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Religious classical practice: Entextualisation and performance

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 May 2013

Andrey Rosowsky
Andrey Rosowsky*
Affiliation:
School of Education, University of Sheffield, 388 Glossop Road, Sheffield S10 2JA, UKa.rosowsky@sheffield.ac.uk
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Abstract

This article considers a particular contextualisation of the religious classical and practices associated with it within broader sets of linguistic resources or repertoires. Through a description and analysis of religious classical practices occurring in multilingual urban settings in the UK, the article employs the interpretive frame of performance to account for practice. An introductory overview of religious classical practices is provided, which is followed by a brief discussion of the theoretical considerations surrounding performance and entextualisation. This is followed by the sharing of ethnographic data that aim to demonstrate the performance-oriented and highly entextualised nature of religious classical practice. The article concludes with the suggestion that the latter is an example not only of a set of linguistic resources used predominantly for performative practice but has more in common with scripted theatrical performance than with other conventionally referential communicative practices. (Religious classical, language variety, performance, entextualisation, linguistic resources, linguistic repertoire, Muslim, multilingualism, practice)*

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Language in Society , Volume 42 , Issue 3 , June 2013 , pp. 307 - 330
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