scholarly journals In Opstanding met verheerlikte liggame in Matteus 27:51 b-53? In Noukeurige lees van die teks

1996 ◽  
Vol 52 (2/3) ◽  
Author(s):  
S. P. Botha
Keyword(s):  
Close Reading ◽  
Bodily Resurrection ◽  
Narrative Context ◽  
Lexical Items ◽  
Semantic Domains

A glorified bodily resurrection in Matthew 27:51b-53? A close reading of the text. Matthew 27:51 b-53 is a crux interpretum in the exegesis of the Matthew text. By comparing the semantic domains of lexical items and by determining the subtle distinctions between closely related words, the article takes a close look at the reading of this text. The text is interpreted within its narrative context against the background of the apostolic preaching tradition. Following these exegetical lines, the article makes the point that the resurrection of the saints in Matthew 27:51b-53 is to be understood as a glorified bodily resurrection.

The Qur'an Made Linear: A Study of the Geschichte des Qorâns' Chronological Reordering

2008 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emmanuelle Stefanidis
Keyword(s):  
Present State ◽  
Sense Of Coherence ◽  
Strong Sense ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
Sacred Text ◽  
Historical Accuracy ◽  
Narrative Context ◽  
Main Entrance

The chronological reordering of the Qur'an remains one of the main entrance gates to the Muslim sacred text for researchers today. However, if chronology produces a strong sense of coherence by providing both an organising principle and a narrative context, its historical accuracy is difficult to assess. Recurrent criticism points to its dependence on traditional materials, the circularity of its argumentation, and the inability to appreciate, and account for, the present state of the Qur'anic text. This article engages these questions through a close reading of one of the most influential chronological reorderings, that of the Geschichte des Qorâns by Nöldeke and Schwally, taking the different versions of this seminal text into consideration so as to explore its assumptions, methodology and originality. Particular attention is paid to the textual impact of this linear reading on the Qur'anic text and to the inherent difficulties encountered in any chronological arrangement of the Muslim scripture.

Non-French lexicon in Guianese French Creole

2019 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-48
Author(s):  
Evelyn Wiesinger
Keyword(s):  
French Guiana ◽  
Explanatory Power ◽  
Limited Data ◽  
Linguistic Data ◽  
Qualitative Nature ◽  
Word Classes ◽  
Lexical Items ◽  
Semantic Domains

Abstract Guianese French Creole1 (GFC) is one of the least studied French Creoles, which is especially true with respect to its non-French-related input. Combining sociohistorical, demographic and linguistic data, this contribution gives a first lexico-etymological account of the GFC lexicon of non-French origin, including Amerindian and Portuguese influences and especially the quantitative and qualitative nature of the contribution made by different Niger-Congo languages. These findings are discussed in light of controversial hypotheses on the particular influence of early numerical and/or socially dominant ethnolinguistic groups on the creole lexicon (i.e. Baker 2012), as well as with regard to word classes and semantic domains to which the different groups contributed. Whereas Gbe and non-Gbe languages clearly diverge with regard to their semantic contribution, the early dominance of presumably Gbe-speaking slaves in French Guiana is not reflected in the numerical proportion of Gbe-related lexical items in GFC, at least on the basis of my still limited data. This study thus tentatively confirms the lesser explanatory power of the lexicon for creole genesis scenarios and points to the fact that sub- or adstrate-related lexical items may have taken very complex etymological routes, which clearly need further study.

On the Linguistic Relationship Between Mawé and Tupí-Guaraní

Diachronica ◽  
1997 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 265-304 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aryon D. Rodrigues ◽  
Wolf Dietrich
Keyword(s):  
Detailed Comparison ◽  
Morphological Features ◽  
Verb Morphology ◽  
Last 300 Years ◽  
Lexical Items ◽  
Semantic Domains

