Psycholinguistic Peculiarities of Non-Canonical (Personal) Religious Discourse

HOW IS RELIGIOUS DISCOURSE POSSIBLE? The Constitutive Role of Metaphors in Religious Discourse

The creation and use of metaphors is an indispensable element of our mental skills and our ability to use language. Modern studies of metaphor underline its almost unlimited range. Perceived this way, a metaphor is not only a rhetorical figure occurring in poetical language and in several different specific types of discourse. The ability to create and use metaphors is used in everyday and scie...

A Psycholinguistic Model for the Marking of Discourse Relations

Discourse relations can either be explicitly marked by discourse connectives (DCs), such as therefore and but, or implicitly conveyed in natural language utterances. How speakers choose between the two options is a question that is not well understood. In this study, we propose a psycholinguistic model that predicts whether or not speakers will produce an explicit marker given the discourse rel...

Personal religious orientation and prejudice.

3 generalizations seem well established concerning the relationship between subjective religion and ethnic prejudice: (a) On the average churchgoers are more prejudiced than nonchurchgoers; (b) the relationship is curvilinear; (c) people with an extrinsic religious orientation are significantly more prejudiced than people with an intrinsic religious orientation. With the aid of a scale to measu...

a corpus-based study of the frequency of personal pronouns in translated and comparable non-translated persian texts

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Religious and Political Discourse in Iran: Moving Toward Post-Fundamentalism