Glossing Practice - Comparative Perspectives

This volume presents a comparative approach to textual glossing practices in both the West and East Asia, looking for evidence of historical and cultural continuity in this wide-spread practice.

List of contents

I. Comparative Glossing Practice
1. Continuity and Discontinuity: Glossing as a Dynamic System
2. The Five Services of Sanskrit Commentaries and Diomedes' Grammar Program
II. Glosses as Tools for Access to Knowledge
3. Glossing Glosses: Methods for Transcribing and Glossing Japanese kundoku Texts
4. Issues in Dictionaries Recording Kunten Glosses
5. Interconnecting Knowledge in Early Medieval Glosses
6. Auraicept na nÉces and the Art of Medicine
III. Glosses and Linguistics
7. Dry-point Grammatical Glosses
8. The Pragmatics of Paratextual Paraphernalia
9. A Revised Typology for the St Gall Priscian Glosses
10. Glossing Practices in 1850-1911: Descriptions of Languages with Complex Verbal Morphology

About the author

Franck Cinato is full-time researcher at the French National Centre for Scientific Research.
Aimée Lahaussois is a linguist at the French National Centre for Scientific Research.
John B. Whitman is professor of linguistics at Cornell University and the Department of Crosslinguistic Studies at the National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics.

Product details

• Authors: Franck Lahaussois Cinato
• Assisted by: Aimée Lahaussois (Editor), Franck Cinato (Editor), Franck Cinato (Editor), John B Whitman (Editor), Aimée Lahaussois (Editor), John B. Whitman (Editor)
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 21.12.2024
• EAN: 9781793612823
• ISBN: 978-1-79361-282-3
• No. of pages: 272
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Japan, Europe, European History, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Semantics, HISTORY / Asia / Japan, Medieval History, Asian History, European history: medieval period, middle ages, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, HISTORY / Europe / Medieval, Semantics, discourse analysis, etc