Myungin Sohn

Myungin Sohn is a Ph.D. candidate at Stanford's Department of Comparative Literature. She is interested in topics related to the philosophy of language, especially the relationship between meaning (maʿnā) and utterance (lafẓ) in the context of the medieval Arabic grammatical tradition. Her M.A. thesis, “God Taught Adam all the Names,” looks at accounts of the origin of language and the correctness of names in Qur’anic exegesis (tafsīr). Her dissertation reads Ibn Jinni’s (d. 392/1002) Arabic linguistic theory through Neoplatonism to ask how sound and prosody produce affect in everyday language. She has previously studied at the Qasid Institute in Amman, Jordan.