Cognitive Linguistics and Religious Language: An Introduction

by Charles M Mueller, Stephen Pihlaja, Peter Richardson

Book Overview

This book comprehensively introduces Cognitive Linguistics and applies its tools to religious language. Drawing on authentic samples from a range of faiths, text types, and modes of interactive discourse, the authors accessibly define concepts like embodied cognition, agency, metaphor analysis, and Dynamic Systems Theory; illustrate how they can be used in analyzing religious language; and offer thorough pedagogical material to aid learning and application...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367484617
• ISBN13: 9780367484613
• Release Date: March 2021
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 164 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 8.9"