Aus unseren Neuerwerbungen – Sprachen und Kulturen Asiens, Afrikas und Ozeaniens 2025.4

The Rout­ledge Hand­book of Asian Lin­guis­tics
The Rout­ledge Hand­book of Asian Lin­guis­tics pro­vides a com­pre­hen­sive overview of the ways in which Asian lan­guages should be con­cep­tu­al­ized as a whole, the dis­tinct char­ac­ter­is­tics of each lan­guage group, and the rela­tion­ships and results of inter­ac­tions between the lan­guages and lan­guage fam­i­lies in Asia.
Asia is the largest and the most pop­u­lous con­ti­nent on Earth, and the site of many of the first civ­i­liza­tions. This Hand­book aims to pro­vide a sys­tem­at­ic overview of Asian lan­guages in both the­o­ret­i­cal and func­tion­al per­spec­tives, opti­mal­ly com­bin­ing the two in inter­cul­tur­al set­tings. In oth­er words, the text will pro­vide a ref­er­ence for researchers of indi­vid­ual Asian lan­guages or lan­guage groups against the back­ground of the entire range of Asian lan­guages.
Not only does the Hand­book act as a ref­er­ence to a par­tic­u­lar lan­guage, it also con­nects each lan­guage to oth­er Asian lan­guages in the per­spec­tive of the entire Asian con­ti­nent. Cul­tur­al roles and com­mu­nica­tive func­tions of lan­guage are also empha­sized as an impor­tant domain where the var­i­ous Asian lan­guages inter­act and shape each oth­er. With exten­sive cov­er­age of both the­o­ret­i­cal and applied lin­guis­tic top­ics, The Rout­ledge Hand­book of Asian Lin­guis­tics is an indis­pens­able resource for stu­dents and researchers work­ing in this area.
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Gen­der and friend­ship in Chi­nese lit­er­a­ture
Can­vas­ing a range of mate­ri­als that include ear­ly tales of exem­plar­i­ty, medieval song lyrics, Ming-Qing poet­ry and plucked rhymes, twen­ti­eth cen­tu­ry writ­ings about rev­o­lu­tion­ar­ies, opera stars, mis­sion­ar­ies, and con­tem­po­rary fic­tion, this vol­ume illus­trates the dis­course and rep­re­sen­ta­tion of friend­ship in which women gain agency and par­tic­i­pate in broad­er argu­ments about ethics, pol­i­tics, and reli­gious tran­scen­dence. Friend­ship prompts reflec­tions on gen­der roles, becomes the venue of lit­er­ary self-con­scious­ness, and height­ens the sense of lit­er­ary com­mu­ni­ty. Gen­der and com­mu­ni­ty func­tion in new ways through the pub­lic dimen­sion of friend­ship, and most impor­tant­ly, the inter­sec­tions of gen­der and friend­ship enable us to rethink oth­er rela­tion­ships.
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