The poetics of grammar and the metaphysics of sound and sign /

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Recognizing the seemingly universal notion of a grammatical cosmos, this volume addresses the question of how grammar and culturally encoded sounds and signs provide cognitive maps of reality in a variety of great civilizations.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: La Porta, Sergio, Shulman, David Dean, 1949-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2007.
Series:Jerusalem studies in religion and culture ; v. 6.
Subjects:
Grammar, Comparative and general.
Language and culture.
Grammaire comparée et générale.
Langage et culture.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Grammar & Punctuation.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Linguistics > Syntax.
Grammar, Comparative and general
Language and culture
Grammatik
Kognitive Linguistik
Phonetik
Religiöse Sprache
Weltreligion
Grammatica.
Religieuze literatuur.
Cultuurfilosofie.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction (S. La Porta and D. Shulman); PART ONE CREATION; 1. Creation through Hieroglyphs: The Cosmic Grammatology of Ancient Egypt (Jan Assmann); 2. KUN
  • the Existence-Bestowing Word in Islamic Mysticism: A Survey of Texts on the Creative Power of Language (Sara Sviri); 3. Adam's Naming of the Animals: Naming or Creation? (Michael E. Stone); 4. Greek Distrust of Language (Margalit Finkelberg); PART TWO CULTURAL ENCODING; 5. This is no Lotus, it is a Face: Poetics as Grammar in Dandin's Investigation of the Simile (Yigal Bronner).

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