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Endurance : speaking Kurdish in a warped world / by Alex Pillen.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pillen, Alex, author.
- Series:
- Brill Kurdish studies ; volume 1
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Kurdish language--England--London--Spoken Kurdish.
- Kurdish language.
- Kurdish language--Social aspects--England--London.
- Language and culture.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xii, 228 pages) : illustrations, maps.
- Other Title:
- Speaking Kurdish in a warped world
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2024]
- Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- List of Figures
- List of Transcripts
- Note on the Kurdish Alphabet (Kurmanji)
- 1 Waking Up
- Alone
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Speaking Kurdish
- 3 A Living Dictionary
- 4 Approach
- 5 Chapter Outline
- 2 Reality's Linguistic Shape
- Evidential Texture
- 2 The Face of Cruelty
- 3 Evidential Finesse
- 4 A Mood Too
- 5 The Confirmation of Reality
- 3 Precision and Autonymy
- Direct Quotation
- 2 Quotation
- 3 Rhythmic Flow
- 4 Subtle Patterns
- 5 Autonymy
- 6 On Exactitude
- 4 Like I Say
- Often
- 2 Words That Only Go Half-Way
- 3 Like I Say
- 4 Solidity
- 5 Lived Uniqueness
- 5 A Space Of One's Own In Language
- The Reflexive Pronoun
- 2 What Belongs to Oneself
- 3 A Sense of Self, Respect and the Divine
- 4 A Space of One's Own
- 6 A Pronoun's Shadow
- Being Genuine Without Name
- 2 Segmentary Resonance
- 3 Xwe 's Shadow
- 4 The Ban on X and W
- 7 Acoustic Ambiguity
- The Intonation Of Painful Injustice
- 2 Mournful Tones
- 3 An Invitation to Listen
- 4 Tonal Intertextuality
- 5 Coda
- 8 The Endurance Of Second-Hand Reality
- Conclusion
- 2 Enduring Keynotes
- 3 Second-Hand
- 4 Singularity
- Bibliography
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Leiden, Netherlands Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 17, 2025).
- Other Format:
- Print version: Pillen, Alex. Endurance
- ISBN:
- 9789004709676
- 9004709673
- Publisher Number:
- 40032611176
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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