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Studies in Rabbinic Hebrew
This volume presents a collection of articles centring on the language of the Mishnah and the Talmud – the most important Jewish texts (after the Bible), which were compiled in Palestine and Babylonia in the latter centuries of Late Antiquity. Despite the fact that Rabbinic Hebrew has been the subject of growing academic interest across the past century, very little scholarship has been writt…
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- 9781783746828
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- vii, 227p.
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- 492.45 SHA s
Points of contact : the shared intellectual history of vocalisation in Syriac…
In the first few centuries of Islam, Middle Eastern Christians, Muslims, and Jews alike all faced the challenges of preserving their holy texts in the midst of a changing religious landscape. This situation led Syriac, Arabic, and Hebrew scholars to develop new fields of linguistic science in order to better analyse the languages of the Bible and the Qurʾān. Part of this work dealt with the i…
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- 9781800642980
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- xii, 370 p.
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- 492 POS p
A grammar of the Eastern European Hasidic Hebrew tale
This volume constitutes the first reference grammar of the Hasidic Hebrew hagiographic tales composed in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Eastern Europe. It presents a thorough survey of Hasidic Hebrew orthography, morphology, syntax, and lexis illustrated with extensive examples.
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- 9789004281622
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- x, 450 p.
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- Studies in Semitic languages and linguistics
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- 492.47 KAH g
Kamus Sunda-Melayu (Schoemann iv.2) koleksi staatbibliothek zu Berlin preußi…
Naskah kuno mengandung berbagai informasi penting yang harus diungkap dan disamapikan kepada masyarakat. Tetapi, naskah-naskah kuno yang ada di Nusantara biasanya ditulis dalam aksara non-Latin dan bahasa daerah atau bahasa asing (Arab, Cina, Sansekerta, Belanda, Inggris, Portugis, Prancis). Hal ini menjadi kesulitan tersendiri dalam memahami naskah. Salah satu cara untuk mengungkap d…
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- 9786233131995
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- 78 pages
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- 499.223 HOL
Captioning and subtitling for d/Deaf and hard of hearing audiences
Captioning and Subtitling for d/Deaf and Hard of Hearing Audiences is a comprehensive guide to the theory and practice of captioning and subtitling, a discipline that has evolved quickly in recent years. This guide is of a practical nature and contains examples and exercises at the end of each chapter. Some of the tasks stimulate reflection on the practice and reception, while others focus o…
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- 9781787357105
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- xxi, 154p. : ill.
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- 418.02 ZAR c
Discourse in translation
This book explores the discourse in and of translation within and across cultures and languages. From the macro aspects of translation as an inter- cultural project to actual analysis of textual ingredients that contribute to translation and interpreting as discourse, the ten chapters represent different explorations of ‘global’ theories of discourse and translation. Offering interrogations…
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- 9781315098791
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- xvii, 243 p.: ill.
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- 418.02 FAI d
Morphosyntactic variation in medieval Celtic languages : corpus-based approaches
This book showcases the state of the art in corpus-based linguistic analysis of Celtic languages (specifically, Old/Middle Irish, Middle Welsh, and Cornish). It explores corpus approaches to morphosyntactic variation in the medieval Celtic languages and, for the first time, situates them in the broader field of computational and corpus linguistics by providing descriptions of tools for processi…
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- 9783110680744
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- xviii, 396 p. : ill.
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- 491.627 LAS m
Making Black history : diasporic fiction in the moment of afropolitanism
This study proposes that Afropolitanism may be best approached as a distinct cultural moment or historical constellation that allows us to glimpse the shifting and multiple silhouettes which Africa – as signifier, as real and imagined locus – embodies in the globalized cultural landscape of the 21st century. As such, Making Black History looks at contemporary diasporic fictions that have be…
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- 9783110722093
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- vii, 254 p. : ill.
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- 420 HAE m
Anthology of Arabic discourse on translation
This anthology brings the key writings on translation in Arabic in the pre-modern era, extending from the earliest times (sixth century CE) until the end of World War I, to a global English-speaking audience. The texts are arranged chronologically and organized by two historical periods: the Classical Period, and the Nahda Period. Each text is preceded by an introduction about the selected text…
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- 9781003247784
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- xiii, 399 p. : ill
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- Translation Studies in Translation
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- 492.7802 SHA a
Significance in language: a theory of semantics
This book offers a unique perspective on meaning in language, broadening the scope of existing understanding of meaning by introducing a comprehensive and cohesive account of meaning that draws on a wide range of linguistic approaches. The volume seeks to build up a complete picture of what meaning is, different types of meaning, and different ways of structuring the same meaning across myriad …
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- 9781003259381
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- vi, 330 p. : ill.
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- Routledge Studies in Linguistics
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- 420.143 FEI s
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