Linguistic landscape [[electronic resource] ] : new approach to multilingualism / / edited by Durk Gorter

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910450981103321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Clevedon, [England] ; ; Buffalo, : Multilingual Matters, c2006
• ISBN: 1-280-52177-5; 9786610521777; 1-85359-917-4
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (95 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): GorterD (Durk)
• Disciplina: 306.44/6
• Soggetti: Multilingualism; Linguistic change; Linguistic minorities; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Introduction: The Study of the Linguistic Landscape as a New Approach to Multilingualism -- Linguistic Landscape as Symbolic Construction of the Public Space: The Case of Israel -- Bangkok’s Linguistic Landscapes: Environmental Print, Codemixing and Language Change -- Multilingualism in Tokyo: A Look into the Linguistic Landscape -- Linguistic Landscape and Minority Languages -- Further Possibilities for Linguistic Landscape Research -- References
• Sommario/riassunto: Language is all around us as it is displayed in texts on shop windows, commercial signs, posters, official notices, etc. Given a multitude of languages there, it does not come as a surprise that an increasing number of researchers have taken a closer look at languages on signs in the public space. The book reports on studies of the linguistic landscape in cities in countries around the globe: Israel, Japan, Thailand, the Netherlands (Friesland) and Spain (the Basque Country). Their cultural, socio-economic and political circumstances are very divergent. Multimillion cities are included such as Bangkok and Tokyo, but also smaller cities such as Ljouwert-Leeuwarden and Donostia-San ; Sebastian. Multilingualism turns out to be an important dimension of the linguistic landscape everywhere, as well as the reflection of the process of globalisation, visible through the use of English. The study of the linguistic landscape is applied here as a means to increase our understanding of multilingualism and future directions are outlined.

Christian doctrines in Islamic theology [[electronic resource] /] / by David Thomas

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910778688903321
• Autore: Thomas David (David Richard), <1948->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill, 2008
• ISBN: 1-282-39957-8; 9786612399572; 90-474-4205-9
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (400 p.)
• Collana: History of Christian-Muslim relations, , 1570-7350 ; ; v. 10
• Disciplina: 297.2/93
• Soggetti: Islam - Relations - Christianity; Christianity and other religions - Islam; Christianity - Influence
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [379]-383) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Muslim theologians and Christian doctrines -- Al-Nāshiʼ al-Akbar -- Abū Manṣūr al-Māturīdī -- Abū Bakr al-Bāqillānī -- ʻAbd al-Jabbār ibn Aḥmad al-Hamadhāni.
• Sommario/riassunto: By the tenth century Islamic theology had become an integrated system by which theologians constructed sophisticated accounts of the nature of the world and God's relationship with it. They also used it to establish proofs that Islam was the only rationally tenable form of belief, building these in part on proofs of the illogicalities in other faiths, including Christianity. Through excerpts from key works of the theologians al-Nashi' al-Akbar, al-Maturidi, al-Baqillani and ʿAbd al-Jabbar, this book shows how Muslim theologians in this period made use of Christian doctrines as examples of misguided thinking to help ; confirm the correctness of their own theology, and how among Muslim theologians Christianity had ceased to attract serious attention as a rival to Islam.