An Introduction To Religious Language
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| Author | : Valerie Hobbs |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 241 |
| Release | : 2020-12-10 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 1350095761 |
Religious language is all around us, embedded in advertising, politics and news media. This book introduces readers to the field of theolinguistics, the study of religious language. Investigating the ways in which people talk to and about God, about the sacred and about religion itself, it considers why people make certain linguistic choices and what they accomplish. Introducing the key methods required for examining religious language, Valerie Hobbs acquaints readers with the most common and important theolinguistic features and their functions. Using critical corpus-assisted discourse analysis with a focus on archaic and other lexical features, metaphor, agency and intertextuality, she examines religious language in context. Highlighting its use in both expected locations, such as modern-day prayer and politics, and unexpected locations including advertising, sport, healthcare and news media, Hobbs analyses the shifting and porous linguistic boundaries between the religious and the secular. With discussion questions and further readings for each chapter, as well as a companion website featuring suggested answers to the reflection tasks, this is the ideal introduction to the study of religious language.
| Author | : Peter Donovan |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 124 |
| Release | : 1976 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9780801562785 |
| Author | : Stanley E. Porter |
| Publisher | : A&C Black |
| Total Pages | : 322 |
| Release | : 1996-02-01 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 9781850755807 |
The papers in this volume were presented at a conference held at the Roehampton Institute London, in February 1995, and are concerned with either theological or literary issues related to the nature of religious language. The papers offer different interpretations of a range of issues and suggest further issues that are still unresolved about the nature of religious language, from its early usage in the biblical texts to its recent use in contemporary writing and religious discourse, as well as many points in between.
| Author | : Peter Richardson |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 249 |
| Release | : 2021-03-28 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 1000347923 |
This book comprehensively introduces Cognitive Linguistics and applies its tools to religious language. Drawing on authentic samples from a range of faiths, text types, and modes of interactive discourse, the authors accessibly define concepts like embodied cognition, agency, metaphor analysis, and Dynamic Systems Theory; illustrate how they can be used in analyzing religious language; and offer thorough pedagogical material to aid learning and application. Advanced students and scholars of linguistics, discourse analysis, cognitive science, and religious and biblical studies will benefit from this practical guide to understanding and conducting research on religious discourse.
| Author | : Valerie Hobbs |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 241 |
| Release | : 2020-12-10 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 1350095761 |
Religious language is all around us, embedded in advertising, politics and news media. This book introduces readers to the field of theolinguistics, the study of religious language. Investigating the ways in which people talk to and about God, about the sacred and about religion itself, it considers why people make certain linguistic choices and what they accomplish. Introducing the key methods required for examining religious language, Valerie Hobbs acquaints readers with the most common and important theolinguistic features and their functions. Using critical corpus-assisted discourse analysis with a focus on archaic and other lexical features, metaphor, agency and intertextuality, she examines religious language in context. Highlighting its use in both expected locations, such as modern-day prayer and politics, and unexpected locations including advertising, sport, healthcare and news media, Hobbs analyses the shifting and porous linguistic boundaries between the religious and the secular. With discussion questions and further readings for each chapter, as well as a companion website featuring suggested answers to the reflection tasks, this is the ideal introduction to the study of religious language.
| Author | : Sipra Mukherjee |
| Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
| Total Pages | : 212 |
| Release | : 2018-06-14 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 0429880081 |
This book analyses the power that religion wields upon the minds of individuals and communities and explores the predominance of language in the actual practice of religion. Through an investigation of the diverse forms of religious language available — oral traditions, sacred texts, evangelical prose, and national rhetoric used by ‘faith-insiders’ such as missionaries, priests, or religious leaders who play the communicator’s role between the sacred and the secular — the chapters in the volume reveal the dependence of religion upon language, demonstrating how religion draws strength from a past that is embedded in narratives, infusing the ‘sacred’ language with political power. The book combines broad theoretical and normative reflections in contexts of original, detailed and closely examined empirical case studies. Drawing upon resources across disciplines, the book will be of interest to scholars of religion and religious studies, linguistics, politics, cultural studies, history, sociology, and social anthropology.
| Author | : Robert Yelle |
| Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
| Total Pages | : 476 |
| Release | : 2019-02-19 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 1614514321 |
This volume draws on an interdisciplinary team of authors to advance the study of the religious dimensions of communication and the linguistic aspects of religion. Contributions cover: poetry, iconicity, and iconoclasm in religious language; semiotic ideologies in traditional religions and in secularism; and the role of materiality and writing in religious communication. This volume will provoke new approaches to language and religion.
| Author | : Ian T. Ramsey |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 232 |
| Release | : 1957 |
| Genre | : Christianity |
| ISBN | : |
"First published 1957 " Campion Collection.
| Author | : William James Abraham |
| Publisher | : Prentice Hall |
| Total Pages | : 284 |
| Release | : 1985 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Ernst van den Hemel |
| Publisher | : Fordham University Press |
| Total Pages | : 614 |
| Release | : 2016-06-15 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 0823255581 |
It is said that words are like people: One can encounter them daily yet never come to know their true selves. This volume examines what words are—how they exist—in religious phenomena. Going beyond the common idea that language merely describes states of mind, beliefs, and intentions, the book looks at words in their performative and material specificity. The contributions in the volume develop the insight that our implicit assumptions about what language does guide the way we understand and experience religious phenomena. They also explore the possibility that insights about the particular status of religious utterances may in turn influence the way we think about words in our language.
