From Tuscany to Egypt: Eighteenth Century Arabic Letters in the Prize Paper Collections
From Tuscany to Egypt: Eighteenth Century Arabic Letters in the Prize Paper Collections
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从托斯卡纳到埃及：获奖论文集中的十八世纪阿拉伯字母
DOI：
10.1093/jss/fgx030
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发表时间：
2017
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0.2
通讯作者：
Esther-Miriam Wagner
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作者：
Mohamed Ahmed;Esther-Miriam Wagner
Kew Gardens国家档案馆的获奖文件收藏包括55封阿拉伯信件和另外20多份账目和其他文件，这些文件于1759年被英国私船没收，作为从利沃诺出发前往亚历山大港的托斯卡纳船上赃物的一部分。从那时起，几乎没有人接触过它们，它们提供了最令人兴奋的奥斯曼阿拉伯语纪录片来源。这些信件是由在地中海进行贸易的基督教商人以及罗马的基督教神职人员写给他们在埃及和土耳其的教友的。本文介绍了阿拉伯文学奖论文，对11封信的初步语料库进行了简短的语言学分析，并对3封信样本进行了编辑和翻译。特别注意商人写的书信和教会要人写的书信之间的语言差异，以及在特定作家中发现的社会语言差异。
The Prize Paper Collections in the National Archives in Kew Gardens contain more than fifty-five Arabic letters and another two dozen accounts and other documents, which were seized in 1759 by British privateers as part of the loot on a Tuscan ship, set out from Livorno towards Alexandria. Virtually untouched since that time, they present a most exciting source of documentary Ottoman Arabic. The letters were written by Christian merchants trading in the Mediterranean and by Christian clergy in Rome to their co-religionists in Egypt and Turkey. This article presents an introduction to the Arabic Prize Papers, a short linguistic analysis of a preliminary corpus of eleven letters, the edition and translation of three sample letters. Particular attention is paid to the linguistic divergence between those letters written by merchants and those composed by church dignitaries, as well as to the sociolinguistic variation found in specific writers.