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Pragmatic Features Of Prayer, Rebekah True

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Abstract

Despite the lack of research in the linguistic field pertaining to Christian prayer, this study seeks to understand the pragmatic features of prayer specifically in a university context for Christian students. The results of this study show that there are three key types of speech acts that are used in prayers: directives, expressives, and assertives. These speech acts reveal the structure and content of the prayers. Alongside this finding, the participants chose to address God in unique ways which included using names of God as filler words as well as preferring one name of God over another for the …

The Speech Act Of Naming In Context: A Linguistic Study Of Naming In The Old Testament, Lauren Yost

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This research sought to study the act of naming in the context of the Old Testament using speech act theory. To analyze naming as presented in the Old Testament, I first studied the Hebrew words qārāʾ and šēm, creating from my findings the following extended definition: (naming is) the act of giving a name within particular specified circumstances by one with authority over the name-receiver, whose authority is respected by others such that the name spoken is hence used to identify and represent the receiver. This, along with an understanding of Alston (2000) and the example of Arcadi (2013), …