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Author : C. M. Naim
Publisher : Orient Blackswan
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 11,12 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Urdu literature
ISBN : 9788178240756
Chiefly on Urdu poetry.
Author : Jeffrey R. Timm
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 25,95 MB
Release : 1992-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780791407967
The major religious traditions of South Asia are religions of the book. All accept basic arrays of texts of scriptures, often seen as sacred reservoirs of meaning and power. The West has viewed these texts as bibles of their respective traditions, projecting onto them Western values and concerns. This book challenges such misconceptions by revealing the complex character of scripture and its interpretation in South Asian religions. Texts in Context explores the hermeneutical traditions of Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, Islam, and Sikhism. The question of how we should understand the diversity of text-traditions is approached by asking How have traditional thinkers the exegetes within these traditions understood and utilized scripture? The answers, though remarkably diverse, do reveal important similarities and take the discussion of scripture in India to a deeper level. This book makes accessible to the non-specialist sensibilities and approaches that have previously received little attention in the West, but have formed the basis for traditional efforts to understand and utilize scripture. It is a collaboration between contemporary thinkers and their traditional counterparts, whose voices emerge as they consider the sacred words of the religious traditions of South Asia.
Author : Ali Sultaan Asani
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 99 pages
File Size : 36,42 MB
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0300120605
An introduction to the Urdu language offers lessons on grammar, vocabulary, and the letters of the Urdu alphabet and how they are used in words and sentences.
Author : Rajesh Kumar
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 33,12 MB
Release : 2019-04-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1527533956
Language is central to our existence and it happens to be the most sophisticated product of the human mind. It is inconceivable to think of ourselves, our societies, our ideas, cultures or identities without language. It is the primary means of socialization, and whatever we know is a result of it. It is the primary medium of construction and dissemination of knowledge, and structures our thought processes in important ways that constitute our identity. In very complex ways, it interacts with the social, political and economic power structures that remain significant in defining the identities of individuals and societies. The essays in this volume create an awareness and understanding about the role of linguistic context in negotiating identity. The book explains identity and the complex relations between language and several aspects of our society. It explores identity through text and context, and will serve to trigger a novel discourse around the centrality of identity in contemporary society.
Author : K. C. Kanda
Publisher : Sterling Publishers Pvt. Ltd
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 14,5 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9788120718265
This book is a companion volume to author's earlier book, "Masterpieces of Urdu Ghazal" which contained English translations of 108 ghazals selected from nine major poets. The present volume contains 129 ghazals representing 20 outstanding Urdu poets. Thus, this anthology, taken together with The Masterpieces, may rightly claim to be a fully representative collection of Urdu ghazals in English translation. The ghazals are carefully selected and explained in English for the average readers as well as Urdu Connoisseurs. The book contains brief biographical notes and introductory essays on the ghazals.
Author : Walter N. Hakala
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 14,36 MB
Release : 2016-08-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0231542127
Prior to the nineteenth century, South Asian dictionaries, glossaries, and vocabularies reflected a hierarchical vision of nature and human society. By the turn of the twentieth century, the modern dictionary had democratized and politicized language. Compiled "scientifically" through "historical principles," the modern dictionary became a concrete symbol of a nation's arrival on the world stage. Following this phenomenon from the late seventeenth century to the present, Negotiating Languages casts lexicographers as key figures in the political realignment of South Asia under British rule and in the years after independence. Their dictionaries document how a single, mutually intelligible language evolved into two competing registers—Urdu and Hindi—and became associated with contrasting religious and nationalist goals. Each chapter in this volume focuses on a key lexicographical work and its fateful political consequences. Recovering texts by overlooked and even denigrated authors, Negotiating Languages provides insight into the forces that turned intimate speech into a potent nationalist politics, intensifying the passions that partitioned the Indian subcontinent.
Author : Farhat Hasan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 13,19 MB
Release : 2024-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 1009453033
Based on the women's biographical compendia, this is a study of the memory of women in the literary culture in early modern India.
Author : Frederick de Jong
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 559 pages
File Size : 50,89 MB
Release : 2017-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9004354026
The current volume presents a selection of 126 texts in Uyghur posted in public spaces, translated, and annotated for this book. The author started photographing Uyghur texts in 2008 at the time of the Beijing olympics and continued to do so during 2009, the year of the so-called “Urumqi uprising” of July 5. This event generated a stream of texts posted in public spaces that reflected the efforts made by the authorities to re-establish control. In the course of his travels in the years thereafter the author continued to add to the corpus of photographed Uyghur texts. At the same time he started collecting, as comprehensively as possible, various types of folders, brochures, handouts, and product wrappings with texts illustrating aspects of Uyghur culture and society. The texts, published here for the first time, are primary source materials documenting a wide variety of aspects of daily life of the Uyghurs in Shinjang. The implicit messages or explicit references contained in many of these texts give them significance as clues towards an understanding of the existential realities they reflect or illustrate.
Author : Ruth Page
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 27,53 MB
Release : 2018-08-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1351183206
This collection of original research highlights the legacy of Michael Toolan’s pioneering contributions to the field of stylistics and in so doing provides a critical overview of the ways in which language, text, and context are analyzed in the field and its related disciplines. Featuring work from an international range of contributors, the book illustrates how the field of stylistics has evolved in the 25 years since the publication of Toolan’s seminal Language, Text and Context, which laid the foundation for the analysis of the language and style in literary texts. The volume demonstrates how technological innovations and the development of new interdisciplinary methodologies, including those from corpus, cognitive, and multimodal stylistics, point to the greater degree of interplay between language, text, and context exemplified in current research and how this dynamic relationship can be understood by featuring examples from a variety of texts and media. Underscoring the significance of Michael Toolan’s extensive work in the field in the evolution of literary linguistic research, this volume is key reading for students and researchers in stylistics, discourse studies, corpus linguistics, and interdisciplinary literary studies.
Author : Ranjit Kaur Kapoor
Publisher :
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 19,4 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Indic literature
ISBN :
Papers presented at National Seminar "Interrogating the 'Post' Condition: Theory, Texts, and Contexts," held on 20-21 January, 2000, at Punjabi University, Patiala.