Introduction to Religious Language

Exploring Theolinguistics in Contemporary Contexts

Häftad, Engelska, 2021

AvValerie Hobbs,UK) Hobbs, Dr Valerie (University of Sheffield

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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.

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Utgivningsdatum2021-01-14
Mått156 x 234 x 18 mm
Vikt386 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor240
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN9781350095748

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PrefaceForeword by David Crystal AcknowledgementsPermissions1. Why Religious Language? 2. What is Religion? What is Religious Language?3. Functions of Religious Language 4. Investigating Religious Language: Contexts, Text Types and Strategies5. Investigating Religious Language: Vocabulary, Archaism and Parallelism6. Investigating Religious Language: Metaphor and Intertextuality7. 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

What a text states in words can be superficially read and supposedly understood, but what a text encodes and performs with what it states is another. Especially so when it is religious language. In this groundbreaking and paradigm forming work, Valerie Hobbs explores the potency - redemptive and destructive - of religious language and provides for many of us a new way of thinking about what we read and what we write. Theologians may find themselves hiding from her words.