Rituals

doi:10.1017/9781108863957.013

13 - Rituals

Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 June 2021

Wei-lun Lu and

Svitlana Shurma

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Stephen Pihlaja

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Stephen Pihlaja: Affiliation:
Newman University

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Discusses ritual, using the concept of pragamemes to discuss idiomatic eulogies in Taiwanese funerals. The analysis looks specifically at how religious beliefs influence the construction of Buddhist and Christian phrases, with important difference in the conceptual metaphors the idioms employ.

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ritual religion language belief Taiwan funerals idioms embodied experience death

Type: Chapter
Information: Analysing Religious Discourse , pp. 217 - 234

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108863957.013 [Opens in a new window]

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Print publication year: 2021

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