Author ORCID Identifier
Date Available
7-30-2020
Year of Publication
2020
Document Type
Master's Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Arts in Linguistic Theory and Typology (MALTT)
College
Arts and Sciences
Department/School/Program
Linguistics
Advisor
Dr. Rusty Barrett
Abstract
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.
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.13023/etd.2020.377
Funding Information
Graduate Research Fellowship, University of Kentucky Center for Equality and Social Justice (August 2019 - July 2020)
Recommended Citation
Kibbey, Tyler Everett, "Vox et Silentium Dei: A Socio-Cognitive Linguistic Theory of Religious Violence" (2020). Theses and Dissertations--Linguistics. 36.
https://uknowledge.uky.edu/ltt_etds/36
