Re: Historical Analyses of Arabic



Peter T. Daniels wrote:
> António Marques wrote:
> >
> > Peter T. Daniels wrote:
> >
> > >> I'm not sure why the current trend towards encyclopedification in
> > >> the humanities started, but my hypothesis is that the
> > >> encyclopedia represents the humanities' version of the textbook
> > >> in the natural and applied sciences (even more so in a Kuhnian
> > >> sense, where the textbook phenomenon is regarded as a milestone
> > >> in the professionalization of science).
> > >
> > > The E of the Q appears (from the brochures they keep sending me) to
> > > be excerpts from EI2.
> > >
> > > Linguistics, at least, is well supplied with textbooks, both
> > > general and specific; the deluge of encyclopedias are mostly aimed
> > > at nonlinguists (Routledge alone publishes several).
> >
> > I would think an encyclopedia to be all-encompassing. I'd expect an E.
> > of Q. to cover linguistics, philology, literary analysis, history,
> > anthropology, geography, theology, politics and whatnot.
>
> It does. It's a brief excerpting of the EI2.

certain articles like "Epigraphy" and "Calendar" are in the EI2
ballpark. others have a different tone.

>
> > OTOH I expect a textbook to be more limited in scope.
> >
> > It's funny 'science' people seem to think 'the humanities' have no method.
>
> Linguistics and history usually fall between the Humanities and the
> Social Sciences faculties.
> --
> Peter T. Daniels grammatim@xxxxxxx

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