LANGUAGE APPROACHES IN THE PUBLIC PRACTICE OF RELIGION

Liddicoat, Anthony J. (2014) LANGUAGE APPROACHES IN THE PUBLIC PRACTICE OF RELIGION. In: Proceedings of the International conference on language and religion quo-vadis language and literature in the religious life? Proceedings, 1 (1). Fakultas Adab dan Ilmu Budaya UIN Sunan Kalijaga, Yogyakarta, pp. 1-15. ISBN 978-602-1048-03-0

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Abstract

Religious institutions represent a very specific context in which decisions about language are made because language plays a role in religion that is different from its role in other areas of human activity. This difference lies in the ways particular religious groups understand the nature and purpose of language and these religious understandings influences how languages are chosen for religious purposes and how these purposes are understood. This paper will examine how religious groups use language in public acts of worship and the ways that religious views of language influence language practices. It will argue that there are two dominant understandings of language that are at play in religious contexts. The first is the idea of language as a sacred object. The second is language as a communicative tool. These two understandings are not mutually exclusive and both may be present in particular religious practices, although in some contexts one may predominate over the other. The paper will examine how these views play out in different world religions

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