Valerie Hobbs

An Introduction to Religious Language (eBook, ePUB)

Exploring Theolinguistics in Contemporary Contexts

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Dezember 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781350095762
• Artikelnr.: 60650479

Autorenporträt

Valerie Hobbs is Senior Lecturer in Applied Linguistics at the University of Sheffield, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Foreword by David Crystal
Acknowledgements
Permissions
1. Why Religious Language?
2. What is Religion? What is Religious Language?
3. Functions of Religious Language
4. Investigating Religious Language: Contexts, Text Types and Strategies
5. Investigating Religious Language: Vocabulary, Archaism and Parallelism
6. Investigating Religious Language: Metaphor and Intertextuality
7. Religious Language and Prayer
8. Religious Language at the Time of Human Death
9. Religious Language Here, There, Everywhere
10. Religious Language: An Open Horizon
Appendices
Notes
References
Index