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Author(s): S. La Porta, D. Shulman
ISBN(s): 9789004158108, 9004158103
Edition: illustrated edition
File Details: PDF, 3.80 MB
Year: 2007
Language: english
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Author: S. La Porta, D. Shulman

This book examines the seemingly universal notion of a grammatical cosmos. Individual essays discuss how many of the great civilizations provide cognitive maps that emerge from a metaphysical linguistics in which sounds, syllables and other signs form the constructive elements of reality. The essays address cross-cultural issues such as: Why does grammar serve as a template in these cultures? How are such templates culturally contoured? To what end are they applied — i.e., what can one do with grammar — , and how does it work upon the world? The book is divided into three sections that deal with the metaphysics of linguistic creation; practices of encoding and decoding as a means of deciphering reality; and language in the widest sense as a medium for self- and cultural transformation.

Table of contents: 

  1. Preliminary Materials

  2. Introduction – S. La Porta and D. Shulman

  3. Creation Through Hieroglyphs: The Cosmic Grammatology of Ancient Egypt – Jan Assmann

  4. Kun – The Existence-Bestowing Word in Islamic Mysticism: A Survey of Texts on the Creative Power of Language – Sara Sviri

  5. Adam’s Naming of the Animals: Naming or Creation? – Michael E. Stone

  6. Greek Distrust of Language – Margalit Finkelberg

  7. This Is No Lotus, It Is a Face: Poetics as Grammar in Daṇḍin’s Investigation of the Simile – Yigal Bronner

  8. The Performance of Writing in Western Zhou China – Martin Kern

  9. Counseling Through Enigmas: Monastic Leadership and Linguistic Techniques in Sixth-Century Gaza – Brouria Bitton-Ashkelony

  10. Devotional, Covenantal, and Yogic: Three Episodes in the Religious Use of Alphabet and Letter from a Millennium of Great Vehicle Buddhism – Dan Martin

  11. Powers of Language in Kabbalah: Comparative Reflections – Jonathan Garb

  12. The Poetics of Grammar in the Javano-Balinese Tradition – Thomas M. Hunter

  13. How to Bring a Goddess into Being Through Visible Sound – David Shulman

  14. Translation and Transformation: Armenian Meditations on the Metamorphic Power of Language – Sergio La Porta

  15. Index of Names – S. La Porta and D. Shulman

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