Research Catalog

Title

Blessings, curses, hopes and fears : psycho-ostensive expressions in Yiddish / James A. Matisoff.

Author

Matisoff, James A.

Publication

Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, c2000.

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Details

Description

xxxi, 160 p.; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Contraversions--Jews and other differences

Uniform Title

Contraversions (Stanford, Calif.)

Subject

• Yiddish language > Psychological aspects
• Yiddish language > Terms and phrases
• Proverbs, Yiddish
• Blessing and cursing

Genre/Form

• dictionaries.
• Dictionaries
• Dictionnaires.

Note

• Originally published: Philadelphia : Institute for the Study of Human Issues, Inc., 1979.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 149-160).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1. Introduction -- 2. Semantic Subtypes of Psycho-Ostensive Expressions -- 3. Bono-Recognition: Thanks and Congratulations -- 4. Malo-Recognition: Lamentation and Sympathy -- 5. Petitive Attitudes -- 6. Bono-Petition -- 7. Malo-Fugition: Deliver Us from Evil! -- 8. Psycho-Ostensives Relating to the Dead -- 9. Allo-Malo-Petition: Curses! -- 10. Swearing Oaths -- 11. Conclusion and Commencement -- 12. 'Epes an Epilog': The Relevance of Yiddish Psycho-Ostensive to Recent and Future Work in Linguistics and Other Fields.

ISBN

• 0804733937 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 0804733945 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^99087973^

OCLC

• 42792039
• SCSB-10000360

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library