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Verbal Festivity in Arabic and Other Semitic Languages: Proceedings of the Workshop at the Universitatsclub Bonn on January 16, 2009

Verbal Festivity in Arabic and Other Semitic Languages: Proceedings of the Workshop at the Universitatsclub Bonn on January 16, 2009

Guth, Stephan
Edzard, Lutz

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Series: Abhandlungen Fur die Kunde Des Morgenlandes, Book 72

Arabic

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ISBN10: 3447062398
ISBN13: 9783447062398
Publisher: Harrassowitz
Published: Jun 1 2010
Pages: 115
Weight: 0.40
Height: 0.40 Width: 5.70 Depth: 8.70
Language: English
Verbal Festivity in Arabic and Other Semitic Languages edited by Lutz Edzard and Stephan Guth deals with one of the most essential and fascinating, though still much neglected aspects of Middle Eastern culture(s) - politeness and the ways it can be expressed or encoded in language. The contributions to the Proceedings of a workshop held in Bonn in 2009 attempt to shed spotlights on several aspects of Verbal Festivity. They include a comparative approach (English-German-Arabic) to the cultural concepts of politeness, Hoflichkeit, and adab in general (Stephan Guth); a survey of everyday-life polite formulae and expressions of courtesy in Palestinian Arabic (Avihai Shivtiel); a study of the morphological patterns of Arabic formulaic terminology itself (Pierre Larcher); a linguistic analysis of how the wish, or intention, to fulfill ethical duties or prescriptions is expressed in some neo-Aramaic dialects (Geoffrey Khan); a comparative investigation, covering several Semitic languages, of how to remain polite through suppressing explicit mentioning of the negative consequences the addressee will face if he does not comply with the speaker's suggestions (Lutz Edzard); and an analysis of formulae used in commercial documents at a 13th century Red Sea port (Andreas Kaplony).

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