1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910455149803321

Autore

Goodman Lenn Evan <1944-, >

Titolo

Avicenna / / Lenn E. Goodman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1992

ISBN

1-134-97779-4

1-134-97780-8

1-280-55582-3

9786610555826

0-203-02662-4

0-415-24575-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (254 p.)

Collana

Arabic thought and culture

Disciplina

181/.5

Soggetti

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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; AVICENNA; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; List of abbreviations; 1 LIFE, TIMES, WRITINGS; 1 Setting the Scene; 2 Ibn Sīnā's Youth and Education; 3 Wanderjahre; 4 The Years at Isfahān; 2 METAPHYSICS; 1 Contingency and Necessity; 2 Ibn Sīnā's Synthesis; 3 Criticism and Response; 3 IDEAS AND IMMORTALITY; 1 The Possibility of Knowledge; 2 The Substance of the Soul; 3 The Substrate of Immortality; 4 LOGIC, PERSUASION, AND POETRY; 1 Avicenna's Propositional Logic; 2 Avicenna on the Art of Persuasion; 3 Avicenna's Poetics; Index

Sommario/riassunto

the philosophers in the West, none, perhaps, is better known by name and less familiar in actual content of his ideas than the medieval Muslim philosopher, physician, minister and naturalist Abu Ali Ibn Sina, known since the days of the scholastics as Avicenna. In this book the author, himself a philosopher, and long known for his studies of Arabic thought, presents a factual account of Avicenna's philosophy. Setting the thinker in the context of his often turbulent times and tracing the roots and influences of Avicenna's ideas, this book offers a factual philosophical portrait. It details



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910797625003321

Titolo

Courses on speech prosody / / edited by Alexsandro Rodrigues Meireles

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Newcastle upon Tyne, England : , : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

1-4438-8297-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (203 p.)

Disciplina

414.6

Soggetti

Prosodic analysis (Linguistics)

Language arts - Brazil

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 at the end of each chapters.

Sommario/riassunto

In recent years, speech prosody research in Brazil has grown significantly, mainly due to a series of events organized through the support of the Brazilian government. The two most important of these events are the biennial Brazilian Colloquium on Speech Prosody and School of Prosody, both of which attract a number of prominent Brazilian and international researchers.Due to the success of the 1st Brazilian Colloquium on Speech Prosody, the Luso-Brazilian Association of Speech Sciences (LBASS) was created in 2007 to support the organization of the Speech Prosody 2008 Conference, which was held