Research Catalog

Title

Religion, language, and the human mind / edited by Paul Chilton and Monika Kopytowska.

Publication

• New York : Oxford University Press, [2018]
• ©2018

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Details

Additional Authors

• Chilton, Paul A. (Paul Anthony)
• Kopytowska, Monika Weronika, 1978-

Description

lii, 483 pages : illustrations; 25 cm

Summary

Religion is a multi-faceted and complex human phenomenon, combining many different mental and social characteristics. Among these, language plays a crucial though often neglected role. This volume brings together groundbreaking work from linguistics, cognitive science and neuroscience, as well as from religious studies, in order to illuminate the origins and centrality of religion in human life.

Subject

• Language and languages > Religious aspects
• Communication > Religious aspects
• Metaphor > Religious aspects
• Cognitive grammar > Research
• Neurolinguistics

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction: religion as a cognitive and linguistic phenomenon / Paul Chilton, Monika Kopytowska -- Part I : Religious language, mind, and Brain. Whatever happened to theolinguistics? / David Crystal -- Speaking about God in universal words, thinking about God outside English / Anna Wierzbicka -- Religious metaphors at the crossroads between apophatical theology and cognitive linguistics : an interdisciplinary study / Kurt Feyaerts, Lieven Boeve -- Linguistics and the scientific study of religion : prayer as a cognitive register / William Downes -- Cognitive neuroscience and religious language : a working hypothesis / Patrick McNamara, Magda Giordano -- God, metaphor, and the language of the hemispheres / Iain McGilchrist -- Part II : Investigating metaphor in religious texts. A composite countenance : the divine face as mixed metaphor in Jewish mysticism / Ellen Haskell -- The guru's tongue : metaphor, imagery, and vernacular language in Vaiṣṇava Sahajiyā Hindu traditions / Glen Alexander Hayes -- Snakes, leaves, and poisoned arrows : metaphors of emotion in early Buddhism / Hubert Kowalewski -- Buddhist metaphors in the diamond sutra and the heart sutra : a cognitive perspective / Xiuping Gao, Chun Lan -- The Muslim prophetic tradition : spatial source domains for metaphorical expressions / Ahmad El-Sharif -- Metaphor in religious transformation : 'circumcision of the heart' in Paul of Tarsus / Ralph Bisschops -- Part III : New perspectives. Cognitive pragmatics and multi-layered communication : allegory in Christian religious discourse / Christoph Unger -- Metaphor and metonymy in language and art : the dogma of the holy trinity and its artistic representation / Antonio Barcelona -- Waging war against oneself : a conceptual blend at the heart of Christian ascetic practice / Mihailo Antović-- Hoc est corpus : deixis and the integration of ritual space / Paul Chilton, David Cram -- The televisualization of ritual : spirituality, spatiality, and co-presence in religious broadcasting / Monika Kopytowska.

Call Number

JFE 18-6429

ISBN

• 0190636645
• 9780190636647

OCLC

983872871

Title

Religion, language, and the human mind / edited by Paul Chilton and Monika Kopytowska.

Publisher

New York : Oxford University Press, [2018]

Copyright Date

©2018

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Chilton, Paul A. (Paul Anthony), editor.

Kopytowska, Monika Weronika, 1978- editor.

Research Call Number

JFE 18-6429