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Vox et Silentium Dei: A Socio-Cognitive Linguistic Theory of Religious Violence
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In: Theses and Dissertations--Linguistics (2020)
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Contemporary research in the study of language and cognition frequently characterizes religious metaphors as either monoliths of experience or stable synchronic structures, if not both. In addition, by virtue of how the foundational theory of this paper, Conceptual Metaphor Theory, has been situated in the literature, pre-modern theist writing on figurative language has been largely ignored. This has resulted in a general application of Conceptual Metaphor Theory to religious language which characterizes religious experience as phenomenologically invalid with the contingent effect of contradicting the basic experiential nature of metaphor. Here, I account for these principal theoretical discrepancies through an exploration of the qualities and varieties of religious metaphor, culminating in a proposed amendment to Conceptual Metaphor Theory. In the latter portion of my thesis, I apply the amended theory to the journal of the American missionary John Allen Chau to demonstrate its theoretical efficacy in relation to an analysis of sovereignty metaphors within Chau’s evangelical ideology.
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Anthropological Linguistics and Sociolinguistics; conceptual metaphor; ideology; ineffability; religion; religious violence
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URL: https://uknowledge.uky.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1037&context=ltt_etds
https://uknowledge.uky.edu/ltt_etds/36
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