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The literary commentary in Sanskrit as metalinguistic communication

The literary commentary in Sanskrit as metalinguistic communication AbstractAlthough discernible, if only impressionistically, to most who have read commentaries along with Sanskrit kāvya, links between features of everyday communication and the commentarial format merit an explicit highlighting, especially with respect to their mutual utilization of metalanguage to effectively convey intended messages on a semantic and pragmatic level. Traditional and modern scholars who have reflected upon and practiced interpretation, particularly scriptural hermeneutics and grammatical analysis, have brought wide attention to the varied metalinguistic devices and cultural pragmatics that go into shaping a commentarial tradition of cherished foundational works on Veda, buddhavacana, Jain sūtra, vyākaraṇa, and any number of traditions of philosophical śāstra. This paper builds on some of this reflection to specifically address metalinguistic features that characterize the kāvya commentary in Sanskrit. Among these features include discursive processes to underscore complex semantic sense in poetry as well as to reproduce or reveal pragmatic interactive contexts within which kāvya is read. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Asiatische Studien – Études Asiatiques de Gruyter

The literary commentary in Sanskrit as metalinguistic communication

Patel, Deven M.
Asiatische Studien – Études Asiatiques , Volume 76 (3): 19 – Sep 1, 2022
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de Gruyter
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© 2022 Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Boston
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0004-4717
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10.1515/asia-2021-0037
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Abstract

AbstractAlthough discernible, if only impressionistically, to most who have read commentaries along with Sanskrit kāvya, links between features of everyday communication and the commentarial format merit an explicit highlighting, especially with respect to their mutual utilization of metalanguage to effectively convey intended messages on a semantic and pragmatic level. Traditional and modern scholars who have reflected upon and practiced interpretation, particularly scriptural hermeneutics and grammatical analysis, have brought wide attention to the varied metalinguistic devices and cultural pragmatics that go into shaping a commentarial tradition of cherished foundational works on Veda, buddhavacana, Jain sūtra, vyākaraṇa, and any number of traditions of philosophical śāstra. This paper builds on some of this reflection to specifically address metalinguistic features that characterize the kāvya commentary in Sanskrit. Among these features include discursive processes to underscore complex semantic sense in poetry as well as to reproduce or reveal pragmatic interactive contexts within which kāvya is read.

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Asiatische Studien – Études Asiatiques – de Gruyter

Published: Sep 1, 2022

Keywords: commentary; communication; kāvya; metalanguage; Sanskrit

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