Cursing the Beloved and Uglifying the Beautiful: Disguised Praise in Medieval Arabic Philology
This work explores the phenomenon of disguised praise through the prism of medieval Arabic philology, via the philologists’ accounts of cases in which a speaker chooses an apparently negative wording to refer to things perceived as positive, by him and/or by others. The main categories of cases that...
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| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2021
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Journal of Semitic studies
Year: 2021, Volume: 66, Issue: 2, Pages: 523-552 |
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