Aus unseren Neuerwerbungen – Sprachen und Kulturen Asiens, Afrikas und Ozeaniens 2020.2

The Devel­op­ment of Tropes in Ara­bic Wine Poet­ry Up to the 12th Cen­tu­ry Ad
This book explores the the­o­ry of the evo­lu­tion of poet­ic imagery as devel­oped by Joseph Sadan, show­ing how metaphors were tak­en over by one poet from anoth­er on the basis of exist­ing stores of imagery. It fol­lows the devel­op­ment of the wine imagery used by poets from pre-Islam­ic times until the days of Abo Nuwas. It deals with how metaphors, espe­cial­ly those used to describe the ves­sels asso­ci­at­ed with wine, such as jugs, cups, wine skins and oth­ers, evolved over time, and how poets took the imagery used by their pre­de­ces­sors and built on them to cre­ate new metaphors.
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Sinog­ra­phy: the bor­row­ing and adap­ta­tion of the Chi­nese script
In the more than 3,000 years since its inven­tion, the Chi­nese script has been adapt­ed many times to write lan­guages oth­er than Chi­nese, includ­ing Kore­an, Viet­namese, Japan­ese, and Zhuang. In Sinog­ra­phy: The Bor­row­ing and Adap­ta­tion of the Chi­nese Script, Zev Han­del pro­vides a com­pre­hen­sive analy­sis of how the struc­tur­al fea­tures of these lan­guages con­strained and moti­vat­ed meth­ods of script adap­ta­tion. This com­par­a­tive study reveals the uni­ver­sal prin­ci­ples at work in the bor­row­ing of logo­graph­ic scripts. By ana­lyz­ing and explain­ing these prin­ci­ples, Han­del advances our under­stand­ing of how ear­ly writ­ing sys­tems have func­tioned and spread, pro­vid­ing a new frame­work that can be applied to the his­to­ry of scripts beyond East Asia, such as Sumer­ian and Akka­di­an cuneiform.
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