Religion in the Media: A Linguistic Analysis
Title | Religion in the Media: A Linguistic Analysis PDF eBook |
Author | Salman Al-Azami |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 256 |
Release | 2016-08-30 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 1137299738 |
This ground-breaking book takes an interdisciplinary approach to language, religion and media using an audience-response study. In this book, the author investigates how the three Abrahamic faiths - Christianity, Judaism and Islam - are represented in mainstream British media and analyses how members of each religious group and those with no religion receive those representations. Employing Critical Discourse Analysis, Al-Azami considers the way the media use their power of language to influence the audience’s perceptions of the three religions through newspaper articles, television documentaries and television dramas. Chapter 3 presents the results of an original investigation into the responses of members of the three religious groups and those with no religion when exposed to those same media materials. The author applies the encoding/decoding model and also considers people’s views in face-to-face interactions compared to comments on online newspapers. Comprehensive in its analysis, this book will be of interest to students of Linguistics, Media Studies, Religious Studies, and Journalism.
Religion in the Media: A Linguistic Analysis
Title | Religion in the Media: A Linguistic Analysis PDF eBook |
Author | Salman Al-Azami |
Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan |
Pages | 231 |
Release | 2016-06-21 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9781349671403 |
This ground-breaking book takes an interdisciplinary approach to language, religion and media using an audience-response study. In this book, the author investigates how the three Abrahamic faiths - Christianity, Judaism and Islam - are represented in mainstream British media and analyses how members of each religious group and those with no religion receive those representations. Employing Critical Discourse Analysis, Al-Azami considers the way the media use their power of language to influence the audience’s perceptions of the three religions through newspaper articles, television documentaries and television dramas. Chapter 3 presents the results of an original investigation into the responses of members of the three religious groups and those with no religion when exposed to those same media materials. The author applies the encoding/decoding model and also considers people’s views in face-to-face interactions compared to comments on online newspapers. Comprehensive in its analysis, this book will be of interest to students of Linguistics, Media Studies, Religious Studies, and Journalism.
Faith and Media
Title | Faith and Media PDF eBook |
Author | Hans Geybels |
Publisher | Peter Lang |
Pages | 264 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9789052015347 |
In the past, ideologies and religions had a real impact on the media. In the current era of mass media and communication strategies, perception takes priority over identity and new questions arise: how to introduce faith and religion in a pluralising and detraditionalising world? What possibilities are offered by the new media? How can technical innovations be incorporated in church communication? Following the conference Belief in the Media (April 2007), this publication focuses on the gap between the language of faith and the language of the general media. The different contributors analyse, from within - but also from outside - a church context, the historical changes and challenges the Catholic Church and other faiths and denominations face with regard to their social communication and media strategies. However it is not only the relationship of religious institutions with the media that is at stake, but also the way in which the media cover topics such as the Middle East, Muslim immigrant populations in Europe, and the World Youth Day. Journalists have to find new ways to get a grip on these issues too.
Language and Religion
Title | Language and Religion PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Yelle |
Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Pages | 476 |
Release | 2019-02-19 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 1614514321 |
This volume draws on an interdisciplinary team of authors to advance the study of the religious dimensions of communication and the linguistic aspects of religion. Contributions cover: poetry, iconicity, and iconoclasm in religious language; semiotic ideologies in traditional religions and in secularism; and the role of materiality and writing in religious communication. This volume will provoke new approaches to language and religion.
Analysing Religious Discourse
Title | Analysing Religious Discourse PDF eBook |
Author | Stephen Pihlaja |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 373 |
Release | 2021-07-08 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 1108876188 |
Language plays a key role in religion, framing how people describe spiritual experience and giving structure to religious beliefs and practices. Bringing together work from a team of world-renowned scholars, this volume introduces contemporary research on religious discourse from a variety of theoretical and methodological perspectives. It introduces methods for analysis of a range of different kinds of text and talk, including institutional discourse within organised religions, discourse around spirituality and spiritual experience within religious communities, media discourse about the role of religion and spirituality in society, translations of sacred texts, political discourse, and ritual language. Engaging and easy-to-read, it is accessible to researchers across linguistics, religious studies, and other related disciplines. A comprehensive introduction to all the major research approaches to religious language, it will become a key resource in the emerging inter-disciplinary field of language and religion.
Religious Talk Online
Title | Religious Talk Online PDF eBook |
Author | Stephen Pihlaja |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 197 |
Release | 2018-03 |
Genre | Computers |
ISBN | 1107157412 |
Original research that explains how religious conflict is played out on social media.
The Routledge Handbook of Language and Religion
Title | The Routledge Handbook of Language and Religion PDF eBook |
Author | Stephen Pihlaja |
Publisher | Taylor & Francis |
Pages | 449 |
Release | 2023-12-14 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 1003819419 |
The Routledge Handbook of Language and Religion is the first ever comprehensive collection of research on religion and language, with over 35 authors from 15 countries, presenting a range of linguistic and discourse analytic research on religion and belief in different discourse contexts. The contributions show the importance of studying language and religion and for bringing together work in this area across sub-disciplines, languages, cultures, and geographical boundaries. The Handbook focuses on three major topics: Religious and Sacred Language, Institutional Discourse, and Religious Identity and Community. Scholars from a variety of different disciplinary backgrounds investigate these topics using a range of linguistic perspectives including Cognitive Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, Sociolinguistics, Pragmatics, and Conversation Analysis. The data analysed in these chapters come from a variety of religious backgrounds and national contexts. Linguistic data from all the major world religions are included, with sacred texts, conversational data, and institutional texts included for analysis. The Handbook is intended to be useful for readers from different subdisciplines within linguistics, but also to researchers working in other disciplines including philosophy, theology, and sociology. Each chapter gives both a template for research approaches and suggestions for future research and will inspire readers at every stage of their career.