SUMMARY In this paper the authors systematically compare the phonemes and main morphological features of the Amazonian language Mawe with those of the Tupi-Guaranian languages as a contribution to understanding the disputed position of Mawe in the Tupi linguistic stock - as a member of the Tupi-Guarani family or as another branch of the stock. The phonological comparison is made with the reconstructed phonemes of Proto-Tupi-Guarani and the correspondences found are presented in reference to the reconstructed Proto-Tupi phonemes. Since Mawe has been exposed during the last 300 years to contact with a Tupi-Guaranian language, Amazonian Lingua Geral, sure or probable loans of this language in Mawe are taken into account and not included in the search for cognate lexical items. 190 cognate pairs are established, most of them belonging to 'non-cultural' semantic domains. Several particular phonological issues are discussed as well as some cases of lexical differentiation, and in both cases other members of the Tupi stock are taken into consideration. An overview of the Proto-Tupi-Guarani verb morphology is presented as an introduction to a somewhat detailed comparison of Mawe and Tupi-Guaranian morphology. The conclusion points to the probability of Mawe having split from a Mawe/ Aweti/Tupi-Guarani branch of the Tupi stock before the dispersion of the Tupi-Guarani family as such. RÉSUMÉ Dans cet article les auteurs comparent les phonemes et les principaux traits morphologiques de la langue amazonienne mawe avec ceux des langues tupi-guaranies comme une contribution a la comprehension de la position du mawe dans le tronc linguistique tupi, soit comme un membre de la famille tupi-guarani, soit comme une autre branche du tronc. On compare les phonemes du mawe avec ceux du proto-tupi-guarani et on presente les correspondances trouvees a partir des phonemes reconstruits pour le proto-tupi. Puisque le mawe a ete expose pendant les trois derniers siecles au contact avec une langue tupi-guaranie, la 'lingua geral' amazonienne, les emprunts surs ou probables de cette langue sont consideres et exclus de la comparaison avec le proto-tupi-guarani. On a trouve 190 paires de correspondances lexicales, lesquelles appartiennent sourtout a des domaines semantiques 'non-culturels'. On discute plusieurs problemes phonologiques particuliers aussi bien que quelques cas de differentiation lexicale en prenant en consideration aussi d'autres membres du tronc tupi. Une synopse de la morphologie verbale proto-tupi-guaranie est presentee pour introduire la comparaison de la morphologie mawe, celle-ci faite avec assez de detail. En concluant on signale qu'il est probable que le mawe soit issu d'une branche mawe/aweti/tupi-guarani du tronc tupi avant la dispersion de la famille tupi-guaranie propre-ment dite. ZUSAMMENFASSUNG In vorliegendem Aufsatz vergleichen die Verfasser die Phoneme und die hauptsachlichen morphologischen Erscheinungen der amazonischen Sprache Mawe mit denjenigen der tupi-guaranitischen Sprachen mit der Absicht, zum Verstandnis der Stellung des Mawe innerhalb des Tupi-Sprachstammes, sei es als Mitglied der Tupi-Guarani-Familie, sei es als ein weiterer Zweig des Stammes, beizutragen. Die Phoneme des Mawe werden mit denjenigen des Proto-Tupi-Guarani verglichen und die gefundenen Entsprechungen in Bezug zu den rekonstruierten Phonemen des Proto-Tupi gesetzt. Da das Mawe wahrend der letzten dreihundert Jahre in Beruhrung mit einer Tupi-Guaraní-Sprache, der amazonischen Lingua Geral, gewesen ist, werden sowohl die sicheren als auch die vermutlichen Lehnworter aus dieser Sprache heraus-gefiltert und nicht fur die Vergleichung mit dem Proto-Tupi herangezogen. 190 lexikalische Entsprechungen, meistens aus 'nicht-kulturellen' Bedeutungs-bereichen, werden aufgefuhrt. Mehrere besondere phonologische Fragen und manche Falle lexikalischer Differenzierung werden besprochen, wobei andere Zweige des Tupi-Sprachstammes beriicksichtigt werden. Eine Ubersicht iiber die verbale Morphologie des Proto-Tupi-Guarani gilt als Einleitung zur Vergleichung der Morphologie des Mawe, die recht detailliert ausgefuhrt wird. Zum Schluß wird vorgeschlagen, daB das Mawe sich noch vor der Aus-gliederung der Tupi-Guarani-Sprachfamilie von einem zeitlich friiher anzuneh-menden Mawe/Aweti/Tupi-Guarani-Zweig des Tupi-Stammes getrennt hat.

