Corpus of Early Poetic Arabic (CEAP)
It contains 50 TXT files recording poetry composition by various authors from 6th and 7th c. It was derived from two corpora: King Saud University Classical Arabic Corpus (KSUCAC) created by the team led by Maha S. Alrabiah (2014), and a corpus prepared by Abeer Alsheddi (2016).
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Cultural Conceptualizations of shame & dishonor in Early Poetic Arabic (EPA)
cultural conceptualizations of shame and dishonor
The Polish Journal of the Arts and Culture. New Series}
Bartosz Pietrzak
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.