Jan 22
ChRIS CLÉiRIGhbook publication
Title: Without Metaphor, No Saving God
Subtitle: Theology after Cognitive Linguistics
Series Title: Studies in Philosophical Theology, 54
Publication Year: 2014
Publisher: ISD, Distributor of Scholarly Books
http://www.isdistribution.com
Book URL: https://www.isdistribution.com/BookDetail.aspx?aId=34846
Author: R. Masson
Paperback: ISBN: 9789042930193 Pages: 347 Price: U.S. $ 79.00
Abstract:
Studies of conceptual and neural mapping in cognitive linguistics, while
posing a fundamental challenge for religious belief, also suggest new ways of
understanding how people conceptualize God and make theological inferences.
This book, inspired by that research and attentive to the distinctive insights
of Christian theology, elaborates an innovative explanation of God-talk,
better able to credibly address confusion and controversies that trouble the
church, academic theology, and broader culture. The first part analyzes both
cognitive linguistics’ challenge to standard theological depictions of
metaphorical, analogous, symbolic, and literal language, and the discipline’s
promise for providing a more satisfactory account. The second half examines
six case studies to illustrate how clarifying the conceptual mapping in
God-talk and theological inferences provides a powerful tool for advancing
religious understanding. The illustrations include the hypothesis that
religion is an epiphenomenon of evolution, the so-called “new atheism,” Black
theology, and controversies between theologians and Church authorities.
(Peeters Publishers 2014)
Jan 17
ChRIS CLÉiRIGhbook publication
Title: Language and Identity
Subtitle: Discourse in the World
Publication Year: 2014
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing (formerly The Continuum International Publishing Group)
http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/
Book URL: http://bloomsbury.com/language-and-identity-9780567338167/
Editor: David Ceri Evans
Electronic: ISBN: 9780567566140 Pages: 256 Price: U.K. £ 23.99
Electronic: ISBN: 9780567047793 Pages: 256 Price: U.K. £ 23.99
Hardback: ISBN: 9780567338167 Pages: 256 Price: U.K. £ 75.00
Abstract:
Language not only expresses identities but also constructs them. Starting from that point, Language and Identity examines the interrelationships between language and identities. It finds that they are so closely interwoven, that words themselves are inscribed with ideological meanings.
Words and language constitute meanings within discourses and discourses vary in power. The powerful ones reproduce more powerful meanings, colonize other discourses and marginalize or silence the least powerful languages and cultures. Language and culture death occur in extreme cases of marginalization.
This book also demonstrates the socio-economic opportunities offered by language choice and the cultural allegiances of language, where groups have been able to create new lives for themselves by embracing new languages in new countries. Language can be a ‘double-edged sword’ of opportunity and marginalization. Language and Identity argues that bilingualism and in some cases multilingualism can both promote socio-economic opportunity and combat culture death and marginalization.
With sound theoretical perspectives drawing upon the work of Bakhtin, Vygotsky, Gumperz, Foucault and others, this book provides readers with a rationale to redress social injustice in the world by supporting minority linguistic and cultural identities and an acknowledgement that access to language can provide opportunity.
Jan 15
ChRIS CLÉiRIGhbook publication
Title: Words for Feelings
Subtitle: Studies in the History of the English Emotion Lexicon
Series Title: Anglistische Forschungen, 446
Publication Year: 2014
Publisher: ISD, Distributor of Scholarly Books
http://www.isdistribution.com
Book URL: https://www.isdistribution.com/BookDetail.aspx?aId=54534
Author: Hans-Jürgen Diller
Hardback: ISBN: 9783825363598 Pages: 446 Price: U.S. $ 93.00
Abstract:
The papers and articles united in this volume analyse the use of a selection
of lexemes designating emotions in the history of English from Anglo-Saxon
times to Late Modern English. An Introduction gives an account of the emotions
in modern psychology and of the contribution of Historical Semantics to our
understanding of their origins. A number of chapters discriminate the meanings
of near-synonyms such as ‘wrath’/’anger’/’tene’ or ‘joy’/’bliss’/’mirth’.
Other chapters trace the emergence and demise of superordinate categories like
‘mood’, ‘passion’, and ’emotion’. The analyses are largely based on closed
computer-readable collections as they are accessible for Old, Middle, and
Modern English. The more recent chapters aim at a balanced consideration of
literary and non-literary genres and use a personal selection from more
comprehensive repositories like ‘Gutenberg’, the ‘Online Books Page’, ‘Google
Books’ and the ‘Internet Archive’. To a large extent, that selection draws on
traditional bibliographical tools. (Universitätsverlag Winter 2014)
Jan 09
ChRIS CLÉiRIGhbook publication
Title: Discourse Analysis beyond the Speech Event
Publication Year: 2014
Publisher: Routledge (Taylor and Francis)
http://www.routledge.com/
Book URL: http://bit.ly/14zdaep
Author: Stanton Wortham
Author: Angela Reyes
Hardback: ISBN: 9780415839495 Pages: 196 Price: U.K. £ 100.00
Paperback: ISBN: 9780415839501 Pages: 196 Price: U.K. £ 29.99
Abstract:
Discourse Analysis beyond the Speech Event introduces a new approach to
discourse analysis. In this innovative work, Wortham and Reyes argue that
discourse analysts should look beyond fixed speech events and consider the
development of discourses over time. Drawing on theories and methods from
linguistic anthropology and related fields, this book is the first to present
a systematic methodological approach to conducting discourse analysis of
linked events, allowing researchers to understand not only individual events
but also the patterns that emerge across them.
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