Syriac Symposium and Christian Arabic Conference, 16-21 July 2012

Monday, November 22, 2010

This sounds like an excellent conference- time to start planning and saving :-)
http://www.propylaeum.de/index.php?id=390
Syriac Symposium and Christian Arabic Conference, 16-21 July 2012

The Committee of the Syriac Symposium and the Christian Arabic
Conference, the Aram Society for Syro-Mesopotamian Studies, the
Department of Arabic and Near Eastern Studies (University of Malta),
in collaboration with the Faculty of Theology (University of Malta)
announce the XIth Symposium Syriacum (16-18 July 2012) and IXth
Conference on Christian Arabic Studies (19-21 July 2012) to be held at
the University of Malta, Valletta, Malta.

Cognitive metaphor

Saturday, November 13, 2010

So much of the idea of struggle/agona/jihad is metaphorical, that I think I need to learn more cognitive linguistics. Some of the more interesting sites I've found include: http://www.topoi.org/index.php and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_poetics. A great book I'm reading is Peter Stockwell's "Cognitive Poetics: An Introduction".