Articulating Religious Meaning in Conversation: Variations in Linguistic Style by Subdenominational Religious Group
Language is central to the creation, expression and exchange of meaning including, in particular, religious meaning. This examination of differences in the content and structure of the language used by three groups of Australian Anglicans reveals distinctive linguistic patterns common to each group....
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| Medienart: | Elektronisch Aufsatz |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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Springer
1995
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Review of religious research
Jahr: 1995, Band: 37, Heft: 2, Seiten: 132-146 |
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| Zusammenfassung: | Language is central to the creation, expression and exchange of meaning including, in particular, religious meaning. This examination of differences in the content and structure of the language used by three groups of Australian Anglicans reveals distinctive linguistic patterns common to each group. Four dimensions of linguistic variation were discovered in the analysis of individual responses to questions of meaning: "religious" versus "secular", "formulaic" versus "individualistic", "direct" versus "agentless passive", and "confident" versus "hedging" responses. Differences in spiritual orientation were found to be associated with differences in these linguistic patterns while age and gender were not. Each spiritual orientation was associated with a different linguistic type of response. This research points the way to the use of linguistic analysis of religious discourse as a technique for identifying and analyzing the different ways groups are religious and for examining the ways in which religious change is occurring. |
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| ISSN: | 2211-4866 |
| Enthält: | Enthalten in: Review of religious research
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2307/3512397 |