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The European Union currently finds itself in the midst of its most
profound crises since its creation. In the minds and writings of
many commentators, politicians and European citizens, these
multiple contemporary crises call the very future of the European
project into doubt. Against the backdrop of economic and political
crises across the continent, this edited collection examines the
discursive workings and processes underpinning both the centrifugal
and the centripetal political forces currently reshaping Europe and
individual nation-states. This volume strikes an original balance
between inter-disciplinary work and a shared analytical engagement
with the different methodologies and conceptual approaches provided
by political linguistics. This is an edited collection that
explores the linguistic manifestations of the competing political
forces currently being negotiated within European nation-states and
between them. The chapters explore the different triggers,
dimensions and reactions to recent and current crises across a
range of European settings. Crises are thereby shown to give rise
to com-plex political fields, in which different assessments and
ideological blueprints compete for voters' attention and support.
Nationalism, as the currently most prominent political force, is
shown to require analyses capable of shedding light on its wider
contexts and its political competitors.
This unique volume focuses on religion and spirituality, along with
rituals, practices and symbols, discussed and analysed from a
semiotic perspective. It covers both cognitive and social
dimensions of religious practices and beliefs, various aspects of
spirituality, multiple forms of representation, as well as spheres
of religious beliefs and practices. The volume is an outcome of the
Signum-Idea-Verbum-Opus project initiated by Umberto Eco’s
keynote address during his visit at the University of Łódź in
2015. More theoretical insights and further explorations into
contemporary semiosphere can be found in Current Perspectives in
Semiotics: Signs, Signification and Communication and Current
Perspectives in Semiotics: Texts, Genres and Representations,
published by Peter Lang.
What is religion? How does it work? Many natural abilities of the
human mind are involved, and crucial among them is the ability to
use language. This volume brings together research from
linguistics, cognitive science and neuroscience, as well as from
religious studies, to understand the phenomena of religion as a
distinctly human enterprise. The book is divided into three parts,
each part preceded by a full introductory chapter by the editors
that discusses modern scientific approaches to religion and the
application of modern linguistics, particularly cognitive
linguistics and pragmatics. Part I surveys the development of
modern studies of religious language and the diverse disciplinary
strands that have emerged. Beginning with descriptive approaches to
religious language and the problem of describing religious concepts
across languages, chapters introduce the turn to cognition in
linguistics and also in theology, and explore the brain's
contrasting capacities, in particular its capacity for language and
metaphor. Part II continues the discussion of metaphor - the
natural ability by which humans draw on basic knowledge of the
world in order to explore abstractions and intangibles. Specialists
in particular religions apply conceptual metaphor theory in various
ways, covering several major religious traditions-Buddhism,
Christianity, Hinduism, Islam and Judaism. Part III seeks to open
up new horizons for cognitive-linguistic research on religion,
looking beyond written texts to the ways in which language is
integrated with other modalities, including ritual, religious art,
and religious electronic media. Chapters in Part III introduce
readers to a range of technical instruments that have been
developed within cognitive linguistics and discourse analysis in
recent years. What unfolds ultimately is the idea that the embodied
cognition of humans is the basis not only of their languages, but
also of their religions.
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