1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910792727803321

Titolo

What is moderate Islam? / / edited by Richard L. Benkin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, Maryland : , : Lexington Books, , 2017

℗2017

ISBN

1-4985-3743-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (254 pages) : illustrations

Disciplina

297.09051

Soggetti

Islam - 21st century

Muslims - Attitudes

Islamic fundamentalism - 21st century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Smoking out Islamists / Daniel Pipes -- Islamist extremism: threat to world peace / Kulbhushan Warikoo -- Wither moderate Islam: Malaysian style / Sunil Kukreja -- Is there a non-radical Islam? / Naseer Dashti -- An Islam that rejects Islamists: the case of the Baloch / Meerain Baloch -- The debate about radical versus non-radical Islam / Amitabh Tripathi -- Moderate Islam is an illusion; at least for now / Umar Duad Khattak -- Being Pakhtun: interview with a Muslim female living in exile / Richard L. Benkin and Anonymous -- Balochistan to the road of independence / Aziz Baloch -- South Asian Muslim attitudes towards Jews, Israel, and Zionism / Navras Jaat Aafreedi -- The myth of Bangladesh as a moderate Muslim nation / Richard L. Benkin.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910953817703321

Autore

Sinha Chris

Titolo

Ten lectures on language, culture and mind : cultural, developmental and evolutionary perspectives in cognitive linguistics / / by Chris Sinha

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden ; ; Boston : , : Brill, , [2017]

ISBN

9789004349094

900434909X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (367 pages)

Collana

Distinguished lectures in cognitive linguistics, , 2468-4872 ; ; 6

Disciplina

410.1/835

Soggetti

Language and culture

Cognitive grammar

Psycholinguistics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminary Material -- Language, Culture and Mind: Independence or Interdependence? -- The Psychological Roots of Cognitive Linguistics—and Beyond -- Meaning, Representation, Conceptualization -- From Signal to Symbol to System: The Emergence of Language -- Patterns of Mapping: Distributed Spatial Semantics, Cognitive Typology and Language Development -- Concept, Context and Extended Embodiment: Spatial Language and Cognitive Development -- Space, Time, Semiosis and Cognitive Artefacts: Evidence from an Amazonian Culture and Language -- Participation, Practice and Cultural Learning: Children’s Play as Acts of Meaning -- Language as a Biocultural Niche and Social Institution -- Beyond Subjectivism and Objectivism: Realism, Relativism and Representation -- Important Resources for Cognitive Linguistics -- Appendix.

Sommario/riassunto

In this interdisciplinary collection of lectures, Chris Sinha presents an overview of topics ranging from language in children’s play, through cultural conceptualizations of time, to philosophical and linguistic relativism. The intertwining of the evolutionary and individual time scales of human development is a key theme unifying the lectures, as is the fundamentally cultural nature of language and cognition. Familiar topics in cognitive linguistics, such as spatial semantics and conceptual



blending, are addressed from these cultural, comparative and developmental perspectives. Chris Sinha also discusses the psychological roots of key concepts in cognitive linguistics, and sets out a biocultural approach to language evolution.