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The Concept of Honor in the Language of Early Arabic Poetry

A Cultural Linguistic Study

Bartosz Pietrzak author Łukasz Bogucki editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Peter Lang AG

Published:28th Nov '22

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The book presents an ethnolinguistic study on lexical expressions of honor in the Language of Early Arabic Poetry. It is the first application of Cultural-Linguistic methodology in research on the language and culture of al-Jahiliyya Arabs. Consequently, it is one of the first cultural cognitive linguistic studies on Classical Arabic semantics and lexicology. The book examines the use of Arabic honor-related lexis in the oral-formulaic pre-Islamic poetry, and interprets lexical expressions as encoding cultural conceptualizations: cognitive schemata and categories, and conceptual metaphors and metonymies. An exhaustive description of pre-Islamic Arabic cultural models of honor and social evaluation is offered alongside semantic frames for discourses of honor available to pre-Islamic Arabs.

ISBN: 9783631882900

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 531g

358 pages

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