Publications

Publication details [#39281]

Askehave, Inger. 2004. If Language is a Game - These are the Rules: A Search into the Rhetoric of the Spiritual Self-Help Book If Life is a Game - These are the Rules. Discourse & Society 15 (1) : 5–31.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

ideology | language for special purposes | language game | rhetoric

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

This paper examines the discourse of spiritual self-help books and discusses the impact of New Age ideology on language itself.