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Publication details [#2276]

Coleman, Linda. 1980. The language of 'born-again' christianity. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society 6 : 133–142.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

evangelical | mutual knowledge | religious language

Annotation

C. considers an area in which the Evangelical worldview (and some social constraints stemming from it) affects syntax; then she points out some of the ways in which both the worldview and pragmatic assumptions of shared knowledge affect semantics.