Cultural Conceptualizations of shame & dishonor in Early Poetic Arabic (EPA)

Bartosz  Pietrzak

Cultural Conceptualizations of shame & dishonor in Early Poetic Arabic (EPA)

Publication date: 18.11.2021

The Polish Journal of the Arts and Culture. New Series, 2021, 14 (2/2021), pp. 73 - 94

https://doi.org/10.4467/24506249PJ.21.018.15324

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Cultural Conceptualizations of shame & dishonor in Early Poetic Arabic (EPA)

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Persisting in a binary relationship with honor, shame was an important element of the pre-Islamic Arabic social evaluation system. In my study, I analyzed the two most important EPA concepts parallel to English shame – ˁayb and ˁār – applying the Cultural Linguistic approach. Based on the analyses on corpus of Early Arabic poetry and Classical Arabic dictionaries, I represented cultural schemata encoding the knowledge shared by pre-Islamic Arabs about those phenomena. The paper presents also metaphoric, metonymic, and image-schematic models, which account for the specifics of associated linguistic frames. Moreover, I posit a hypothesis on the existence of a schema subsuming the honor- and shame-dishonor-related schemata in form of social evaluation of usefulness, which seems to correspond to the historical and linguistic data.

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Cultural linguistics, shame, dishonor, Early Poetic Arabic, pre-Islamic Arabic Culture

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Information: The Polish Journal of the Arts and Culture. New Series, 2021, 14 (2/2021), pp. 73 - 94

DOI: https://doi.org/10.4467/24506249PJ.21.018.15324

Article type: Original article

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Cultural Conceptualizations of shame & dishonor in Early Poetic Arabic (EPA)

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Cultural Conceptualizations of shame & dishonor in Early Poetic Arabic (EPA)

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Bartosz Pietrzak

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4588-3380

Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Gołębia 24, 31-007 Kraków, Poland

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