The Concept of Honor in the Language of Early Arabic Poetry: A Cultural Linguistic Study

ISBN-13: 9783631882900 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 358 str.

Lukasz Bogucki; Bartosz Pietrzak

Opis

The book presents an ethnolinguistic study on lexical expressions of honor in the Language of Early Arabic Poetry. It applies the methodology of Cultural Linguistics in the research on language and culture of Arabs of al-Jahiliyya. It offers a description of pre-Islamic Arabic cultural model of honor and associated semantic frames.

Spis treści

Early Arabic Poetry and its language as an index for self-identification; methodology of Cultural Linguistics; anthropological data on honor; pre-Islamic Arabic code of honor: being kari m; generosity-honorability metonymy; kara ma-honor paid to equals; hasab-value of honorability; saraf-honor-precedence is elevated place; ird is personal honor; embodiment of ird is body; shame-dishonor model; model of honor; model of social evaluation of worthiness; Arabic-European contrast

O autorze

Bartosz Pietrzak, Ph.D., works at the Jagiellonian University in Cracow, Poland. His interests lie in Cultural Linguistics and Frame Semantics research in Semitic languages. He studies the cultural conceptualizations encoded in the formulas of the Language of Early Arabic Poetry, as well as in modern Arabic dialects, Modern Hebrew, and Maltese.