TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bartosz Pietrzak
PY  - 2022
CY  - Berlin, Germany
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
TI  - The Concept of Honor in the Language of Early Arabic Poetry
T2  - A Cultural Linguistic Study
N2  - The book presents an ethnolinguistic study on lexical expressions of honor in the Language of Early Arabic Poetry. It is the first application of Cultural-Linguistic methodology in research on the language and culture of al-Jahiliyya Arabs. Consequently, it is one of the first cultural cognitive linguistic studies on Classical Arabic semantics and lexicology. The book examines the use of Arabic honor-related lexis in the oral-formulaic pre-Islamic poetry, and interprets lexical expressions as encoding cultural conceptualizations: cognitive schemata and categories, and conceptual metaphors and metonymies. An exhaustive description of pre-Islamic Arabic cultural models of honor and social evaluation is offered alongside semantic frames for discourses of honor available to pre-Islamic Arabs.
KW  - Classical Arabic, pre-Islamic Arabs, Ethnolinguistics, Semantic Frame, Cognitive Schemata, Conceptual Metonymy
LA  - English
ER  -