Precedents
Alexander Key
Chapter from the book: Key, A. 2018. Language between God and the Poets: Maʿnā in the Eleventh Century.
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Chapter from the book: Key, A. 2018. Language between God and the Poets: Maʿnā in the Eleventh Century.
This chapter surveys the conceptual landscape prior to the eleventh-century and asks what precedents were available for the use of the word maʿnā. As part of a shared core conceptual vocabulary, maʿnā was used in stable and predictable ways to translate multiple Greek words, label multiple disciplines and genres, and curate various controversies and disagreements.
Key, A. 2018. Precedents. In: Key, A, Language between God and the Poets. California: University of California Press. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1525/luminos.54.c
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Published on Aug. 28, 2018