Re: CHAT: Of high and noble things ...
| From: | wayne chevrier <wachevrier@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, April 15, 2002, 16:44 |
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Andreas Johansson nevesht:
>Just a question for you language typologists out there:
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>Are the identifications "high"="noble" and "low"="vulgar, common" more or
>less universal, or just a feature of Western traditions?
>
In Arabic, the metaphor is central and peripheral, not high and low, when it
comes to rank and authority.
-Wayne Chevrier
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