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Writing Sumerian, Creating Texts: Reflections on Text-building Practices in Old Babylonian Schools [PDF]
, 2015 Sumerian lexical and literary compositions both emerged from the same social sphere, namely scribal education. The complexities of inter-compositional dependence in these two corpora have not been thoroughly explored, particularly as relevant to ...
Jay Crisostomo
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.Economic anthropologists now carry out fieldwork in settings for which the ethnographic method was never designed, amongst powerful financial actors who are notoriously difficult to access, and in contexts which transcend geographical boundaries. This has engendered a re‐orientation of anthropology, to consider not only the economic lives of people but
Kimberly Chong
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Georges Balandier’s Africa : postcolonial translations and ambiguous reprises [PDF]
, 2018 This article focuses on Georges Balandier’s autobiographical essay Afrique ambiguë (1957). Its translation into English, Ambiguous Africa: Cultures in Collision (1966), provides the basis for an examination of the concept of translation in its linguistic
Fraiture, Pierre-Philippe
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Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.Abstract Based on an analysis of the Old Literary Tibetan corpus—a corpus of the oldest documented Tibetic language—the present study provides evidence that literary Tibetan v3 verb stems (commonly termed ‘future’) initially encoded passive voice. New arguments put forward in this article range from Trans‐Himalayan nominal morphology to early Tibetan ...
Joanna Bialek
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طبيعة المعنى اللغوي وطبيعة بنائه: دراسة في المنظورين التقليدي والإدراكي
الآداب للدراسات اللغوية والأدبيةتستكشف هذه الدراسة طبيعة المعنى اللغوي وطبيعة بنائه في الدلالات الحرفية التقليدية والدلالات الإدراكية الحديثة، وتفحص بعض المفاهيم ذات الصلة. واقتضت طبيعة الموضوع أن تكون في مقدمة وتمهيد وثلاثة مباحث، تضمن المبحث الأول طبيعة المعنى اللغوي في المنظورين ...
سامي محمد نعمان +1 more
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Due to the diversity of perspectives and methodologies within the relative uniformity of the subject, this collection of papers offers a rich overview of the multidisciplinary research on Arabic literature. The book includes two thematic parts. The first of them pertains to studies on Arabic literature, more precisely, on historical chronicles ...
Michalak-Pikulska, Barbara +2 more
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Reconstructing Old Chinese *‐ts Using Han‐Time Material
Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.Abstract Baxter & Sagart (2014b) reconstruct *‐Vt‐s on the basis of Middle Chinese reflexes in ‐jH (from some OC *‐s) coupled with either etymological or graphic connections to words in Middle Chinese ‐t. This approach, while perfectly sound, can suffer from lack of etymological or graphic data, leading to missed reconstructions. Since Old Chinese *‐ts
Julien Baley
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الأفعال الكلامية في خطاب التهنئة بالعيد في البلدان العربية من منظور تداولي
الآداب للدراسات اللغوية والأدبيةسعت الدراسة الحالية إلى رصد الأفعال الكلامية في خطاب التهنئة بالعيد، الشائعة في البلدان العربية، ودراستها من منظور تداولي، معتمدة في ذلك على المنهج التداولي الذي يهتم باللغة المستعملة.
أفراح أبو البشر محمد بابكر
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Trajectories in the Development of Islamic Theological Thought: the Synthesis of Kalam [PDF]
, 2007 The field of Islamic theology (kalam) is not merely a receptacle for the presentation of the creedal statements and doctrinal catechisms of Islam; it derives its raison d’être not only from the articulation and elucidation of the doctrines of faith, but ...
Shah, Mustafa
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The Gender of Fossil Fuels: Oil and Domestic Perils in Mandate Palestine
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article explores the gender dynamics behind the rise of kerosene – an oil derivative – as the main domestic fuel in Mandate Palestine. It argues that these dynamics were constitutive in determining who began to use oil, where and for what purposes, in turn demonstrating that women in Palestine were the promoters and targets of a campaign ...
Shira Pinhas
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