinguisticsThis book demonstrates the advantage of a corpus based approach to Arabic, and presents an overview of current research on the Arabic language within corpus linguistics. Dealing not only with modern standard Arabic, the book also considers classical … Weiterlesen
Computational Linguistics, Speech and Image Processing for Arabic LanguageThis book encompasses a collection of topics covering recent advances that are important to the Arabic language in areas of natural language processing, speech and image analysis. This book presents state-of-the-art reviews … Weiterlesen
Modern Arabic literature: a theoretical frameworkThe study of Arabic literature is blossoming. This book provides a comprehensive theoretical framework to help research this highly prolific and diverse production of contemporary literary texts. Based on the achievements of historical poetics, in … Weiterlesen