Lexical Comprehension in Young Children With Developmental Delays

1994 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 79-88 ◽  
Author(s):  
Theresa A. Kouri
Keyword(s):  
Young Children ◽  
Developmental Delays ◽  
Normal Development ◽  
Clinical Applications ◽  
Group Status ◽  
Novel Object ◽  
Related Information ◽  
Comprehension Skills ◽  
Lexical Items ◽  
Lexical Concepts

Lexical comprehension skills were examined in 20 young children (aged 28–45 months) with developmental delays (DD) and 20 children (aged 19–34 months) with normal development (ND). Each was assigned to either a story-like script condition or a simple ostensive labeling condition in which the names of three novel object and action items were presented over two experimental sessions. During the experimental sessions, receptive knowledge of the lexical items was assessed through a series of target and generalization probes. Results indicated that all children, irrespective of group status, acquired more lexical concepts in the ostensive labeling condition than in the story narrative condition. Overall, both groups acquired more object than action words, although subjects with ND comprehended more action words than subjects with DD. More target than generalization items were also comprehended by both groups. It is concluded that young children’s comprehension of new lexical concepts is facilitated more by a context in which simple ostensive labels accompany the presentation of specific objects and actions than one in which objects and actions are surrounded by thematic and event-related information. Various clinical applications focusing on the lexical training of young children with DD are discussed.

Stolen from the Snows: John Kinsella as Poet and as Fiction Writer

CounterText ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 232-238
Author(s):  
Nicholas Birns
Keyword(s):  
Close Reading ◽  
Artistic Identity ◽  
Close Analysis ◽  
Fiction Writer

This piece explores the fiction of John Kinsella, describing how it both complements and differs from his poetry, and how it speaks to the various aspect of his literary and artistic identity, After delineating several characteristic traits of Kinsella's fictional oeuvre, and providing a close reading of one of Kinsella's Graphology poems to give a sense of his current lyrical praxis, the balance of the essay is devoted to a close analysis of Hotel Impossible, the Kinsella novella included in this issue of CounterText. In Hotel Impossible Kinsella examines the assets and liabilities of cosmopolitanism through the metaphor of the all-inclusive hotel that envelops humanity in its breadth but also constrains through its repressive, generalising conformity. Through the peregrinations of the anti-protagonist Pilgrim, as he works out his relationships with Sister and the Watchmaker, we see how relationships interact with contemporary institutions of power. In a style at once challenging and accessible, Kinsella presents a fractured mirror of our own reality.

ESP corpus design: compilation of the Veterinary Nursing Medical Chart Corpus and the Veterinary Nursing Wordlist

Corpora ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 125-140
Author(s):  
Yukiko Ohashi ◽  
Noriaki Katagiri ◽  
Katsutoshi Oka ◽  
Michiko Hanada
Keyword(s):  
Word List ◽  
English For Specific Purposes ◽  
Regular Expressions ◽  
Annotation Scheme ◽  
Corpus Design ◽  
As Species ◽  
Lexical Items ◽  
Access To Data ◽  
General Service

This paper reports on two research results: ( 1) designing an English for Specific Purposes (esp) corpus architecture complete with annotations structured by regular expressions; and ( 2) a case study to test the design to cater for creating a specific vocabulary list using the compiled corpus. The first half of this study involved designing a precisely structured esp corpus from 190 veterinary medical charts with a hierarchy of the data. The data hierarchy in the corpus consists of document types, outline elements and inline elements, such as species and breed. Perl scripts extracted the data attached to veterinary-specific categories, and the extraction led to creating wordlists. The second part of the research tested the corpus mode, creating a list of commonly observed lexical items in veterinary medicine. The coverage rate of the wordlists by General Service List (gsl) and Academic Word List (awl) was tested, with the result that 66.4 percent of all lexical items appeared in gsl and awl, whereas 33.7 percent appeared in none of those lists. The corpus compilation procedures as well as the annotation scheme introduced in this study enable the compilation of specific corpora with explicit annotations, allowing teachers to have access to data required for creating esp classroom materials.

