Text Linguistics and Classical Studies

Text Linguistics and Classical Studies
Author: Mauro Giuffrè
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 129
Release: 2016-11-17
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3319479318

The work represents a significant scientific advancement on text linguistics from three different viewpoints. The first chapter provides an overview of the history of text linguistics from a broader perspective than usual, offering a complete reference framework. The second chapter presents the procedural approach to the study of text linguistics in a concise way, including a critical comparison with other perspectives. The third chapter constructs a very unusual bridge between theoretical linguistics and classical studies in that it takes a literary text in Latin from the early imperial period as its case study. This combination is rare, as theoretical linguists are usually oriented to modern languages and classicists are not generally inclined to the study of formal linguistics. It also offers an interesting perspective that intersects the studies of general linguistics and glottology, which makes this volume of interest to general linguists, classicists, philologists and literary critics alike.

Language and Linguistic Contact in Ancient Sicily

Language and Linguistic Contact in Ancient Sicily
Author: Olga Tribulato
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 449
Release: 2012-11-29
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 1107029317

A comprehensive and up-to-date account of the languages of ancient Sicily by an international team of experts.

The Language of Literature

The Language of Literature
Author: Rutger Jakob Allan
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 268
Release: 2007
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9004156542

A collection of papers revealing the boundary between linguistic and literary approaches to classical texts.

Arab Linguistics

Arab Linguistics
Author: Michael G. Carter
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 502
Release: 1981-01-01
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027286515

This volume provides an analysis of a famous medieval Arabic grammatical text, al-Ājurrūmiya (c. 1300), as commented on by aš-Šhirbīnī (d. 1570). This edition includes the original text and a translation into English, as well as extensive comments and annotations, with the aim of making accessible both to Arabists and non-Arabists the main elements of indigenous Arabic linguistics, and thereby at least partially filling a large blank in the history of linguistics.

Cognitive Linguistic Approaches to Text and Discourse

Cognitive Linguistic Approaches to Text and Discourse
Author: Hart Christopher Hart
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Total Pages: 298
Release: 2019-05-15
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1474450016

Drawing on range of text genres including novels, poems, health forums, holiday guestbooks, prayers, political songs and news stories, each chapter uses cognitive linguistics to shed light on the meanings and meaning-making processes invoked when we encounter texts belonging to different literary and political genres. The book presents new insights into the workings of textual phenomena such as metaphor, viewpoint and deixis and also sheds light on more elusive, epiphenomenal qualities such as a text's ambience, atmosphere, power, ideology or persuasiveness. It also takes new strides in cognitive text analysis by exploiting experimental and ethnographic methods to empirically investigate readers' reception of, and resistance to, texts.

Digital Classical Philology

Digital Classical Philology
Author: Monica Berti
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2019-08-05
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 3110596997

Thanks to the digital revolution, even a traditional discipline like philology has been enjoying a renaissance within academia and beyond. Decades of work have been producing groundbreaking results, raising new research questions and creating innovative educational resources. This book describes the rapidly developing state of the art of digital philology with a focus on Ancient Greek and Latin, the classical languages of Western culture. Contributions cover a wide range of topics about the accessibility and analysis of Greek and Latin sources. The discussion is organized in five sections concerning open data of Greek and Latin texts; catalogs and citations of authors and works; data entry, collection and analysis for classical philology; critical editions and annotations of sources; and finally linguistic annotations and lexical databases. As a whole, the volume provides a comprehensive outline of an emergent research field for a new generation of scholars and students, explaining what is reachable and analyzable that was not before in terms of technology and accessibility.

Studies in Etymology

Studies in Etymology
Author: Charles W. Dunmore
Publisher: Hackett Publishing
Total Pages: 248
Release: 2008-07-17
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1585109894

Studies in Etymology is a textbook for a course or self study in building vocabulary through an understanding of Latin and Greek roots and the grammar of word formation. The first half of the book is devoted to Latin roots and word formation through the influence of Latin grammar and language development. The second half of the book deals with Greek, the nuances of Greek grammar and syntax, as well as the influences of such things as Greek mythology on the creation of words in English. A special section is devoted to science and medicine.