[PDF] Language And Culture In The Near East eBook

Author : Georg Krotkoff
Publisher : Eisenbrauns
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 43,1 MB
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 1575060205

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Essays by 33 colleagues, friends, and students of the Johns Hopkins University Arabist and linguist. Topics include (1) humanism, culture, and literature; (2) Arabic; (3) Aramaic; and (4) Afroasiatic.

Author : John Myhill
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 36,88 MB
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 902722711X

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This book discusses the historical record of the idea that language is associated with national identity, demonstrating that different applications of this idea have consistently produced certain types of results. Nationalist movements aimed at 'unification', based upon languages which vary greatly at the spoken level, e.g. German, Italian, Pan-Turkish and Arabic, have been associated with aggression, fascism and genocide, while those based upon relatively homogeneous spoken languages, e.g. Czech, Norwegian and Ukrainian, have resulted in national liberation and international stability. It is also shown that religion can be more important to national identity than language, but only for religious groups which were understood in premodern times to be national rather than universal or doctrinal, e.g. Jews, Armenians, Maronites, Serbs, Dutch and English; this is demonstrated with discussions of the Holocaust, the Armenian Genocide, the civil war in Lebanon and the breakup of Yugoslavia, the United Netherlands and the United Kingdom.

Author : Karel van Lerberghe
Publisher : Peeters Publishers
Page : 572 pages
File Size : 19,69 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9789042907195

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This volume contains 33 papers presented at the 42th Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale held at the University of Leuven in July 1995. The main purpose of the conference on Languages and Cultures in Contact was to focus on contacts and exchanges between the various cultures in the Syro-Mesopotamian realm by re-evaluating the geographical limits of 'Mesopotamian' civilization to include the Upper- and Middle-Euphrates regions of Syria. These proceedings cover areas of research in the fields of philology, archaeology and history alike. They bring together essays on a great number of topics, including comparative linguistics, the spread of literacy and administrative practices, cultural exchanges, diffusion and acculturation. Finally the book contains reports on current excavations and surveys in the Ancient Near East.

Author : Şerif Mardin
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 27,93 MB
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004098732

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This work provides information on an aspect of the encounter of Islam with the West which is best described as the unconscious appropriation by Islam of elements of Western culture.

Author : Yasir Suleiman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 24,22 MB
Release : 2013-12-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 131784937X

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This book investigates issues of central importance in understanding the role of language in society in the Middle East and North Africa. In particular, it covers issues of collective identity and variation as they relate to Arabic, Berber, English, Persian and Turkish in the fields of gender, national affiliation, the debate over authenticity and modernity, language reforms and language legislation. In addition, the book investigates how some of these issues are realized in the diaspora at both the micro and macro levels.

Author : Wolfram von Soden
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 21,27 MB
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN : 9780802801425

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This book represents the first comprehensive, interdisciplinary presentation of ancient Near Eastern civilization. The author's study includes treatments of the history of language and systems of writing, the state and society, nutrition and agriculture, artisanry, economics, law, science, religion and magic, art, music, and more.