Signless signification in ancient India and beyond / edited by Tiziana Pontillo and Maria Piera Candotti.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Pontillo, Tiziana, editor.

Candotti, Maria Piera, editor.

Lachs-Adler Family Endowed Fund for Collection Development.

Series:

Cultural, historical, and textual studies of South Asian religions

Cultural, historical and textual studies of South Asian religions

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Historical linguistics--Asia.

Historical linguistics.

Indo-Aryan languages--Grammar.

Indo-Aryan languages.

Asia.

Physical Description:

287 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

London : Anthem Press, 2013.

Summary:

The collected essays in Signless Signification in Ancient India and Beyond are the result of a series of workshops held at the University of Cagliari in Italy. In this work, the authors aim at reconstructing the evolution of a key concept of traditional Indian grammar: Panini's zero. The book investigates how certain patterns of description account for exceptions in the currently presupposed one-to-one symmetry between the semantic and the phono-morphological level of language. This work also deals with some powerful mechanisms of rule extension, which are valuable for different contexts of rule arrangement, such as the ritual model. The interpretative model laid down in the introduction proves strong and suggestive enough to allow subsequent articles in the book to make incursions into other traditions and cultures. The potentialities of aniconic expression in the artistic field are explored, together with the outcomes of this theory. Book jacket.

Contents:

Much ado about nothing : unsystematic notes on śūnya / Alberto Pelissero

When one thing applies more than once : tantra and prasaṅga in Śrautasūtra, Mīmāṃsā and grammar / Elisa Freschi, Tiziana Pontillo

The earlier Pāṇinian tradition on the imperceptible sign / Maria Piera Candotti, Tiziana Pontillo

The infinite possibilities of life : interpretations of the śūnyatā in the thinking of Daisaku Ikeda / Paolo Corda

Presences and absences in Indian visual arts : ideologies and events / Cinzia Pieruccini

Rethinking the question of images (aniconism vs. iconism) in the Indian history of art / Mimma Congedo, Paola M. Rossi

Denotation in absentia in literary language : the case of Aristophanic comedy / Patrizia Mureddu

The birth of the Buddha in the early Buddhist art schools / Ruben Fais

Untranslatable denotations : notes on music meaning through cultures / Prema Bhat, Paolo Bravi, Ignazio Macchiarella.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Lachs-Adler Family Endowed Fund for Collection Development.

ISBN:

0857283154

9780857283153

OCLC:

820123216

Publisher Number:

99954855972