Search for dissertations about: "Turkic"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 7 swedish dissertations containing the word Turkic.

  2. 1. Slippery paths : The performance and canonization of Turkic literature and Uyghur muqam song in Islam and modernity

    Author : Nathan Light; USA IN Indiana University; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Folklore; Song; Islam; Muqam; Modernity; Language; literature and linguistics; Social sciences; Turkic; Canonization; Middle Eastern literature; Uyghur; Performance; China; Asian literature; Turkic languages; Turkiska språk; Literature; Litteraturvetenskap; Religionshistoria; History of Religions;

    Abstract : In the past forty years the fluid Uyghur muqam song tradition has been transformed into a cultural canon used to represent the Uyghur ethnic group within China and on the world stage. Traditional muqam performers have provided the magma of songs that scholars and politicians have edited into an invented "great tradition" which supports a Uyghur claim to an important piece world cultural history. READ MORE

  4. 2. Modality in Kazakh as spoken in China

    Author : Aynur Abish; Eva Agnes Csato Johanson; Lars Johanson; László Károly; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Turkic languages; Kazakh; modality; Turkiska språk; Turkic languages;

    Abstract : This is a comprehensive study on expressions of modality in one of the largest Turkic languages, Kazakh, as it is spoken in China. Kazakh is the official language of the Republic of Kazakhstan and is furthermore spoken by about one and a half million people in China in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region and in Aksai Kazakh Autonomous County in Gansu Province. READ MORE

  5. 3. Languages of healing : Theories, practice and terminology within Eastern Turki medicine in the late 19th and early 20th centuries

    Author : Patrick Hällzon; László Károly; Ildikó Bellér-Hann; Julian Rentzsch; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : Eastern Turki; Uyghur; Medicine; Graeco-Islamic; Chagatay; Medical manuscripts; Turkic languages; Turkiska språk;

    Abstract : Medical practices in Eastern Turkestan consisted of a number of components that are not easily identifiable, constituting a highly pluralistic medical field defined by several overlapping traditions, of which Graeco-Islamic medicine played one part while the others, including Western medicine, also played important and/or complementary roles. It can be defined as a diverse but still coherent medical tradition closely related to that of adjacent societies, especially Turkic and Muslim, but also shaped by its own specific historical and cultural context. READ MORE

  6. 4. A Halich Karaim Bible Translation

    Author : Zsuzsanna Olach; Éva Ágnes Csató Johanson; Lars Johanson; Mats Eskhult; Marcel Erdal; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Karaim; Halich Karaim; Bible Translation; Code Copying; Turkiska språk; Turkic languages;

    Abstract : This dissertation is a corpus-based analysis of a translation of the Hebrew Bible into Halich Karaim, a Kipchak Turkic variety previously spoken in the present-day Ukraine. The corpus analysed in the thesis comprises sixty selected pages of a 596 page manuscript written in the Hebrew alphabet. READ MORE

  7. 5. Some aspects of the syntax of Hungarian and Turkish : A study in syntactic typology

    Author : Éva Ágnes Csató; Even Hovdhaugen; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : Turkic languages; Turkiska språk;

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