Category: Linguistics

By Marina Yaguello

Los angeles langue est-elle machiste ? Pourquoi certains noms comme orateur ou syndic sont-ils privés de féminin ? Faut-il modifier le style des mots par attachement à l'égalité des sexes ? C'est à toutes ces questions et bien d'autres que Marina Yaguello répond, de façon érudite mais jamais pédante, fidèle à son credo selon lequel los angeles linguistique n'est pas qu'une affaire de spécialistes.

By Eberhard Bons, Jan Joosten, Regine Hunziker-Rodewald, Romina Vergari

Lexicography, including grammatical stories and textual feedback, varieties the foundation of biblical exegesis. contemporary many years have visible a lot growth during this box, but expanding specialization additionally has a tendency to have the paradoxical impact of turning exegesis into an self reliant self-discipline, whereas leaving lexicography to the specialists. the current quantity seeks to resume and accentuate the trade among the examine of phrases and the examine of texts. this can be performed in connection with either the Hebrew resource textual content and the earliest Greek translation, the Septuagint. Questions addressed within the contributions to this quantity are how linguistic which means is effected, the way it pertains to phrases, and the way phrases will be translated into one other language, in Antiquity and at the present time. Etymology, semantic fields, syntagmatic family, note background, neologisms and different subthemes are mentioned. the most present and potential tasks of biblical lexicology or lexicography are awarded, therefore giving an idea of the cutting-edge. a number of the papers additionally open up wider views of interpretation.

By A.-C. Juret

By Natalie Muñoz

Disabusing ladies within the previous French Fabliaux offers a much-needed reevaluation of the position of girls within the fabliaux. Spanning the past due 12th and 13th centuries, the fabliaux are brief, ribald stories written in verse by means of in general nameless male authors. Their different portrayals of woman characters have commonly been thought of easily misogynistic. regardless of contemporary scholarship contending that the fabliaux aren't as anti-feminist as formerly suggestion, there was previously no full-length research of ladies within the fabliaux.
Serving as critics of medieval associations reminiscent of courtly love and knighthood, ladies in varied roles verify their organisation as matters throughout the manipulation of language. The depiction of those girls announcing their subjectivity inside medieval literary and cultural conventions frequently distorts the traditional family among the sexes, placing into query the very gender framework during which the fabliaux function. Written via males for males, the remaining ethical often serves to reassert conventional male dominance, thereby lowering any uneasiness the viewers can have felt. therefore the fabliaux solid ladies as robust clients of language the entire whereas acknowledging the boundaries in their subversion.

By Wieliczko L. A.

The military service Torpedo Bomber ''Tcnzan'' or Nakajima B6N, used to be codenamed Jill through the Allies. It was once the substitute of the well-known Nakajima B5N [Kate) torpedo bomber and even though extra B6N's have been equipped than B5N's, the aircraft by no means accomplished the awesome good fortune of its predecessor. It entered carrier within the moment half 1943 yet would not be used on a wide scale until eventually June, 1944 in the course of the air and sea battles within the Philippine Sea for the Mariana Islands. Later it might be utilized in Taiwan, the Philippines, Iwo Jima and Okinawa and for Kamikaze assaults. The crushing air superiority of the Allies and the lack of approximately all of the jap plane providers and their expert pilots resulted in many Tcnzans being misplaced, whereas by no means having had an opportunity to end up their worthy. besides the fact that the Tenzan by no means accomplished any genuine successes, it was once surely the most effective service dependent torpedo bombers of WWII...

By Leslie McLoughlin

Colloquial Arabic (Levantine) provides you with a step by step method of the Arabic spoken in Jordan, Syria, Lebanon and Palestine. Levantine Arabic is well known as one of many significant languages of Arabic radio and tv. in particular written via a global authority on instructing Arabic as a international language, Colloquial Arabic (Levantine) is the suitable path for self-study or classification use and calls for no prior wisdom of the language.

What makes Colloquial Arabic (Levantine)your best option in own language learning?

* Interactive – plenty of dialogues and workouts for normal practice.
* transparent – concise grammar notes.
* entire – together with solution key and dictionary section
* priceless – offers helpful information on every thing on the topic of language in its social, cultural, and spiritual contexts.
* cutting edge – the direction additionally teaches the abilities of studying Arabic script.

By Mortimer J. Adley, Charles Van Doren