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Publication details [#58554]

Sriniwass, Sridevi. 2014. The construction of meanings in relation to language and religion: a study into the Mahabharata. International Journal of the Sociology of Language 229 : 131–158.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
De Gruyter

Annotation

This study explores how the semiotic resource of language is deployed to generate meanings with respect to language and religion in a specific narrative religious text, the classic Indian "Mahabharata”, and how knowledge expansion in this field can add to crosscultural comprehension.