Ridealgh, Kim ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1051-2339 (2021) Talking to God: Conceptualizing an alternative politeness approach for the human/divine relationship. Journal of Politeness Research-Language Behaviour Culture, 17 (1). pp. 61-78. ISSN 1612-5681
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Abstract
The human/divine relationship is a dynamic that does not easily fit into existing politeness research frameworks and approaches. This paper will look to explore this relationship further, within the ancient Egyptian Late Ramesside Letters (c. 1099-1069 BCE), in order to explore the limitations of facework and ritual in fully exploring the phenomenon, and offer an alternative approach-the 'community-embedded' model-which expands on principles from both facework and ritual, as well as collective prayer. The use here of the 'community-embedded' approach allows for the analysis of the impact of utterances to and involving God (the divine entity who assumes this role in the communicative interaction) within wider social networks, and how this supports simultaneous relationship maintenance between humans, God, and larger networks specific to the culture under review.
Item Type: | Article |
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Additional Information: | Early title: Talking to God: Facework, Social Rituals, and the Late Ramesside Letters |
Uncontrolled Keywords: | god relationship,late ramesside letters,facework,religious ritual,social ritual,social psychology,cultural studies,language and linguistics,communication,linguistics and language ,/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/3200/3207 |
Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Arts and Humanities > School of Politics, Philosophy, Language and Communication Studies (former - to 2024) |
UEA Research Groups: | Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > Language and Communication Studies Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > Area Studies |
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Depositing User: | LivePure Connector |
Date Deposited: | 27 Oct 2020 01:01 |
Last Modified: | 27 Nov 2024 10:27 |
URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/77434 |
DOI: | 10.1515/pr-2020-0027 |
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