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CLASSIFIERS IN BENGALI

Anna Rácová

Asian and African Studies > 2007 > 16 > 2 > 125 - 137

Classifiers are affixes that categorize entities into common classes on the basis of shared properties. They are characteristic features of many Asian, American, and African languages. Though typically not occurring in Indo-European languages, they can be found in the Eastern group of New Indo-Aryan languages, namely Assamese, Oriya and Bengali. Emaneau pointed out that they probably started to be...

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TERMINOLOGICAL MODELING IN SABBAG'S RISALA (1812)

Ladislav Drozdík

Asian and African Studies > 2007 > 16 > 2 > 186 - 204

The study examines the duality of verbal and iconic terminological strategies, the former exclusively based on lexical naming (verbal definition), the latter on the shared action of lexical naming and pattern imposing (visualizing). Terms resulting from the joint strategy of naming and visualizing operate as terminological models. Terminological units involving any type of iconic features, are referred...

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THE FATE OF THE CAESAREAN OPERATION - AN EPISODE IN MARQUESAN ORAL LITERATURE

Viktor Krupa

Asian and African Studies > 2007 > 16 > 2 > 138 - 146

Polynesian mythology is notable for several brief allusions to what is usually termed Caesarean birth. The sense of this operation does not consist in saving both mother and child but seems to be provoked by unsatisfactory knowledge of the operation that preferred the life of a newborn child at the expense of that of its mother. According to the legend, the innovation seems to have been brought from...

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THE FIRST YEAR AFTER THE IRAQI REVOLUTION - cABDALKARIM QASIM BETWEEN COMMUNISTS AND NATIONALISTS

Karol R. Sorby

Asian and African Studies > 2007 > 16 > 2 > 205 - 228

During the first year after the Revolution the Iraqi Communist Party and its front organizations were gaining strength and popularity so that the party was able to command the streets of Baghdad. The ICP interpreted the events as a bourgeois democratic revolution and demanded the creation of bourgeois democratic institutions and a functioning parliamentary system. In this phase the nationalists lost...

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THE DOG AS A METAPHOR OF SYMBOL IN CHINESE POPULAR PHRASEOLOGY

Henrieta Hatalová

Asian and African Studies > 2007 > 16 > 2 > 161 - 185

The current article is an attempt to examine the Chinese popular phraseology with dog motifs from the point of view of how Chinese proverbs and sayings make use of the motif mentioned as a) - a metaphor or b) - a phraseological symbol. Between the symbolics of the dog in Chinese traditional and popular culture there is sometimes a significant difference, the dog as a symbol in phraseology can be classified...

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ON THE LYRIC(AL)NESS IN THE SINO-JAPANESE INTERLITERARY PROCESS: MUSINGS AFTER READING KOKINSHU PREFACES

Marián Gálik

Asian and African Studies > 2007 > 16 > 2 > 147 - 160

The aim of this essay is to show the lyric(al)ness of Japanese poetry of the Heian era (794-1192) and its similar and different features in comparison with Chinese poetry of the Six Dynasties (420-580), especially from its late period. The examples are taken from the Japanese collection 'Kokinshu' (A collection of poems ancient and modern) and from the Chinese collection 'Yutai xinyong' (The new songs...

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AN ANCIENT EGYPTIAN STATUETTE FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION IN BRATISLAVA

Dušan Magdolen

Asian and African Studies > 2007 > 16 > 2 > 229 - 248

The basic characteristics of the ancient Egyptian statuette from a private collection in Bratislava are described in this paper from the point of view of typology, iconography and epigraphy. In this connection related problems are discussed including reconstruction of the damaged inscription, its contents, translation and meaning, as well as the name of the statuette's owner, dating and so on. Moreover,...

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CHRISTIAN MISSIONS IN AFRICA AND THEIR ROLE IN THE TRANSFORMATION OF AFRICAN SOCIETIES

Viera Pavliková-Vilhanová

Asian and African Studies > 2007 > 16 > 2 > 249 - 260

The third phase of the missionary movement in Africa, which started from the end of the eighteenth and continued throughout the nineteenth century, in twentieth-century Africa led to the dramatic expansion of Christianity called 'the fourth great age of Christian expansion'. In their attempt to spread the Christian faith, win converts and transform African societies, Christian missions of all denominations...

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AFRICAN LANGUAGES (1)
ANCIENT EGYPTIAN STATUETTE (1)
ANIMALS (1)
AUTHENTICITY (1)
BENGALI LANGUAGE (1)
CABDALKARIM QASIM LEADERSHIP (1)
CAESAREAN OPERATION IN POLYNESIA (1)
CHINESE POPULAR LITERATURE & CULTURE (1)
CHRISTIAN MISSIONS (1)
CHRISTIANITY IN AFRICA (1)
CLASSIFIERS (1)
COLLOQUIAL ARABIC (CA) (1)
DOG MOTIFS (1)
ICONIC TERMS (1)
ICONOGRAPHY (1)
INTERLITERARY PROCESS (1)
INVESTIGATION (1)
IRAQ (1)
IRAQI COMMUNIST PARTY (1)
IRAQI NATIONALISTS (1)
JAPANESE POETRY (1)
KAE (1)
KI NO TSURAYUKI (1)
KOKINSHU (1)
LEXICAL NAMING (1)
LYRIC(AL)NESS (1)
MARQUESAS (1)
MISSIONARY EDUCATION (1)
NUMERAL CLASSIFIERS (1)
ORAL LITERATURE (1)
PATERN BASED ICONICITY (1)
PATTERN (1)
PHRASEOLOGY (1)
POLYNESIAN MYTOLOGY (1)
POSTREVOLUTIONARY IRAQ (1)
RECONSTRUCTION (1)
STANDARD ARABIC (SA) (1)
SYMBOLICS (1)
TERMINOLOGICAL MODEL (1)
TEXTS ANALYSES (1)
TRANSFORMATION OF AFRICAN SOCIETES (1)
USHABTI (1)
XIAO GANG (1)
YUTAI XINYONG (1)
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