2021 Fiscal Year Annual Research Report
The Impact of globalization in religious discourse and the possibility of encouraging peaceful dialogue between religions
| Project/Area Number |
16KT0083
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| Research Institution | Hokkaido Bunkyo University |
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Principal Investigator |
リチャードソン ピーター 北海道文教大学, 国際学部, 教授 (90720623)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
長島 美織 北海道大学, メディア・コミュニケーション研究院, 教授 (20241391)
和田 雅子 藤女子大学, 人間生活学部, 教授 (40552881)
渡部 淳 北海道文教大学, 外国語学部, 教授 (50344528)
Mueller Charles 藤女子大学, 文学部, 教授 (50710498)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2016-07-19 – 2022-03-31
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| Keywords | Cognitive Linguistics / Discourse Analysis / metaphor / religion / language |
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| Outline of Annual Research Achievements |
The first paper we published was a study of Buddhist and Christian texts. We focused on the use of modals, such as "will" and "should", and how they were used in the two corpora. Our results suggested that the Christian texts contained more examples of positive compulsion and used language that was more emphatic. In contrast, the Buddhist texts used language that used hedging and was more suspicious of black and white statements of absolute truth. The second published paper was a study of a debate between an atheist and a Christian. We looked at the use of metaphor, metonymy, and force and concluded that the discourse could be described as a tug of war between competing conceptualizations. The function of figurative language in this debate was the building of images of competing ways of looking at reality.
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