Cultural Linguistics and religion
Spiritual systems such as religions embody
particular worldviews or systems of conceptualizing life, death,
morality, creation, the life hereafter, fate, and so on. Since these
conceptualizations are more or less shared across any speech
community that believes in the same faith, religions can be viewed
as providing systems of cultural
conceptualizations. The analytical framework of Cultural
Linguistics should therefore be able to offer fruitful tools for
examining the language and conceptualizations associated with
spiritual systems. This chapter demonstrates this premise by
presenting a survey of the research on language and religion from
the perspective of Cultural Linguistics.
Article outline
- 1.Cultural Linguistics
- 2.Background
- 3.Conceptualizations relating to Sufi life
- 4.Conceptualizations relating to death in Buddhist and Christian
eulogistic idioms
- 5.Conceptualizations relating to Sacred Sites in Aboriginal
English
- 5.1Aboriginal English
- 5.2Sacredness in Aboriginal English
- 6.Concluding remarks
-
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