Language and Religion /
Language and Religion /
ed. by Robert Yelle, Christopher Lehrich, Courtney Handman.
- 1 online resource (VIII, 468 p.)
- Language Intersections , 2 2195-559X ; .
Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part I: Ritual and language -- To be taken with a grain of salt: Between a “grammar” and a GRAMMUR of a sacrificial ritual system -- Intertextuality, iconicity, and joint speech: Three dialogical modes of linguistic performance in Hindu mantras -- Writing Buddhist liturgies in Dunhuang: Hints of ritualist craft -- The power of Pater Noster and Creed in Anglo-Saxon charms: De-institutionalization and subjectification -- Trembling voices echo: Yi shamanistic and mediumistic speeches -- Part II: Ideologies of religious language -- Speech acts and divine names: Comparing linguistic ideologies of performativity -- The word of God: The epistemology of language in classical Islamic theological thought -- Interface with God: The divine transparency of the Sanskrit language -- Ineffability and music in early Christian theology -- The significance of “the plain style” in seventeenth-century England -- The debate over glossolalia between Conservative Evangelicals and Charismatics: A question of semiotic style -- The place of language in discursive studies of religion -- Part III: Media and materiality after the linguistic turn -- Words, things, and death: The rise of Iron Age literary monuments -- The (poetic) imagery of “flower and song” in Aztec religious expression: Correlating the semiotic modalities of language and pictorial writing -- Religious language and media: Sound reproduction and transduction -- The “point of contact”: Radio and the transduction of healing prayer -- “The Lord says you speak as harlots”: Affect, affectus, and affectio -- Contributors -- Index
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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.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9781614515906 9781501500749 9781614514329
10.1515/9781614514329 doi
2018956865
Language and languages--Religious aspects.
Religion, Sprachwissenschaft.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General.
Language. Linguistic Anthropology. Religion. Religious Studies.
MLCM 2021/44070 (B) BL65.L2 / L36 2019
210.1/4
Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part I: Ritual and language -- To be taken with a grain of salt: Between a “grammar” and a GRAMMUR of a sacrificial ritual system -- Intertextuality, iconicity, and joint speech: Three dialogical modes of linguistic performance in Hindu mantras -- Writing Buddhist liturgies in Dunhuang: Hints of ritualist craft -- The power of Pater Noster and Creed in Anglo-Saxon charms: De-institutionalization and subjectification -- Trembling voices echo: Yi shamanistic and mediumistic speeches -- Part II: Ideologies of religious language -- Speech acts and divine names: Comparing linguistic ideologies of performativity -- The word of God: The epistemology of language in classical Islamic theological thought -- Interface with God: The divine transparency of the Sanskrit language -- Ineffability and music in early Christian theology -- The significance of “the plain style” in seventeenth-century England -- The debate over glossolalia between Conservative Evangelicals and Charismatics: A question of semiotic style -- The place of language in discursive studies of religion -- Part III: Media and materiality after the linguistic turn -- Words, things, and death: The rise of Iron Age literary monuments -- The (poetic) imagery of “flower and song” in Aztec religious expression: Correlating the semiotic modalities of language and pictorial writing -- Religious language and media: Sound reproduction and transduction -- The “point of contact”: Radio and the transduction of healing prayer -- “The Lord says you speak as harlots”: Affect, affectus, and affectio -- Contributors -- Index
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
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.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9781614515906 9781501500749 9781614514329
10.1515/9781614514329 doi
2018956865
Language and languages--Religious aspects.
Religion, Sprachwissenschaft.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General.
Language. Linguistic Anthropology. Religion. Religious Studies.
MLCM 2021/44070 (B) BL65.L2 / L36 2019
210.1/4