‘Nothing is simply one thing’: Woolf, Deleuze and Difference

2013 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 456-474
Author(s):  
Beatrice Monaco
Keyword(s):  
Virginia Woolf ◽  
Prose Poetry ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
Similar Model ◽  
Complex Interplay ◽  
To The Lighthouse

This paper explores some key texts of Virginia Woolf in the context of Deleuzian concepts. Using a close reading style, it shows how the prose poetry in Mrs Dalloway engages a complex interplay of repetition and difference, resulting in a remarkably similar model of the three syntheses of time as Deleuze understands them. It subsequently explores Woolf's technical processes in a key passage from To the Lighthouse, showing how the prose-poetic technique systematically undoes the structures of logical fact and rationality inscribed in both language and everyday speech to an extremely precise level.

Resonance in Dhvani Aesthetics and the Deleuzian Logic of Sensation

2018 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-44
Author(s):  
Srajana Kaikini
Keyword(s):  
Art History ◽  
Visual Art ◽  
Normative Theory ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
Literary Interpretation ◽  
Sanskrit Poetics ◽  
Comparative Framework ◽  
Time Image

This paper undertakes an intersectional reading of visual art through theories of literary interpretation in Sanskrit poetics in close reading with Deleuze's notions of sensation. The concept of Dhvani – the Indian theory of suggestion which can be translated as resonance, as explored in the Rasa – Dhvani aesthetics offers key insights into understanding the mode in which sensation as discussed by Deleuze operates throughout his reflections on Francis Bacon's and Cézanne's works. The paper constructs a comparative framework to review modern and classical art history, mainly in the medium of painting, through an understanding of the concept of Dhvani, and charts a course of reinterpreting and examining possible points of concurrence and departure with respect to the Deleuzian logic of sensation and his notions of time-image and perception. The author thereby aims to move art interpretation's paradigm towards a non-linguistic sensory paradigm of experience. The focus of the paper is to break the moulds of normative theory-making which guide ideal conditions of ‘understanding art’ and look into alternative modes of experiencing the ‘vocabulary’ of art through trans-disciplinary intersections, in this case the disciplines being those of visual art, literature and phenomenology.

On the Primacy of Matter: Neoplatonism Right-Side Up

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tyler Tritten
Keyword(s):  
Close Reading ◽  
After Effect ◽  
The One

This chapter provides a close reading of Schelling’s early commentary on Plato’s Timaeus and then contrasts this reading with Neoplatonism’s, particularly Proclus’, understanding of this same text. While Neoplatonism views being according to a hierarchy of degradation or descent, with matter at the bottom, Schelling affirms that being potentiates itself into higher and greater degrees of order such that matter is not the last but the first. He is able to do this, however, only by rejecting the Platonic notion of participation. For Schelling, the participating acquires an independence from the participated so that an effect can be greater than its cause and, moreover, the effect exerts a retroactive after effect on the cause. The identity of a cause or antecedent is only constituted in and through its consequents. If matter is said to process from the One, then matter, in turn, is the consequent condition of the identity of the One as one rather than as many.

Transformation and Education in GDR Youth Literature: A Script Theory Approach

2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-82
Author(s):  
Jean E. Conacher
Keyword(s):  
Fairy Tale ◽  
Democratic Republic ◽  
Socialist Realism ◽  
National Literature ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
Theory Approach ◽  
Conceptual Blending ◽  
Script Theory ◽  
Cultural Policies ◽  
Youth Literature

Youth literature within the German Democratic Republic (GDR) officially enjoyed equal status with adult literature, with authors often writing for both audiences. Such parity of esteem pre-supposed that youth literature would also adopt the cultural–political frameworks designed to nurture the establishment of socialism on German soil. In their quest to forge a legitimate national literature capable of transforming the population, politicians and writers drew repeatedly upon the cultural heritage of Weimar classicism and the Bildungsroman, Humboldtian educational traditions and Soviet-inspired models of socialist realism. Adopting a script theory approach inspired by Jean Matter Mandler, this article explores how directive cultural policies lead to the emergence of multiple scripts which inform the nature and narrative of individual works. Three broad ideological scripts within GDR youth literature are identified which underpin four distinct narrative scripts employed by individual writers to support, challenge and ultimately subvert the primacy of the Bildungsroman genre. A close reading of works by Strittmatter, Pludra, Görlich, Tetzner and Saalmann reveals further how conceptual blending with classical and fairy-tale scripts is exploited to legitimise and at times mask critique of transformation and education inside and outside the classroom and to offer young protagonists a voice often denied their readers.

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