Discussing the Faith: Multilingual and Metalinguistic Conversations about Religion

Linda Sauer Bredvik

Published by De Gruyter 2020

Discussing the Faith

Multilingual and Metalinguistic Conversations about Religion

Linda Sauer Bredvik

Volume 25 in the series Diskursmuster / Discourse Patterns

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110700749

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About this book

Encounters between people of diverse religious faiths and worldviews are becoming more common in an increasingly globalized and mobile world. Research has not, however, kept pace by investigating how people talk about their faith with others who believe differently.

This monograph addresses that deficit by taking an emergent path, combining qualitative and quantitative analysis to investigate and understand multilingual speakers' discursive behaviors in multiparty interreligious dialogues. Using 33 hours of recordings from conversations across seven research sites, Sauer Bredvik investigates how speakers’ multilanguaging practices interact with other indexical and referential signs (unfilled pauses, disfluency, pragmatic markers) to affect how constitute messages are understood. By combining corpus-assisted discourse analysis with emic data taken from observation and 11 hours of participant interviews, one is able to identify distinct patterns of use between these metalinguistic indicators and a dialogue outcome.

Readers will gain an understanding of how people of various linguistic and faith backgrounds use all their semiotic resources to display hospitality and respect for the Other in multilingual, multifaith settings.

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Linda Sauer Bredvik, Heidelberg University.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	IX
Tables and Graphs Publicly Available Download PDF	XI
Transcription Conventions Publicly Available Download PDF	XIII
1 Lived Religion and Everyday Language Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
2 Foundations and a Framework Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	15
3 Collecting Data in medias res Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	41
4 Silence Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	62
5 Multilanguaging and Linguistic Hospitality Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	84
6 Creating Communicative Effectiveness Through Disfluency Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	122
7 Pragmatic Markers and Trajectories Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	140
8 Linguistic Resources for a Shared Cup of Coffee Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	170
Appendix 1—Professional Trajectory Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	179
Appendix 2—Personal Trajectory Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	183
Appendix 3—Platform Trajectory Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	187
Appendix 4—Interviews Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	189
Appendix 5 – MLI Data by Dialogue Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	191
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(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Pages
- Front matter: 14
- Main content: 211
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 3
- Coloured Illustrations: 1
- Tables: 7
- Coloured Tables: 3
Keywords: Interactional Sociolinguistics; Discourse Analysis; Linguistic Anthropology; Interreligious Dialogues; Multifaith Encounters

eBook

Published: October 12, 2020
ISBN: 9783110700749

Hardcover

Published: October 12, 2020
ISBN: 9783110700695