Language change for the worse [PDF]
Many theories hold that language change, at least on a local level, is driven by a need for improvement. The present volume explores to what extent this assumption holds true, and whether there is a particular type of language change that we dub language
Schaden, Gerhard +16 more
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Metaphor, Religious Language, and Religious Experience [PDF]
Sophia, 2007 Is it possible to talk about God without either misrepresentation or failing to assert anything of significance? The article begins by reviewing how, in attempting to answer this question, traditional theories of religious language have failed to sidestep both potential pitfalls adequately.
Victoria S. Harrison
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Interpreting Religious Language: A Wittgensteinian View
ReligionsThis paper outlines a view of religious language that revolves around the notion of informed interpretation. The view can be summed up by saying that there is no fact of the matter independently of context and informed interpretation as to whether some ...
Mario Brandhorst
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Another Look at Thematization of Complement in English from Functional Linguistic Perspective [PDF]
Transcultural Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2023 This paper tries to re-examine the issue of a new topic that is complements in English sentence construction in terms of Theme and Rheme. It presents an overview on the sentential complement as a universal linguistic phenomenon in natural languages ...
Ayad Al-Luhaibi, Riyadh Al-Jashami
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On Affirming the Unintelligible God: Examining Denys Turner’s Account of Atheism [PDF]
Studia Gilsoniana, 2021 This paper investigates Denys Turner’s article, “On Denying the Right God: Aquinas on Atheism and Idolatry.” According to the author, Denys Turner’s account contributes to theist and atheist debates by treating the issue of whether God can be ...
Kaz Kukiela
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Wyzwania współczesności a tradycja. O roli i języku programów religijnych na przykładzie telewizyjnego magazynu Kościoła greckokatolickiego w Polsce „Pełnia Wiary” [PDF]
Język. Religia. Tożsamość, 2022 The proposed text aims to present and evaluate the magazine of the Greek Catholic Church in Poland, “Fullness of Faith”, in the context of the role of religious television programs and their functioning in the area of religious media discourse.
Przemysław Jóźwikiewicz
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Grammatical systems without language borders: Lessons from free-range language
, 2023 Current research in grammatical analysis and sociolinguistics points to two core characteristics of language that seem incommensurable at first sight: (1) research on linguistic structure indicates internal organisation and coherence, and the workings ...
Wiese, Heike
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The Nature of Religious Language from Rumi’s Point of View [PDF]
International Multidisciplinary Journal of Pure Life, 2022 SUBJECT AND OBJECTIVES: Mystical literature has provided an extensive area in which the nature of religious language, as a common topic of philosophy and religion, can be considered from a mystical point of view as well.
Dr. Mirsaeid Mousavi Karimi (Iran) +1 more
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Philosophy of Pilgrimage of the Holy Prophets and Infallible People and its Effect on giving Meaning to Human Life [PDF]
International Multidisciplinary Journal of Pure Life, 2022 SUBJECT AND OBJECTIVES: The subject of this research is to explain the philosophy of pilgrimage of the Holy Prophets and infallible people and its effect on giving meaning to human life.
Hakimeh-Sadat Nateghi (Afghanistan) +1 more
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A Another Look at Thematization of Complement in English from Functional Linguistic Perspective
Transcultural Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2023 This paper tries to re-examine the issue of a new topic that is complements in English sentence construction in terms of Theme and Rheme. It presents an overview on the sentential complement as a universal linguistic phenomenon in natural languages ...
Ayad Al-Luhaibi, Riyadh Al-Jashami
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