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
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12253103 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Inger Askehave (Aarhus School of Business Inger Askehave, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2004 |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 5-31 |
| Publication date | 2004-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Discourse & Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0957-9265 • E-ISSN: 1460-3624 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0957926504038941 |
| OpenAlex | W2020790202 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 13 |
| References cited | 8 |
Recent years have seen a growing interest in the areas of metaphysics, spiritualism, psychotherapy and the like. New Age concepts such as ‘transcendence’, ‘self-realization’, ‘meditation’ and ‘holism’ (which in the 1960s were restricted to the hippies and their mind-expanding drugs) have now become fully accepted, widely acknowledged and, not least, used by people both inside and outside the New Age community. In the wake of this ‘popularization’ of New Age, a paradigmatic shift seems to take place in our society in general where traditional rationalistic thinking is replaced by, or at least fused with, a more irrational, emotional, and intuitive approach to argumentation. The aim of this article is to uncover the origins of this emotional and intuitive rhetoric. More specifically, I shall analyse the discourse of the spiritual self-help book and discuss the reflex of New Age ideology on language itself
Epistemology · Individuation · Irrational number · Linguistics · Meditation · Psychoanalysis · Rhetoric · Sociology · Counseling, Therapy, and Family Dynamics · Hermeneutics and Narrative Identity · Philosophy · Pragmatism in Philosophy and Education · Psychology · Social Psychology
Self-Help Title
From Temples to Organizations
Communicating the social sciences
Routledge Handbook of Public Communication of Science and Technology
Contemporary Self-Help Literature
La autoayuda y el consumo de dispositivos psíquicos en el caso de la Innovación
The coordinate structures in a corpus of New Age talks
What is “old” and “past” in New Age discourse? A qualitative analysis of corpus evidence
New Age Radio Journalism
A Slovene president's self-help discourse
Values that stories in self-improvement books promote
Truths that Set Us Free?’
From Getting Ahead to Getting Back on One's Feet
| Citations per year | 0.68 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2007 - 2020 (14) |
| Highly cited | No |