Rhetoric Beyond Words
Author | : Mary Carruthers |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 333 |
Release | : 2010-04-08 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0521515300 |
This book analyses collaborative activities across the visual arts to show the power of non-verbal rhetoric in the Middle Ages.
Variation and Reconstruction
Author | : Thomas D. Cravens |
Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages | : 233 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 902724782X |
The relation of language variation to reconstructed languages and to the methodology of reconstruction has long been neglected. In this volume, the relationship between language and variation is considered from a number of different angles, looking at evidence from various language families. In doing so, the papers in this volume address a number of interconnected issues which are of current concern in comparative and historical linguistics.
Germanic Standardizations
Author | : Ana Deumert |
Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages | : 488 |
Release | : 2003-10-27 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9027296308 |
This volume presents a comparative, socio-historical study of the Germanic standard languages (Afrikaans, Danish, Dutch, English, Faroese, Frisian, German, Icelandic, Low German, Luxemburgish, Norwegian, Scots, Swedish, Yiddish as well as the Caribbean and Pacific Creole languages). Each of the 16 orginal chapters systematically discusses central aspects of the standardization process, including dialect selection, codification, elaboration and diffusion of the standard norm across the speech community, as well as incipient processes of de-standardization and re-standardization. The strongly comparative orientation of the contributions allow for the identification of broad similarities as well as intriguing differences across a wide range of historically and socially diverse language histories. Two chapters by the editors provide an overview of the theoretical background and rationale of comparative standardization research, and outline directions for further research in the area. The volume will be of interest to language historians as well as sociolinguists in general.
The Languages and Linguistics of South Asia
Author | : Hans Henrich Hock |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 964 |
Release | : 2016-05-24 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 3110423383 |
With nearly a quarter of the world’s population, members of at least five major language families plus several putative language isolates, South Asia is a fascinating arena for linguistic investigations, whether comparative-historical linguistics, studies of language contact and multilingualism, or general linguistic theory. This volume provides a state-of-the-art survey of linguistic research on the languages of South Asia, with contributions by well-known experts. Focus is both on what has been accomplished so far and on what remains unresolved or controversial and hence offers challenges for future research. In addition to covering the languages, their histories, and their genetic classification, as well as phonetics/phonology, morphology, syntax, and sociolinguistics, the volume provides special coverage of contact and convergence, indigenous South Asian grammatical traditions, applications of modern technology to South Asian languages, and South Asian writing systems. An appendix offers a classified listing of major sources and resources, both digital/online and printed.
Java in the 14th Century: A Study in Cultural History
Author | : Theodore G.Th. Pigeaud |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 487 |
Release | : 2013-06-29 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9401187789 |
Professor Krom's Nagara-Kert:a.gam.a edilllion of 1919 contained several lists and indexes to show the way through the maze of unfamiliar names of persons and places mentioned in the text. In con cordance with the broadened scope of the present book the old lists have been brought up to date and some new ones have been added. It i•s hoped that they will prove to be of some use to readers who, though not being expert in rebus Jooanicis, still would take cognizance of history and development of culture in one of the most interesting islands of ·the Indian Archipelago. The alphalbetical index of subjects treated in volumes II and IV of the present book is specially recom mended to their attention. The Javanese glossary is to and general index which aJn addition the present book not found in previous edition:s, covers in the first place aU Nagara-Kertagama words and names wha:tsoever, and further many words and n:ames of other texts. In combination with the English a!lphalbetical index of subjects the Javanese glossary is to be used as a general index of contents of volwnes I-V and, up to a certain point, as a substitute for the encyclopaedia of things Javanese that is lacking.
Pratidanam: Indian, Iranian, and Indo-European studies presented to Franciscus Bernardus Jacobus Kuiper on his sixtieth birthday
Author | : J. C. Heesterman |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 660 |
Release | : 2021-03-22 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 3112415302 |
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Selected Studies of Jan Gonda, Volume 4 History of Ancient Indian Religion
Author | : Gonda |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 550 |
Release | : 2023-07-17 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9004645047 |