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Henrike Rudolph, Sinologin an der Uni Erlangen-Nürnberg, teilt in ihrem Blog Forschungsergebnisse und -erlebnisse. Damit möchte sie auch auf die Arbeit anderer ForscherInnen aufmerksam machen. Dabei spiegelt der Blog meine Forschungsinteressen wider, die geprägt wurden…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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,…
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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…
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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…
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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…