Research Catalog

Title

Persian and Arabic riddles; a language-centered approach to genre definition, by Charles T. Scott.

Author

Scott, Charles T.

Publication

Bloomington, Indiana University, 1965.

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Description

vii, 135 p.; 26 cm.

Series Statement

• International journal of American linguistics ; v. 31, no. 4, pt. 2
• Publication ... of the Indiana University Research Center in Anthropology, Folklore, and Linguistics ; 39

Uniform Title

• International journal of American linguistics ; v. 31, no. 4, pt. 2.
• Publication ... of the Indiana University Research Center in Anthropology, Folklore, and Linguistics 39.

Subject

• Riddles, Persian
• Riddles, Arabic

Note

• Revision of thesis, University of Texas.

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. 132-135.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction -- Linguistics and the study of literature -- Stylistic structures -- Typological classification of genres -- The riddle as a test genre -- Summary and conclusion -- Definitions and the structural study of the riddle -- Some definitions of the riddle -- The structural study of riddles -- Analysis of Teheran Persian riddles -- Analysis of Afghan Persian riddles -- Analysis of Riyadh Arabic riddles -- General characteristics and conclusions -- Preliminary observations -- Principal characteristics of the tagmemic model -- The grammatical hierarchy -- The characteristic of binary construction -- The characteristic of semantic fit -- Tentative definition of the riddle genre -- Further conclusions

LCCN

^^^65064516^

OCLC

• 342304
• SCSB-12049433

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