Approaches to Arabic Linguistics

Approaches to Arabic Linguistics
Author: Everhard Ditters
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 795
Release: 2007
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9004160159

This Liber Amicorum discusses topics on the history of Arabic grammar, Arabic linguistics, and Arabic dialects, domains in which Kees Versteegh plays a leading role.

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Publisher: Odile Jacob
Total Pages: 403
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ISBN: 2738185029

Evangelization as Interreligious Dialogue

Evangelization as Interreligious Dialogue
Author: John C. Cavadini
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages: 283
Release: 2019-08-21
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1532652097

What does Jesus have to do with Buddha? What does Muhammad have to do with Krishna? One of the most important tasks for theology in the twenty-first century is interreligious dialogue. Given the rapid process of globalization and the surge of information via the Internet, travel, and library networking today, interreligious dialogue has become a necessary element within Christian theology that no longer can be avoided. Evangelization as Interreligious Dialogue features eleven essays, plus an extensive introduction, that exercise a live conversation between religious others. Divided into four thematic sections—(1) Catholic approaches to interreligious dialogue, (2) dialogues between Judaism and Christianity, (3) dialogues between Islam and Christianity, and (4) dialogues between Hinduism, Buddhism, and Christianity—this volume conducts a sustained theological reflection on the current state of interreligious dialogue by signaling its hopeful promises and unrelenting challenges. The reader will be invited to encounter the religious other firsthand and put his or her most cherished theological assumptions to the test. This book aims to provoke an expansion of horizons for theological imagination as it exposes the basic dialectic of identity and difference as played out in the interaction between diverse religious beliefs, practices, and experiences.

Arabic Culture

Arabic Culture
Author: M.H. Bakalla
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 407
Release: 2023-05-31
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 100090749X

First published in 1981 and this edition in 1984, Arabic Culture: Through its Language and Literature aims to present a bird’s eye view of its subject. It is intended for non-specialist student of Arabic, especially those who have not yet mastered the language and are therefore not able to read about Arabic literature in its original sources. It covers the linguistic origins of Arabic dialects and history and includes chapters on Arab linguistic scholarship and the development of the Arabic script. It also deals with all aspects of Arabic literature, from pre-Islamic poetry to major Arab literary figures, from the Arabian Nights to modern Arab Poetesses, from proverbs to literary criticism.

Kitāb Sībawayhi: Syntax and Pragmatics

Kitāb Sībawayhi: Syntax and Pragmatics
Author: Amal Marogy
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2017-07-03
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9047440528

This book presents a comprehensive portrait of the Kitāb Sībawayhi. It offers new insights into its historical and linguistic arguments and underlines their strong correlation. The decisive historical argument highlights al-Ḥīra’s role, not only as the centre of pre-Islamic Arabic culture, but also as the matrix within which early Arab linguistics grew and developed. The Kitāb’s value as a communicative grammar forms the crux of the linguistic argument. The complementarity of syntax and pragmatics is established as a condition sine qua non for Sībawayhi’s analysis of language. The benefits of a complementary approach are reflected in the analysis of nominal sentences and related notions of ibtidā’ and definiteness. The pragmatic principle of identifiability is uncovered as the ultimate determiner of word order.

Tradition and Innovation

Tradition and Innovation
Author: Lutz Edzard
Publisher: Otto Harrassowitz Verlag
Total Pages: 212
Release: 1999
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 9783447041850

Arabic Corpus Linguistics

Arabic Corpus Linguistics
Author: Tony McEnery
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Total Pages: 244
Release: 2018-05-31
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0748677399

Explores the cultural politics of televisual engagements with the history, literature and archaeology of Ancient Greece

History of Linguistics 1999

History of Linguistics 1999
Author: Jocelyne Arpin
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 422
Release: 2002
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9789027245885

This volume represents a selection of 25 out of altogether 86 papers given at the Eighth International Conference for the History of the Language Sciences (ICHoLS VIII), which took place at the Ecole Normale Supérieure at Fontenay-aux-Roses, near Paris, in September 1999. This conference was marked by three new elements: the integration of the study of Amerindian languages into Western linguistics; a particular emphasis on the history of the teaching of (foreign) languages; and new information on the history of linguistics in Eastern Europe during the Soviet era.

Approaches to the History and Dialectology of Arabic in Honor of Pierre Larcher

Approaches to the History and Dialectology of Arabic in Honor of Pierre Larcher
Author: Manuel Sartori
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 606
Release: 2016-10-05
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9004325883

This volume includes the reflections of leading researchers on Arabic and Semitic languages, also understood as systems and representations. The work first deals with Biblical Hebrew, Early Aramaic, Afroasiatic and Semitic. Its core focuses on morpho-syntactic, semantic, pragmatic, rhetoric and logic matters, showing Arabic grammar's place within the system of the sciences of language. In the second part, authors deal with lexical issues, before they explore dialectology. The last stop is a reflection on how Arabic linguistics may prevent the understanding of the Arabs' own grammatical theory and the teaching and learning of Arabic.