{"product_id":"plurilingualism-in-traditional-eurasian-scholarship-thinking-in-many-tongues-9789004464667","title":"Plurilingualism in Traditional Eurasian Scholarship: Thinking in Many Tongues","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWas plurilingualism the exception or the norm in traditional Eurasian scholarship? This volume presents a selection of primary sources—in many cases translated into English for the first time—with introductions that provide fascinating historical materials for challenging notions of the ways in which traditional Eurasian scholars dealt with plurilingualism and monolingualism. Comparative in approach, global in scope, and historical in orientation, it engages with the growing discussion of plurilingualism and focuses on fundamental scholarly practices in various premodern and early modern societies—Chinese, Indian, Mesopotamian, Jewish, Islamic, Ancient Greek, and Roman—asking how these were conceived by the agents themselves. The volume will be an indispensable resource for courses on these subjects and on the history of scholarship and reflection on language throughout the world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Illustrations  Notes on Contributors    Introduction   Glenn W. Most, Dagmar Schäfer and Michele Loporcaro    Part 1 Language Diversity    1.1 Introduction   Glenn W. Most    1.2 The Tower of Babel (Genesis 11:1–9)   Joel S. Baden    1.3 A 5th-Century BCE Greek Historian Discusses the Pelasgians and the Origins of the Greek Language   Herodotus, Histories   Filippomaria Pontani    1.4 Language Arose from Spontaneous Feelings and Reactions to Nature   The Doctrine of Epicurus (4th Century BCE) and Lucretius (1st Century BCE)   Filippomaria Pontani    1.5 Language Diversity Is a Result of Social Interaction   Xunzi’s View on Plurilingualism in 3rd-Century BCE China   Dagmar Schäfer    1.6 Language Is a Collective Product of Mankind   Diodorus of Sicily, Library of History (1st Century BCE)   Filippomaria Pontani    1.7 A 1st-Century BCE\/CE Greek Geographer Discusses What a “Barbarian” Language Is in Terms of Homer and the Carians   Strabo, Geography   Filippomaria Pontani    1.8 Plurilingualism in China and Inner Asia in the 12th Century CE   “Khitan Reciting Poetry”   Mårten Söderblom Saarela    Part 2 Etymology    2.1 Introduction   Glenn W. Most, Dagmar Schäfer and Michele Loporcaro    2.2 An Early Post-Vedic Treatise on the Etymological Explanation of Words   Yāska, Etymology   Johannes Bronkhorst    2.3 A 4th-Century BCE Greek Philosophical Analysis of the Methods and Limits of Etymology   Plato, Cratylus   Glenn W. Most    2.4 A 1st-Century BCE Roman Polymath’s Explanation of the Mysteries of Latin   Varro, On the Latin Language   Glenn W. Most and Michele Loporcaro    2.5 A 1st-Century CE Stoic Etymological and Allegorical Explanation of Greek Gods   Cornutus, Compendium of Greek Theology   Glenn W. Most    2.6 Zheng Xuan and Commentarial Etymology (2nd Century CE)   Dagmar Schäfer    2.7 Etymology in the Most Important Reference Encyclopedia of Late Antiquity (ca. 600 CE)   Isidore of Seville, Etymologies   Michele Loporcaro and Glenn W. Most    2.8 Buddhist Etymologies from First-Millennium India and China   Works by Vasubandhu, Sthiramati and Paramārtha   Roy Tzohar    2.9 An Influential Latin Dictionary and Its Etymologies (12th Century CE) in the Linguistic Landscape of Medieval Europe   Hugutio of Pisa’s Derivationes   Michele Loporcaro    Part 3 Lexicography    3.1 Introduction   Mårten Söderblom Saarela    3.2 Lexicality and Lexicons from Mesopotamia   Markham J. Geller    3.3 Translating Oriental Words into Greek   A Papyrus Glossary from the 1st Century CE   Filippomaria Pontani    3.4 The Making of Monolingual Dictionaries   The Prefaces to the Lexica of Hesychius (6th Century CE) and Photius (9th Century CE)   Filippomaria Pontani    3.5 A 10th-Century CE Byzantine Encyclopedia and Lexicon   Suda, Letter Sigma   Glenn W. Most    3.6 A Dictionary of the Imperial Capital   Shen Qiliang’s Da Qing quanshu (1683)   Mårten Söderblom Saarela    Part 4 Translation    4.1 Introduction   Dagmar Schäfer and Markham J. Geller    4.2 Translators of Sumerian   The Unsung Heroes of Babylonian Scholarship   Markham J. Geller    4.3 The Earliest and Most Complete Story of the Translation of the Pentateuch into Greek (2nd Century BCE)   The Letter of Aristeas   Benjamin G. Wright III    4.4 “Faithful” and “Unfaithful” Translations   The Greco-Latin Tradition in Jerome’s Letter to Pammachius (395\/396 CE)   Filippomaria Pontani    4.5 A 4th-Century CE Buddhist Note on Sanskrit-Chinese Translation   Dao’an’s Preface to the Abridgement of the Mahāprajñāpāramitā Sūtra   Bill M. Mak    4.6 An 8th-Century CE Indian Astronomical Treatise in Chinese   The Nine Seizers Canon by Qutan Xida   Bill M. Mak    4.7 Two 8th-Century CE Recensions of Amoghavajra’s Buddhist Astral Compendium, Treatise on Lunar Mansions and Planets   Bill M. Mak    4.8 Arabic and Arabo-Latin Translations of Euclid’s Elements   Sonja Brentjes    Part 5 Writing Systems    5.1 Introduction   Dagmar Schäfer, Markham J. Geller and Glenn W. Most    5.2 A 4th-Century BCE Greek Philosophical Myth about the Egyptian Origins of Writing   Plato, Phaedrus   Glenn W. Most    5.3 A Buddhist Mahāyāna Account of the Coming into Being of Language   The Descent into Laṅkā Scripture (Laṅkāvatārasūtra)   Roy Tzohar    5.4 Stories of Origin   Ibn al-Nadīm, Kitāb al-Fihrist   Sonja Brentjes    5.5 Inventing or Adapting Scripts in Inner Asia   The Jin and Yuan Histories and the Early Manchu Veritable Records Juxtaposed (1340s–1630s)   Mårten Söderblom Saarela    5.6 An Essay on the Use of Chinese and Korean Language in Late 18th-Century CE Chosŏn   Yu Tŭkkong, “Hyang’ŏ pan, Hwaŏ pan”   Mårten Söderblom Saarela    Index","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210823983447,"sku":"9789004464667","price":143.2,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/plurilingualism-in-traditional-eurasian-scholarship-thinking-in-many-tongues-9789004464667","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}