Book contents
- Analysing Religious Discourse
- Analysing Religious Discourse
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- 1 Analysing Religious Discourse: Introduction
- 2 Interaction
- 3 Ethnography
- 4 Narrative
- 5 Multimodality
- 6 Rhetoric
- 7 Translation
- 8 Institutions
- 9 Media
- 10 Community
- 11 Education
- 12 Inter-religious Dialogue
- 13 Rituals
- 14 Metaphor
- 15 Emotion
- 16 Identity
- 17 Cognition
- 18 Sacred Texts
- 19 Ecology
- 20 Conclusion
- Key Terms
- References
13 - Rituals
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Book contents
- Analysing Religious Discourse
- Analysing Religious Discourse
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- 1 Analysing Religious Discourse: Introduction
- 2 Interaction
- 3 Ethnography
- 4 Narrative
- 5 Multimodality
- 6 Rhetoric
- 7 Translation
- 8 Institutions
- 9 Media
- 10 Community
- 11 Education
- 12 Inter-religious Dialogue
- 13 Rituals
- 14 Metaphor
- 15 Emotion
- 16 Identity
- 17 Cognition
- 18 Sacred Texts
- 19 Ecology
- 20 Conclusion
- Key Terms
- References
Summary
Discusses ritual, using the concept of pragamemes to discuss idiomatic eulogies in Taiwanese funerals. The analysis looks specifically at how religious beliefs influence the construction of Buddhist and Christian phrases, with important difference in the conceptual metaphors the idioms employ.
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- Analysing Religious Discourse , pp. 217 - 234Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021
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