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Blessings, Curses, Hopes, and Fears : Psycho-Ostensive Expressions in Yiddish /
In this delightful book, the author enumerates and classifies the formulas Yiddish speakers use to express their emotions. It is a rarity among scholarly books, for it brings joy while it teaches; it makes us smile, sometimes roar with laughter, while it develops the most rigorous linguistic argumen...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Stanford, CA :
Stanford University Press,
[2022]
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| Colección: | Contraversions: Jews and Other Differences
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- FOREWORD TO THE FIRST EDITION
- ABBREVIATIONS
- NOTE ON TRANSCRIPTION OF YIDDISH WORDS
- 1. INTRODUCTION
- 2. SEMANTIC SUBTYPES OF PSYCHO-OSTENSIVE EXPRESSIONS
- 3. BONO-RECOGNITION: THANKS AND CONGRATULATIONS
- 4. MALO-RECOGNITION: LAMENTATION AND SYMPATHY
- 5. PETITIVE ATTITUDES
- 6. BONO-PETITION
- 7. MALO-FUGITION: DELIVER US FROM EVIL!
- 8. PSYCHO-OSTENSIVES RELATING TO THE DEAD
- 9. ALLO-MALO-PETITION: CURSES!
- 10. SWEARING OATHS
- 11. CONCLUSION AND COMMENCEMENT
- 12. EPES AN ÉPILOG: THE RELEVANCE OF YIDDISH PSYCHO-OSTENSIVES TO RECENT AND FUTURE WORK IN LINGUISTICS AND OTHER FIELDS
- NOTES
- BIBLIOGRAPHY TO THE FIRST EDITION
- ADDITIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHY (SECOND EDITION)
- CONTRAVERSIONS