[Lingtyp] Languages with connotations for 'left' and 'right'

[Eitan Grossman]

Hi Horia, hi all,

There is a detailed studyby Matthias Müller of spatial frames of reference,
with particular reference to left/right and their diachrony, in Ancient
Egyptian. Here is the link:

https://www.academia.edu/692596/Spatial_frames_of_reference_in_Egyptian_in_Grossmann_Polis_and_Winand_Lexical_Semantics

Eitan

Eitan Grossman
Senior Lecturer, Department of Linguistics/School of Language Sciences
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Tel: +972 2 588 3809
Fax: +972 2 588 1224


On Sun, Mar 3, 2019 at 3:40 AM Randy J. LaPolla <randy.lapolla at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Dear Piet,
>
> But was that stage left?  or audience left?
>
>
> In Chinese, the expression 男左女右 ‘man left, woman right’, at least in
> portraits, originally referred to stage left and right, i.e. from the
> perspective of the people in the portrait, but most people nowadays
> interpret this expression to be audience left and right. So the perspective
> can change over time.
>
> Randy
> -----
> *Randy J. LaPolla, PhD FAHA* （羅仁地）
> Professor of Linguistics, with courtesy appointment in Chinese, School of
> Humanities
> Nanyang Technological University
> HSS-03-45, 48 Nanyang Ave | Singapore 639818
> http://randylapolla.net/
> Most recent books:
> *The Sino-Tibetan Languages, 2nd Edition (*2017)
>
> https://www.routledge.com/The-Sino-Tibetan-Languages-2nd-Edition/LaPolla-Thurgood/p/book/9781138783324
> *Sino-Tibetan Linguistics *(2018)
>
> https://www.routledge.com/Sino-Tibetan-Linguistics/LaPolla/p/book/9780415577397
>
> On 3 Mar 2019, at 3:20 AM, piet lincoln <linc at hawaii.rr.com> wrote:
>
> What about political use?
>
> We all know "left"  for progressive as opposed to "right" for conservative?
>
> from seating of the French revolutionary parliament?
>
> But was that stage left?  or audience left?   where the "left" sat?
>
> just asking
>
> Piet
>
> Piet as an homage to Danish polymath, Piet Hein.
>
>
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