Glossing Practice

Franck Cinato; Aimée Lahaussois; John B. Whitman

doi:10.5771/9781793612816

Summary

This volume is the first book to focus specifically on the topic of comparative glossing. It brings together new research on glossing practices from traditions in both the West and East Asia, with a focus on Japan. It also touches on the relation between glossing in the medieval manuscript tradition and the modern linguistic use of the gloss. Its purpose is to present a sample of the most recent studies on glossing as it is practiced across very different parts of the world, highlighting the many shared features found across space and time.

Glosses take many forms and serve numerous functions according to when and where they are produced. They constitute a cross-cultural phenomenon anchored in language, and are the manifestation of hermeneutic processes involved in the transfer of knowledge from one linguistic area to another. Glosses are an integral part of all the stages of this transfer, which is characterized by the necessity to decode and explain the message, encompassing basic grammatical commentary and wider exegetical discussions.

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Copyright year: 2023
ISBN-Print: 978-1-7936-1280-9
ISBN-Online: 978-1-7936-1281-6
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 262
Product type: Edited Book

1. Contents No access
2. List of Figures No access
3. List of Tables No access
1. Note No access
2. References No access
1. 1. What Are Glosses? No access
  2. What Is Textual Glossing? No access
  3. 1. Status of Glossed Materials No access
    2. The Role of Grammarians: The Scientific Nature of Glossing No access
  4. 1. Creation of a Metalanguage No access
    2. Objectification of Language No access
    3. Influence of the Material Nature of Text on the Form of Glosses No access
    4. Exact Transmission of Material and the Creation of Space between Translation and Replication No access
  5. 1. Looking for the Missing Links No access
  6. Notes No access
  7. References No access
2. 1. Overview No access
  2. 1. Reading No access
    2. 1. Meaning No access
      2. Grammatical Information No access
      3. Constructing Meaning No access
  3. Epistemological Perspective for Comparison No access
  4. Glossing and Annotation No access
  5. Notes No access
  6. References No access
1. 1. 1. Glossing as a Cross-Cultural Phenomenon No access
  2. 1. Reading Strategies No access
    2. Gloss Types No access
  3. 3. Methods for Transcribing Kundoku Texts by Japanese Scholars in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries No access
  4. 1. I. Glossing Tiers No access
    2. Seven-Tier Gloss No access
    3. II. Overall Format No access
    4. III. Segmentation No access
    5. IV. Rules Specific to Kundoku Texts No access
    6. V. Phonemicization of Japanese by period No access
  5. 5. Final Thoughts No access
  6. Appendix: List of Glossing Labels for Functional Morphemes in Early Middle Japanese No access
  7. Key No access
  8. Abbreviations No access
  9. Notes No access
  10. References No access
2. 1. Introduction No access
  2. Cases Where the Gloss Recorded Has Been Mistaken for Another Gloss No access
  3. Cases Where a Gloss Interpretable Only on the Basis of a Commentary Text Is Recorded as Is, Without Providing the Relevant Background No access
  4. Cases Where a Gloss Has Been Recorded Without Consideration of Tightness of the Relation between the Gloss and the Glossed Chinese Character No access
  5. Summary and Conclusions No access
  6. Notes No access
  7. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS No access
  8. References No access
3. 1. Word Pairing No access
  2. Code Switching No access
  3. Words and Symbols No access
  4. Interconnecting Knowledge and Its Contexts No access
  5. Conclusion No access
  6. Notes No access
  7. References No access
4. 1. The Earliest Grammar of the Irish Language and Its Pedagogical Context No access
  2. Medical Learning and Linguistic Thought in the Auraicept No access
  3. A Grammatical Gloss on “Essence” and Irish Medico-Philosophical Texts No access
  4. Grammatical Learning and the Evidence of Irish Medical Verse No access
  5. Notes No access
  6. References No access
1. 1. Introduction No access
  2. 1. Forms of Grammatical Glossing No access
  3. The Phenomenon of Dry-point Glosses No access
  4. Grammatical Dry-point Glosses No access
  5. The Example of Old High German No access
  6. Notes No access
  7. References No access
2. 1. Aims and Outline of the Chapter No access
  2. Paratext as Parasitic on Text: A Medieval Viewpoint No access
  3. Text and Paratext as Correlative Terms: An Early Modern Viewpoint No access
  4. Paratextual Paraphernalia: A Radical Pragmatic Viewpoint No access
  5. Primary Text, Paratext, and Punctuation No access
  6. Margins, Frames, and Horizons No access
  7. Notes No access
  8. References No access
3. 1. 1. Glosses on Prosody No access
    2. Lexical Glosses No access
    3. Glosses on Morphology/Grammatical Glosses No access
    4. Glosses on Syntax No access
    5. Explanatory Glosses No access
  2. Conclusions No access
  3. Notes No access
  4. References No access
4. 1. Introduction No access
  2. 1. The Corpus No access
    2. Description of Current Glossing Practices No access
    3. Terminology No access
  3. 1. A Theoretical and Practical Grammar of the Otchipwe Language, by Baraga (1850) No access
    2. Chippewa Language, by Schoolcraft (1855) No access
    3. Grammar of Vayu, by Hodgson (1857) No access
    4. Grammar of Bahing, by Hodgson (1858) No access
    5. Grammar and Dictionary of the Blackfoot, by Tims (1889) No access
    6. Kiranti Language Sketches in G.A. Grierson’s Linguistic Survey of India Vol.III.1 (1909) No access
    7. Algonquian (Fox), by William Jones, Revised by Truman Michelson (1911), in Handbook of American Indian Languages No access
  4. 1. Nature of Annotation and Number of Annotation Types No access
    2. Expression of Pronominal Features through Archaic Pronouns No access
    3. The Presentation of Verbal Data No access
    4. The Use of Segmentation No access
  5. Conclusion No access
  6. Notes No access
  7. References No access
Index No access Pages 249 - 256
Index of Manuscripts No access Pages 257 - 258
About the Editors No access Pages 259 - 260
About the Contributors No access Pages 261 - 262