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Scribes as Agents of Language Change
Author | : Esther-Miriam Wagner,Ben Outhwaite,Bettina Beinhoff |
Publsiher | : Walter de Gruyter |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 2013-03-22 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 1614510555 |
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The majority of our evidence for language change in pre-modern times comes from the written output of scribes. The present volume deals with a variety of aspects of language change and focuses on the role of scribes. The individual articles, which treat different theoretical and empirical issues, reflect a broad cross-linguistic and cross-cultural diversity. The languages that are represented cover a broad spectrum, and the empirical data come from a wide range of sources. This book provides a wealth of new data and new perspectives on old problems, and it raises new questions about the actual mechanisms of language change.
Scribes as Agents of Language Change
Author | : Esther-Miriam Wagner,Ben Outhwaite,Bettina Beinhoff |
Publsiher | : Walter de Gruyter |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2013-03-22 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9781614510543 |
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The majority of our evidence for language change in pre-modern times comes from the written output of scribes. The present volume deals with a variety of aspects of language change and focuses on the role of scribes. The individual articles, which treat different theoretical and empirical issues, reflect a broad cross-linguistic and cross-cultural diversity. The languages that are represented cover a broad spectrum, and the empirical data come from a wide range of sources. This book provides a wealth of new data and new perspectives on old problems, and it raises new questions about the actual mechanisms of language change.
Creating Standards
Author | : Dmitry Bondarev,Alessandro Gori,Lameen Souag |
Publsiher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 436 |
Release | : 2019-04-15 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9783110635089 |
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Manuscript cultures based on Arabic script feature various tendencies in standardisation of orthography, script types and layout. Unlike previous studies, this book steps outside disciplinary and regional boundaries and provides a typological cross-cultural comparison of standardisation processes in twelve Arabic-influenced writing traditions where different cultures, languages and scripts interact. A wide range of case studies give insights into the factors behind uniformity and variation in Judeo-Arabic in Hebrew script, South Palestinian Christian Arabic, New Persian, Aljamiado of the Spanish Moriscos, Ottoman Turkish, a single multilingual Ottoman manuscript, Sino-Arabic in northwest China, Malay Jawi in the Moluccas, Kanuri and Hausa in Nigeria, Kabyle in Algeria, and Ethiopian Fidäl script as used to transliterate Arabic. One of the findings of this volume is that different domains of manuscript cultures have distinct paths of standardisation, so that orthography tends to develop its own standardisation principles irrespective of norms applied to layout and script types. This book will appeal to readers interested in manuscript studies, sociolinguistics, literacy studies, and history of writing.
Poets and Scribes in Late Medieval England
Author | : Michael Johnston,Kathryn Kerby-Fulton,Derek Pearsall |
Publsiher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2023-10-23 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781501516481 |
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Susanna Fein’s long and distinguished scholarly career has helped to redefine how we understand the role of scribes and manuscripts from late medieval England. She has carried out groundbreaking research on seminal manuscripts (e.g., Harley 2253, the Thornton Manuscripts, John Audley’s autograph manuscript, and the Auchinleck Manuscript). She has written extensively on the more complex and challenging metrical forms the period produced. And she has edited foundational primary texts and collections of essays. A wide range of scholars have been influenced by Fein’s work, many of whom present original research—much of it following trails first laid down by Fein—in this volume.
The Challenge of Change
Author | : Margaret Tudeau-Clayton,Martin Hilpert |
Publsiher | : Narr Francke Attempto Verlag |
Total Pages | : 269 |
Release | : 2018-09-10 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9783823392415 |
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Change is a powerful idea which inspires hope and fear, excitement and dread. From the panta rhei of Heraclitus to Darwinian evolutionary theory, nobel laureate Bob Dylans The times they are a-changin, the Obama campaign slogan Change we can believe in, and the current advertising mantra change is good, it recurs as a challenge to the status quo. The present volume contains essays on the topic of change in English language, literature and culture. Some are based on papers presented at the 2017 SAUTE conference, which took place at the Université de Neuchâtel, while others have been specially written for this volume.
Merchants of Innovation
Author | : Esther-Miriam Wagner,Bettina Beinhoff,Ben Outhwaite |
Publsiher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 2017-05-08 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9781501503412 |
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Traders around the world use particular spoken argots, to guard commercial secrets or to cement their identity as members of a certain group. The written registers of traders, too, in correspondence and other commercial texts show significant differences from the language used in official, legal or private writing. This volume suggests a clear cross-linguistic tendency that mercantile writing displays a greater degree of language mixing, code-switching and linguistic innovations, and, by setting precedents, promote language change. This interdisciplinary volume aims to place the traders' languages within a wider sociolinguistic context. Questions addressed include: What differences can be observed between mercantile registers and those of court or legal scribes? Do the traders' texts show the early emergence of features that take longer to permeate into the 'higher' varieties of the same language? Do they anticipate language change in the standard register or influence it by setting linguistic precedents? What sets traders' letters apart from private correspondence and other 'low' registers? The book will also examine bilingualism, semi-bilingualism, reasons for code-switching and the choice of particular languages over others in commercial correspondence.
Beloved David Advisor Man of Understanding and Writer
Author | : Naftali S. Cohn,Katrin Kogman-Appel |
Publsiher | : SBL Press |
Total Pages | : 775 |
Release | : 2024-06-07 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9781951498993 |
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This volume brings together the latest scholarship on Jewish literary products and the ways in which they can be interpreted from three different perspectives. In part 1, contributors consider texts as literature, as cultural products, and as historical documents to demonstrate the many ways that early Jewish, rabbinic, and modern secular Jewish literary works make meaning and can be read meaningfully. Part 2 focuses on exegesis of specific biblical and rabbinic texts as well as medieval Jewish poetry. Part 3 examines medieval and early modern Jewish books as material objects and explores the history, functions, and reception of these material objects. Contributors include Javier del Barco, Elisheva Carlebach, Ezra Chwat, Evelyn M. Cohen, Naftali S. Cohn, William Cutter, Yaacob Dweck, Talya Fishman, Steven D. Fraade, Dalia-Ruth Halperin, Martha Himmelfarb, Marc Hirshman, Tamar Kadari, Israel Knohl, Susanne Klingenstein, Katrin Kogman-Appel, Jon D. Levenson, Paul Mandel, Annett Martini, Jordan S. Penkower, Annette Yoshiko Reed, Jeffrey L. Rubenstein, Shalom Sabar, Raymond P. Scheindlin, Seth Schwartz, Sarit Shalev-Eyni, Moshe Simon-Shoshan, Peter Stallybrass, Josef Stern, Barry Scott Wimpfheimer, Elliot R. Wolfson, Azzan Yadin-Israel, and Joseph Yahalom.
The Cambridge Handbook of Historical Orthography
Author | : Marco Condorelli,Hanna Rutkowska |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 837 |
Release | : 2023-10-12 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9781108487313 |
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Written by a team of global scholars, this is the first Handbook covering the rapidly growing field of historical orthography. Comprehensive yet accessible, it is essential reading for academic researchers and students in the field, and in related areas such as morphology, syntax, historical linguistics, linguistic typology and sociolinguistics.