Conceptual blending in early Christian discourse: a cognitive linguistic analysis of pastoral metaphors in patristic literature
Cognitive linguists and biblical and patristic scholars have recently given more attention to the presence of conceptual blends in early Christian texts, yet there has been so far no comprehensive study of the general role of conceptual blending as a generator of novel meanings in early Christianity...
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| Type de support: | Électronique Livre |
| Langue: | Anglais |
| Service de livraison Subito: | Commander maintenant. |
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| Fernleihe: | Fernleihe für die Fachinformationsdienste |
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Berlin Boston
De Gruyter
[2018]
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| Dans: | Année: 2018 |
| Sujets / Chaînes de mots-clés standardisés: | B
Troupeau
/ Pasteur
/ Église
/ Métaphore
/ Contamination (Syntaxe)
/ Pères de l'Église
/ Linguistique cognitive
B Pères de l'Église / Langage religieux / Métaphore / Linguistique cognitive |
| Sujets non-standardisés: | B
Patristique
B Pastorale B Christianisme primitif B Conceptual blends B Early Christian writers B Patristics B Christian literature, Early History and criticism B Blending-Theorie B Pastoral |
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Couverture Cover (Verlag) Volltext (lizenzpflichtig) |
| Édition parallèle: | Non-électronique
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| Résumé: | Cognitive linguists and biblical and patristic scholars have recently given more attention to the presence of conceptual blends in early Christian texts, yet there has been so far no comprehensive study of the general role of conceptual blending as a generator of novel meanings in early Christianity as a religious system with its own identity. This monograph points in that direction and is a cognitive linguistic exploration of pastoral metaphors in a wide range of patristic texts, presenting them as variants of THE CHURCH IS A FLOCK network. Such metaphors or blends, rooted in the Bible, were used by Patristic writers to conceptualize a great number of particular notions that were constitutive for the early church, including the responsibilities of the clergy and the laity, morality and penance, church unity, baptism and soteriology. This study shows how these blends became indispensable building blocks of a new religious system and explains the role of conceptual blending in this process. The book is addressed to biblical and patristic scholars interested in a new, unifying perspective for various strands of early Christian thought and to cognitive linguists interested in the role of conceptual integration in religious language. |
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| Type de support: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
| ISBN: | 311058297X |
| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1515/9783110582970 |